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glennward

(989 posts)
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 10:51 AM Jun 2016

This good-cop bad-cop BS by Gawdy and his GOP Benghazi swift boat is shameful.

Not putting smear innuendo in the official report but allowing nasty, innuendo to be spewed by the rest of the committee is just so transparent to any thinking people. Sadly, a lot of unthinking people will be listening to the GOP tell them how to think about the report and they will be voting. They have almost stooped to blaming Chris
Stevens for being over zealous about Libya.

I hope the Dems have a good team to come out and set the record straight.

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This good-cop bad-cop BS by Gawdy and his GOP Benghazi swift boat is shameful. (Original Post) glennward Jun 2016 OP
That's exactly what Goober-Gowdy's committee is - an attempt at swiftboating using taxpayer $$$. BlueCaliDem Jun 2016 #1
So now Stevens is styled as "overzealous" instead Hortensis Jun 2016 #2
What a disgusting display ... I can't believe the unmitigated gall Greywing Jun 2016 #3
+1, ESPECIALLY after the GOP has already intimated they're doing this to drive down her numbers!!! uponit7771 Jun 2016 #4

BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
1. That's exactly what Goober-Gowdy's committee is - an attempt at swiftboating using taxpayer $$$.
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 10:54 AM
Jun 2016

God forbid they use their own money to smear a strong and good Democratic SoS and Democratic President for political advantage.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. So now Stevens is styled as "overzealous" instead
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 11:06 AM
Jun 2016

of a stupid, helpless victim? At least some might consider it less insulting. Sure, in hindsight he made a mistake staying long enough in an unsecured place for one of the many militia groups (there are way over a thousand in Libya) to mount an attack, instead of heading back to the mini-fortress all our embassies are, but he was a fine man who always did more, not less.

"This report has never been about one person. ... The media wants [sic] to make this about one person. The Democrats want to make this about one person. That's never been our intent." Lol. Lying scum-sucking sleazebags.

Greywing

(1,124 posts)
3. What a disgusting display ... I can't believe the unmitigated gall
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 11:12 AM
Jun 2016

This was never about one person .... BS!!! Don't forget this was not the only "Benghazi" committee. It has been a partizan witch hunt from the beginning. The fact is there has never been any evidence of wrong doing PERIOD!

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