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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWaPo: The Benghazi panel is a scandal of a committee
WaPo: The Benghazi panel is a scandal of a committeeWhat is this committee after? Its not clear. Clinton was no more in charge of State Department security than she was of building maintenance. She was not chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and so could not have given the order not to attempt a rescue. (No rescue was practical anyway.) It was Susan Rice, not Clinton, who made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows giving a mangled account of what happened. Does the committee (in its wisdom) have the two women mixed up?
I understand that Clinton has botched this entire e-mail controversy. (I ask people about that, too.) She should never have used a private server in the first place, but it was apparently legal to do so. Nonetheless, her explanations have been all over the place, beginning with her reasons for doing so not wanting to carry two devices. (What are aides for, anyway?)
If Clinton were more forthright, she might my guess here admit that she used a private server because she didnt want her every thought to wind up in the hands of her political enemies. As if to prove the truth of the cliche that even paranoids have enemies, thats precisely whats happened.
Benghazi has become a Republican fixation. It is mentioned with utmost solemnity, virtual code for treason or something close to it. It is no longer an event, a debacle and a tragedy, but a totem: Something went wrong. Someones at fault. Why not Clinton? In the latest Republican debate, Carly Fiorina, she of the hallucinatory abortion procedure, accused Clinton of having a track record of lying about Benghazi. Yeah, sure. But give us an example, please.
The true Benghazi scandal is not what happened on the Libyan coast, but the use of a congressional committee for political purposes to damage the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, by rummaging through her e-mails. Shes handled this all wrong, but she shouldnt have had to handle it at all.
Bingo on all accounts.
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WaPo: The Benghazi panel is a scandal of a committee (Original Post)
portlander23
Sep 2015
OP
Bingo on one account. Bango on the other. How does the obvious sameness of the propaganda
Fred Sanders
Sep 2015
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. Bingo on one account. Bango on the other. How does the obvious sameness of the propaganda
between EGazhi and BGazhi elude any one who values truth over propaganda?
Gothmog
(145,353 posts)2. Howdy Gowdy is even more unethical than Issa
UTUSN
(70,715 posts)3. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
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Artist: Mel Brooks Lyrics
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The Inquisition (What show)
The Inquisition (Here we go)
We know youre wishing that wed go away
But the Inquisitions here and its here to stay
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Archae
(46,337 posts)5. Does anyone else think of Jim Traficant when they see that Gowdy guy?
Or Zippy the Pinhead?
kairos12
(12,862 posts)6. Gowdy's hair looks like he got swirled in a toilet.
spanone
(135,848 posts)4. it is about destroying the presidential run of Hillary Clinton. nothing more. nothing less.
and they're using taxpayer money to do it.
fuck the committee.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)7. Kangaroos have been protesting this committee.
spanone
(135,848 posts)8. bwahahahahaaaaaa
kairos12
(12,862 posts)9. He/she looks not amused.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)10. The only people on that committee who merit praise are the Democrats.
I know there was talk about boycotting this farce completely. I'm glad they didn't. It's better to have people on the inside who can keep track of every bit of foolishness.
The Democrats who agree to serve are taking one for the team. I'm sure they'd all rather be spending their time on serious legislative pursuits.
fbc
(1,668 posts)11. There should be a Committee to investigate the Benghazi Committees
The amount of money wasted on these committees is scandalous.