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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald never passes up an opportunity to take a crack at Pres. Obama [View all]Marr
(20,317 posts)His point was very clear. He said that, since the event occurred in the weeks leading up to the election, the Romney campaign had seized on it as a political cudgel, and that some of the Obama Administration's public statements had been inaccurate, and at least partly politically motivated as well. I think that much is pretty clearly true.
He said that any time the government is making statements that are counter to reality, it ought to be investigated. He didn't say he supported the circus that the GOP has predictably turned it into, or that it was some Watergate-esque coverup. He said an investigation had been warranted-- which it was.
All this was said in the context of Bill Maher insisting that there had never been a question to answer. I agreed with Greenwald that he was wrong in that. I feel it's ludicrously well-settled at this point, but there it is.