Mr. Speaker! We Need To Get Back To Benghazi

[RobDownSouth]

I take it to mean there are better tools on the "Select" committee.

Bigger tools, certainly.

But better?

 

[zipman]

The report that counts is the Select Committee report on Benghazi. They have better tools to get to the truth.

LOL, do you think any of us thought you had to the integrity to admit you were wrong?

And you still won't when the next "report" comes out. Because you couldn't care less about the truth. As usual.

 

[Pookie]

Bigger tools, certainly.

But better?

A tool is a tool. They all blow their loads and go soft eventually. Some make bigger messes than others is all.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

The report that counts is the Select Committee report on Benghazi. They have better tools to get to the truth.

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[cjh]

We'll have no idea what really happened until Sheriff Joe Arpaio's posse gets on the case.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

We'll have no idea what really happened until Sheriff Joe Arpaio's posse gets on the case.

This might just cost the taxpayers $500B a day before it's over.

No more state trips to India, that's for sure!

 

[AllyRose]

Ah yes. Lindsey "We'll all get killed" Graham.

The report... the reports wrong! It's... it's cause... it's cause you can't handle the truth!

 

[sigh]

Ironically, the Speaker did get back to Benghazi, but what he found might just convince Hillary to officially jump into the 2016 race. I doubt that's the result Boehner (or vette) was hoping for.

 

[zipman]

We'll have no idea what really happened until Sheriff Joe Arpaio's posse gets on the case.

You just nailed it. Nicely done.

 

[Que Va]

Ironically, the Speaker did get back to Benghazi, but what he found might just convince Hillary to officially jump into the 2016 race. I doubt that's the result Boehner (or vette) was hoping for.

Hillary was not even interviewed about the incident by her own State Department's internal review. Hillary has succeeded in not saying much about the incident, except the ever-quotable, "What difference does it make?"

Since the leftist partisans have already overlooked the part of that report with scathing indictment of security lapses that were known or should have been known by her personally, nothing is gained by making a martyr out of her. I say be a neutral as possible until the Democrats have all their eggs in that basket.

Let her whine that her failures are just the ramblings of the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" arrayed against her.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Hillary was not even interviewed about the incident by her own State Department's internal review. Hillary has succeeded in not saying much about the incident, except the ever-quotable, "What difference does it make?"

Since the leftist partisans have already overlooked the part of that report with scathing indictment of security lapses that were known or should have been known by her personally, nothing is gained by making a martyr out of her. I say be a neutral as possible until the Democrats have all their eggs in that basket.

Let her whine that her failures are just the ramblings of the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" arrayed against her.

And yet that "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" has never said word one about the failure of their guy to protect this country from the worst terrorist attack in its history after he ignored six months of daily warnings.

Nor did they go on a rampage and demand every single piece of paper they could lay their hands on or demand he give testimony on how he failed so miserably, instead giving him a free pass and rallying round the chant, "USA! USA!".

Apparently a one off event which no one had any warning about is much more significant than ignoring daily warnings of an impending attack and doing nothing about it.

 

[Que Va]

And yet that "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" has never said word one about the failure of their guy to protect this country from the worst terrorist attack in its history after he ignored six months of daily warnings.

Nor did they go on a rampage and demand every single piece of paper they could lay their hands on or demand he give testimony on how he failed so miserably, instead giving him a free pass and rallying round the chant, "USA! USA!".

Apparently a one off event which no one had any warning about is much more significant than ignoring daily warnings of an impending attack and doing nothing about it.

GREAT idea. Run against a 15 year -old event... Especially when her husband would not green-light killing Bin Laden in Africa. Let's go back 20 years shall we? Oh, that's right it'll make her seem old to discuss ancient history.

Keep repeating those tired memes. Worked great in the 2014 election. Find some line of crap that worked once and keep repeating it.

Remind me, other than marrying Bill, and staying married to him, what were her accomplishments?

What were her accomplishments at State? Tough question? How about "What was her accomplishment, singular?"

What actually happened when the event foretold in HER campaign commercial about that 3:00am call?

Both she and her opponent in that commercial don't want to actually say where they were, what they said, and what was decided.

 

[NickiC]

We actually don't. Republicans defunded the CIA for Benghazi. Go home get a new issue. When did you people become crazy? Orange Juice drunk needs a life. I don't like any party but a true balance would be nice.

 

[RobDownSouth]

We actually don't. Republicans defunded the CIA for Benghazi. Go home get a new issue. When did you people become crazy? Orange Juice drunk needs a life. I don't like any party but a true balance would be nice.

