But we have known it all along. We knew it less than a month after the attacks when the House Oversight Committee accused State Department officials of a political agenda.
House Tea Party Members In Pursuit Of Hillary Clinton: Examine Your Own Role In Cutting Diplo Post Security
October 7, 2012
Representatives Darrell Issa and Jason Chaffetz of the House Oversight Committee, on October 2, sent Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a letter listing attacks in Libya over the six months prior to the deadly September 11 attack on our Benghazi consulate.
Read on >>>>Issa Flips The Coin And The Game Is On
October 10, 2012Today was the first public session of the House Committee Oversight and Government Reform hearings on diplomatic security in Libya. In closing today’s more than four-hour long session, chairman Darrell Issa noted that although this is an election year, his committee wants to find out what went wrong in Benghazi in order to prevent it from happening anywhere again. If you buy that, I have a bridge for sale.
His admonishing tone, suggesting members of the panel might have an election year agenda, was startlingly inappropriate.
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The Tea Party v. Hillary Clinton: It Never Ends
April 24, 2013Resoundingly missing from the cover of the Interim Progress Report on the Benghazi, Libya consulate attack published yesterday by the House Republican Conference is the name Harold Rogers (R-KY), chairman of the House Appropriations committee that twice slashed the State Department’s diplomatic security budget. That committee was apparently excused from reporting to the conference in the zealous crusade being waged by Tea Party Republicans, led by Darryl Issa and Jason Chaffetz, to pin blame on then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Issa’s name is listed as a co-author of the report while Media Matters reports that Chaffetz appeared with Megyn Kelly to discuss the report released to great hullabaloo in right-wing circles.
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Select Committee Dems Call Out Republicans for Turning Political Turrets on Hillary Clinton
July 15, 2015In astoundingly transparent fashion, the Republicans on the Select Committee on Benghazi have abandoned all
pretenseplans for investigating departments and agencies outside the State Department and individuals other than Hillary Clinton.
An article in The Hill today reveals a letter from Select Committee Democrats to their GOP counterparts accusing them of refitting the objectives of the committee from inquiry and prevention into a political weapon aimed at the former secretary of state. Thank you, Karen Finney, for sharing this because regardless of what “we all knew all along,” here is the evidence. In the end evidence is all that really counts. It is our only weapon
When something like this appears I just wonder what rock people have been sleeping under and how many opioids they took.
The Benghazi panel is a scandal of a committee
Seriously? So not news!
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