Bill Press: Benghazi hearing is a sham

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From The Hill:

It’s not rocket science that’s missing in Washington today — it’s just plain common sense. And common sense would tell House Republicans to pull the plug on Thursday’s hearing of the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

After the display of disarray among House Republicans over the last few weeks, nobody would accuse them of being super smart. But who would have thought they were dumb enough to go forward with this hearing, where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be questioned about the 2012 attack in Libya, after its entire purported purpose has been so badly undermined?

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Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) should realize they’ve already lost this battle and Hillary Clinton has won it. When it’s over, no matter how hard Republicans pile on, they’ll only look worse — and Clinton will only look better.
Let’s start with the fact that there was no need for any Select Committee on Benghazi in the first place. That ground had already been plowed over and over again by the House Oversight Committee under the purview of then-Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), as well as other committees.

According to Politico, even before Boehner created the Select Committee, Benghazi had already been the subject of 13 congressional hearings, 25,000 pages of documents and 50 briefings — none of which uncovered any wrongdoing on Clinton’s part. In fact, a bipartisan report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded, “There were no efforts by the White House or any other executive branch entities to ‘cover-up’ facts or make alterations for political purposes.”

Read it all here:http://thehill.com/opinion/bill-press/257351-bill-press-benghazi-hearing-is-a-sham

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1. republicans are rabid dogs. they never pass up a chance to chase down a Clinton...

or any democrat for that matter