That's been the true "scandal" here: the Republican senators who gutted funding for security in Benghazi (solely to embarass Hillary Clinton politically) are now the same Republican senators demanding "answers".

 

[doctor_insanus]

GREAT idea. Run against a 15 year -old event... Especially when her husband would not green-light killing Bin Laden in Africa. Let's go back 20 years shall we? Oh, that's right it'll make her seem old to discuss ancient history.

Keep repeating those tired memes. Worked great in the 2014 election. Find some line of crap that worked once and keep repeating it.

Remind me, other than marrying Bill, and staying married to him, what were her accomplishments?

What were her accomplishments at State? Tough question? How about "What was her accomplishment, singular?"

What actually happened when the event foretold in HER campaign commercial about that 3:00am call?

Both she and her opponent in that commercial don't want to actually say where they were, what they said, and what was decided.

Says the guy whose every post is a rehash of discredited memes.

Benghazi was manufactured bullshit from the start, and the Republicans knew it.

Your rant doesn't change that.

 

[Que Va]

Says the guy whose every post is a rehash of discredited memes.

Benghazi was manufactured bullshit from the start, and the Republicans knew it.

Your rant doesn't change that.

Who manufactured what?

That's been the true "scandal" here: the Republican senators who gutted funding for security in Benghazi (solely to embarass Hillary Clinton politically) are now the same Republican senators demanding "answers".

What bill was it that specified the funding in Benghazi as opposed to say, Rome?

We actually don't. Republicans defunded the CIA for Benghazi. Go home get a new issue. When did you people become crazy? Orange Juice drunk needs a life. I don't like any party but a true balance would be nice.

Always refreshing to hear those who "don't like any party" repeating the talking points of the White House press secretary.

 

[phrodeau]

GREAT idea. Run against a 15 year -old event... Especially when her husband would not green-light killing Bin Laden in Africa. Let's go back 20 years shall we? Oh, that's right it'll make her seem old to discuss ancient history.

Keep repeating those tired memes. Worked great in the 2014 election. Find some line of crap that worked once and keep repeating it.

Remind me, other than marrying Bill, and staying married to him, what were her accomplishments?

What were her accomplishments at State? Tough question? How about "What was her accomplishment, singular?"

What actually happened when the event foretold in HER campaign commercial about that 3:00am call?

Both she and her opponent in that commercial don't want to actually say where they were, what they said, and what was decided.

Who manufactured what?



What bill was it that specified the funding in Benghazi as opposed to say, Rome?



Always refreshing to hear those who "don't like any party" repeating the talking points of the White House press secretary.

The report said there was no wrongdoing, and all you have is more questions.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

GREAT idea. Run against a 15 year -old event... Especially when her husband would not green-light killing Bin Laden in Africa. Let's go back 20 years shall we? Oh, that's right it'll make her seem old to discuss ancient history.

Actually, Clinton really, really wanted to get Bin Laden... And for his troubles he was accused of being obsessed and attempting to "wag the dog" by the Republicans in Congress attempting to impeach him at the time.

But don't let anything like reality intrude on your diatribe there.

 

[Que Va]

The report said there was no wrongdoing, and all you have is more questions.

What line says "no wrongdoing?

The comittiees statement on the report is"

For over two years, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence exhaustively investigated the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi Libya. We spent thousands of hours asking questions, poring over documents, reviewing intelligence assessments, reading cables and emails, and held a total of 20 Committee events and hearings. We conducted detailed interviews with senior intelligence officials from Benghazi and Tripoli as well as eight security personnel on the ground in Benghazi that night. Based on the testimony and the documents we reviewed, we concluded that all the CIA officers in Benghazi were heroes. Their actions saved lives.

From Powerline:

The Committee states that, according to CIA security personnel, State Department security agents repeatedly said they were ill-equipped and ill-trained to contend with the threat environment in Benghazi. Indeed, they knew well before the attacks that they could not defend the State Department’s facility against an armed assault.

This is "no wrongdoing?"

Just because the committee went out of its way to be more than fair to the administration and to draw no conclusion from conflicting information and statements does not exonerate anyone.

Actually, Clinton really, really wanted to get Bin Laden... And for his troubles he was accused of being obsessed and attempting to "wag the dog" by the Republicans in Congress attempting to impeach him at the time.

But don't let anything like reality intrude on your diatribe there.

So those mean Republicans intimidated him from green-lighting the raid, did it? The Republicans were dead-set on not retaliating for the USS Cole?

