Mr. Speaker! We Need To Get Back To Benghazi

[RobDownSouth]

When the Select Committee's report details the same findings as the House Intel Committee then you will be among the first to call for a Permanent Committee to investigate ad nauseum. Because they Select Committee WILL have the same findings, after making a whole lot of noise about nothing. Because in reality, they can't do anything else without making the House leadership, and the House Intel Committee (also lead be Republicans) look like morons. Trey Gowdy's "investigation" will be all sound and fury but in the end signify nothing.

Have they managed to publish a calendar yet? You know, of when they expect to start these investigations? Last thing I heard from them was at the end of July and still no idea when they were actually going to start meeting let alone "investigating". Should we set aside some time for mid to late 2015. You know, so they have some time to gin up some outrage before the Presidential elections.

Gowdy's committee has all the makings of a "star chamber", with a stacked Republican deck and only Republicans having the subpoena authority. That sort of perversion has enormous appeal to haters like the Vettebigot.

 

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[Busybody]

why are LIBZ talking Ben Gazi?

Get over it

MOVEON!

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#Old "News"

 

[Busybody]

I think

Obola and Cunt Clinton should be strafed

Be done with it

what a fuck up Lib YEAH! was

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Six investigations ternt bubkes and Vette is still stroking his choad for a load, I mean god damn!

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[RobDownSouth]

If you are right, I will concede the argument.

Quoting for laughs.

You lack the personal honor to admit when you are mistaken.

You always have an excuse.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

I was only wrong once, and that's because I thought I was wrong but later found out I was right.

Tell us again how Drudge Report is the number #1 news site on teh Internet, if you squint reeeeeeally hard.

Tell us again how Frank Zappa was always stoned on drugs.

 

[Que Va]

Always #WhatMattersMost. Always.

 

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[cowslinger64]

What other news aggregation website got 22,000,000 hits in the last 24 hours?

He was stoned from time to time, as were members of his band.

That's not what you said, AJ.

 

[Que Va]

Always #WhatMattersMost. Always.

 

[RobDownSouth]

What other news aggregation website got 22,000,000 hits in the last 24 hours?

He was stoned from time to time, as were members of his band.

Notice, folks, how the cowardly Marine not-so-subtly moves the goalposts. If he didn't do that, he might have to take responsibility for his misstatements, and if there's one thing we've learned from him over the years, it's that Vietnam-era Marines NEVER take responsibility for ANYTHING.

 

[Que Va]

Anyway to figure out who was working Marine recruiting stations in Georgia around 1982? I'd like to shake that man's hand for the load of butt-hurt he delivered with that rejection.

 

[KingOrfeo]

From Salon:

Monday, Nov 24, 2014 02:14 PM EST

GOP’s Benghazi nightmare: How they intend to repurpose the entire government over idiocy

Conservatives know in their hearts that Benghazi is a huge cover-up -- no matter what the evidence says

Simon Maloy

The grand, sprawling, all-consuming Benghazi conspiracy continues to expand and metastasize, swallowing up more and more people and agencies as it makes steady, inexorable progress towards its ultimate goal: repurposing the entire U.S. government so that its primary function becomes the suppression of the TRUTH about Benghazi.

As you may have heard, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released its long-awaited report on the Benghazi attacks on Friday evening. The report’s findings had been telegraphed by Democrats on the committee months ago: errors were made by the intelligence community in assessing the attack after the fact, but no evidence of an administration cover-up. The committee’s findings posed an immediate PR problem for the die-hard believers in the Benghazi cover-up, given that the HPSCI is controlled by the GOP. And so rather than make any allowance for the possibility that they’ve spent two years chasing a phantom conspiracy, they’re indulging in various flavors of denial.

Lindsey Graham came charging hard out the gates over the weekend, saying the HPSCI report is “full of crap.” Graham has more invested in Benghazi scandal-mongering than any other senator – he took up the cause are part of a successful effort to fend off Tea Party challengers to his 2014 reelection. He’s gone so far as to link Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine to Benghazi. So when the HPSCI found that the Obama administration hadn’t actually covered anything up, he had little choice to but call it “a complete bunch of garbage.”

Fox News, which has been the clearinghouse for all manner of Benghazi-related bullshit, opted for a different approach: sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling “LALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU LALALALALA.” Ed Henry, one of Fox’s “respectable” journalists, gave all of 30 seconds to the HPSCI report on the Friday evening edition of “Special Report,” and he twisted its findings to make it seem like they confirmed everything Fox has said to date about Benghazi.

But overall the big takeaway from conservatives and Republicans was that we just can’t trust the HPSCI report, or the committee, when it comes to Benghazi. The Weekly Standard’s Stephen F. Hayes urged caution and warned that the HPSCI report is “deeply flawed.” (You might remember Hayes from his previous “bombshell” reporting on the Benghazi talking points that completely fell apart because it was based on incomplete information leaked by partisan sources.) The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway put together an extended screed against the HPSCI report, and chastised the media for ignoring “the well-known problems with Congressional oversight.”

The relationship between intelligence agencies and the members of Congress who are supposed to oversee them could not be more damaged. I’m not even talking about stuff like how the CIA admitted to spying on members of the Senate committee that is supposed to oversee the agency.

