The cost of GOP’s Benghazi hysteria: Why the U.S. is really pulling out of Yemen
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The reasons behind U.S. withdrawal
What explains the withdrawal is the veiled threat that Congress will hobble the State and Defense Departments with investigations as arbitrary, burdensome and costly as the Benghazi hearings every time someone sets fire to a U.S. base or captured U.S. personnel appear in garish jump suits kneeling on video in front of knife-wielding psychopaths.
So long as there is any remote possibility of political advantage to them, Congress will conduct sham investigations.
It is true that part of the job of Congress is to exercise oversight. But few believe the purpose of the Benghazi hearings is oversight as opposed to an opportunity to steal airtime to make insinuations about the Secretary of State — in other words, the cynical use of political power to discredit Hilary Clinton as a presidential candidate.
Republican sponsors of the more than a dozen Benghazi hearings by five Congressional committees argue their investigation is no sham — even if the hearings have consistently refuted every accusation that the Obama Administration ignored warnings, failed to defend the post, or in any other way misbehaved before, during or after the attack.
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/31/the_cost_of_gops_benghazi_hysteria_why_the_u_s_is_really_pulling_out_of_yemen_partner/
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