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In reply to the discussion: Anyone else starting to get the feeling that Issa is the AP leaker? [View all]DevonRex
(22,541 posts)He has inserted himself into Benghazi. And we know that Romney got tipped off sooner than he should have that night, went on live TV with a prepared speech. About Chaffetz, head of Homeland Security committee in the House, from Utah, from Wiki:
Benghazi Attack
Chaffetz has been outspoken against the White House and State Departments handling of the attacks on the Libyan Embassy. The Administration first stated the attacks were sparked by a spontaneous protest, then later stated the violence was a planned terrorist attack. "There was a very conscious decision made, I believe my personal opinion is that they wanted the appearance of 'normalization' there in Libya and building up of an infrastructure, putting up barbed wire on our facility would lead to the wrong impression. Something that this administration didnt want to have moving forward."[48]
He has criticized UN Ambassadors Susan Rices initial comments calling them somewhere between an outrageous lie and total falsehood.[48]
Chaffetz himself has been criticized for politicizing the Benghazi incident, acknowledging in an interview with CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien that he had "voted to cut the funding for embassy security" and that House Republicans had consciously voted to reduce the funds allocated to the State Department for embassy security since winning the majority in 2010. "Absolutely," Chaffetz said. "Look we have to make priorities and choices in this country."[49]
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Chaffetz