It’s actually the good relationships that are even worse. (And I’m not even talking about how sometimes members are married to people who work in the private sector on related topics.) One of the most common criticisms levied against the intelligence oversight committees is that they’re far too approving and accepting of what the intelligence community wants.

I’m certainly sympathetic to complaints that the intelligence community and the bodies that are responsible for its oversight are far too simpatico with each other. But even if one were to accept that these conclusions are nothing more than one committee’s attempt to help the intelligence community save face, it’s not like this report exists in isolation. The HPSCI report is just the most recent of the many, many investigations into Benghazi (and not the first to come from a GOP-controlled committee), all of which have failed to turn up evidence of the White House cover-up that conservatives insist happened. It seems pretty clear that the only report conservatives will accept on Benghazi is one that affirms everything they’ve already convinced themselves is true.

As for the Benghazi “scandal” itself, it’s not even clear what we’re supposed to be outraged about at this point. Initially, the conservative complaint was that the administration deliberately withheld resources from the besieged Americans in Libya because the White House didn’t want the attack to become a major story. Since the White House’s alleged crimes have been steadily downgraded in terms of perfidiousness to today’s standard complaint that the administration created a misleading set of talking points to obscure who was responsible for the attack. And, again, despite all the media- and government-led investigations into these allegations, no one has turned up any proof that the White House deliberately deceived anyone.

Standing next to that is the long-standing and well-documented campaign by Republicans and conservatives to manipulate, lie, and twist facts surrounding Benghazi to keep the “scandal” alive. There have been countless Benghazi “smoking guns” and “bombshells” from the conservative media that, upon brief examination, turned out to be nothing. The head of the House Oversight Committee just makes stuff up about Benghazi to justify his years-long (and fruitless) obsession with the matter. All the while, they’re dismissing the official investigations as meaningless and refusing to allow the issue to rest by pretending that “we still don’t know what happened.” Behavior like that is genuinely scandalous.

 

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[cowslinger64]

The evidence isn't all in yet, Dr. Goebbels.

*points and laughs*


Funny how you whine about gubmint spending, but not when it suits your ignorant thought process.

Have you forgotten all about your other hot topic, end of the USA as we know it issues? Ebola, Kids from Central America, ISIS, blah blah fuckin blah????


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[BettyPoop]

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!"

Baby Bush made another dog painting today. Now he was a candidate!

 

[KingOrfeo]

Very interesting.

Thursday, Dec 4, 2014 12:34 PM EST

GOP caught in own Benghazi scandal: Why they downplayed objections to House report

GOP was furious about the Intelligence Committee’s Benghazi inquiry -- but here's why they kept quiet

Simon Maloy

Ever since the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released its report on the 2012 Benghazi attacks, Republicans and conservatives have been fuming over the fact that the GOP-led committee shot down pretty much every dark accusation of misconduct and/or deliberate wrongdoing that they’ve leveled at the Obama administration. Republicans in the Senate have been openly critical of the report and the committee members who authored it, with some (like Rand Paul) going so far as to implicate the committee in a scheme to protect the White House and cover-up the “truth” about Benghazi.

Now some Republican members of the HPSCI are venting to Fox News and complaining about committee chair Mike Rogers’ handling of the investigation. And their complaints are hilarious:

While House committee members have remained mostly silent, due to the secretive nature of the committee, some have complained to House Speaker John Boehner about the proceedings for months. Among the concerns was that Rogers was focusing strictly on the debate over the changed so-called “talking points” — the administration’s flawed narrative of the attack that initially blamed a protest over an anti-Islam film. Other Republicans on the committee, though, wanted the focus to be broader.

Anyone who’s been following the Benghazi story knows that for Republicans and conservatives, the “talking points” are the issue. The whole notion of a Benghazi “scandal” has been boiled down to whether the administration edited a series of talking points in such a way as to deliberately obscure the true nature of the attack. The conservative press has focused obsessively on them. The reason House Republicans created the special committee to investigate Benghazi in the first place was because they were angry that the White House had not turned over documents related to those talking points. Now that the HPSCI has found that there was no improper tinkering with the available intelligence, Republicans on the committee are claiming to be “frustrated” that Rogers focused on the issue.

And then there’s this fun little nugget from the Fox News report:

Frustrations with Rogers have been boiling for more than a year, but nobody wanted to openly question the chairman with a midterm election looming, fearing it would give the media the chance to focus on Republican infighting rather than the issues.

I’m sympathetic to the Republican desire to win elections, but they’ve spent the past two years describing Benghazi as Obama’s Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Teapot Dome wrapped in one. If they felt that the committee tasked with investigating this historic and earth-shaking scandal was doing a poor job of it, but sat on those concerns because they didn’t want to create a damaging media narrative ahead of an election, then they’re guilty of doing exactly what they’ve accused the administration of doing. They saw their colleagues failing at this critical task, but hushed it up owing to political concerns. My god – it’s downright scandalous!

If that is the case, then it’s incumbent upon John Boehner to form a special committee to investigate the House Intelligence Committee’s cover-up of potentially damaging information ahead of an election. The truth has to come out.

 

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[cowslinger64]

The report was self serving and relied on what became known as questionable CIA testimony. The definitive report will be brought forth by Trey Gowdy, which ever way it goes, it will be the truth.

Unless it's not what you wanna hear...like the bazillion other investigations before this one. Dummy

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[Sean]

Hi guys new here

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