Really?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Hillary was not even interviewed about the incident by her own State Department's internal review. Hillary has succeeded in not saying much about the incident, except the ever-quotable, "What difference does it make?"

Since the leftist partisans have already overlooked the part of that report with scathing indictment of security lapses that were known or should have been known by her personally, nothing is gained by making a martyr out of her. I say be a neutral as possible until the Democrats have all their eggs in that basket.

Let her whine that her failures are just the ramblings of the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" arrayed against her.

The report had plenty of talking points for both sides.

Bottom line though is once again, the administration looked us in the eye and lied for political gain.

 

[Que Va]

The report had plenty of talking points for both sides.

Bottom line though is once again, the administration looked us in the eye and lied for political gain.

The thing that was impressive about the committee was they LET the Democrats get out ahead of the report, LET them set the narrative, LET them characterize the conclusions and stayed out of it.

Let the Select Committee address the inconstancies. The left is setting their feet in concrete that Hilary has been "exonerated" when she was barely even asked about the security failure, the pleading for security upgrades.

The idiot Lindsy Graham should have just let the left gloat. Look at Phrodeaus characterization. That is what the left should be made to repeat, over and over again. "Found no evidence" means, "Let Trey Gowdy deal with this stonewalling."

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

So those mean Republicans intimidated him from green-lighting the raid, did it? The Republicans were dead-set on not retaliating for the USS Cole?

Really?

Yeah, really.. But not just with Bin Laden.. But with Iraq, and Kosovo as well. In fact any time Clinton tried to do anything he was met with the same tropes. Actually, it sounds like pretty familiar fare for a GOP Congress toward a Democratic President.

Rep. Dick Armey, GOP Majority Leader
"The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack [on Iraq] is itself a powerful argument for impeachment," Armey said in a statement. "After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons."

Rep. Gerald Solomon (R - NY)
"It is obvious that they're (the Clinton White House) doing everything they can to postpone the vote on this impeachment in order to try to get whatever kind of leverage they can, and the American people ought to be as outraged as I am about it," Solomon said in an interview with CNN. Asked if he was accusing Clinton of playing with American lives for political expediency, Solomon said, "Whether he knows it or not, that's exactly what he's doing."

Sen. Dan Coats
Coats, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement, "While there is clearly much more we need to learn about this attack [on Osama bin Laden] and why it was ordered today, given the president's personal difficulties this week, it is legitimate to question the timing of this action."

Sen. Larry Craig, U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee
The foregoing review of the Clinton Administration's prevarications on Kosovo would not be complete without a brief look at one other possible factor in the deepening morass. Consider the following fictional situation: A president embroiled in a sex scandal that threatens to bring down his administration. He sees the only way out in distracting the nation and the world with a foreign military adventure. So, he orders his spin-doctors and media wizards to get to work. They survey the options, push a few buttons, and decide upon a suitable locale: Albania.

Sen. Trent Lott, GOP Majority Leader
"I cannot support this military action in the Persian Gulf at this time," Lott said in a statement. "Both the timing and the policy are subject to question."

Rep. Tillie Folwer (R-Fla)
"It is certainly rather suspicious timing," said Rep. Tillie Fowler (R-Florida). "I think the president is shameless in what he would do to stay in office."

Where were these "Patriots" when G.W. Bush marched us into Iraq? Why did it suddenly become "Unpatriotic" to question W's motives when it obviously wasn't to question his predecessor, and most definitely hasn't been for his successor?

As far as your Powerline nugget: Who was it that repeatedly cut funding for the State Department even after being told, repeatedly, that it would affect security?

 

[Que Va]

Bill Clinton 2002:

So we tried to be quite aggressive with them [al Qaeda]. We got – well, Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we’d been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, ’cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn’t and that’s how he wound up in Afghanistan.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Truth trumps bullshit eh.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The howls and cat-calls no longer matter.

The Gruber has spoken and a large part of the voting electorate no longer sees this administration as honest. Hillary was part of that administration during the biggest of the lies and as such will be attacked by people like Webb and the Cherokee in the primaries (Barack even turned it into another one of his famous car lines when he joked with a straight face about Hillary, people want that new car smell). It is doubtful that she will ascend to her throne. While Nixon and Reagan were given a second bite at the apple, the Democrat Party is a different creature and just keeps presenting candidates with as little actual history as possible in order to maintain a plausible deniability as to their actual ideology. If there is an old saw, it is always in the VP slot...

They're always "New and Improved!"