Boehner Does Damage Control: Benghazi Probe Was 'Never' About Clinton

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I had this thought before I read this that Boehner could leave Congress on a high note by disbanding the Benghazi committee before he leaves. Wishful thinking. Instead he steps into the poop deeper.



Boehner Does Damage Control: Benghazi Probe Was 'Never' About Clinton
Listen up, Kevin McCarthy.

Laura Barron-Lopez
Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post

Posted: 10/01/2015 12:30 PM EDT | Edited: 5 hours ago


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Alex Wong/Getty Images Speaker John Boehner tried to walk back comments from others in his party about the Select Committee on Benghazi.

WASHINGTON -- Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) started damage control on Thursday, seeking to quell calls for Republicans to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Boehner's likely successor, had praised the committee -- which was established to investigate the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya -- for hurting 2016 Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's poll numbers.

Democrats jumped at the comments, calling for Boehner to immediately disband the committee and accusing Republicans of creating it for the sole purpose of attacking the former secretary of state during her bid for the White House.

“This investigation has never been about former Secretary of State Clinton and never will be," Boehner said in a statement Thursday. "Indeed, the Select Committee’s very existence is only the result of the Obama administration’s obstruction of routine congressional investigations and its failure to properly comply with subpoenas and document requests."

The statement is further evidence of the slip-up McCarthy made, which has also been criticized by members of his own party as "inappropriate." ..............

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1. And the email story is made up, no there there.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Was there no audience to boo Boehner off the stage...or was it just another GOP rehab by mass media?

Politicians should be forced to make all their public policy ststements before the public, not just TV cameras in a safe studio.

[riversedge]

3. see this tweet about the RNCC..raising $$ off of Benghazi scam....

BJ ?@Plantflowes 3h3 hours ago

@HuffPostPol Boehner lies. This is what RNCC running today on website

[Fred Sanders]

4. How long until they delete that? It will be days before the crack mass media research teams find

what you just did - another smoking gun!

"Let's go after Obama and Hillary"?? "Help us fight THEM now"??? Double barrelled smoking guns!

Nice catch, maybe make it an OP?!