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apogee
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Nov 22, 2014 - 10:49pm PT
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apogee
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Nov 24, 2014 - 04:25pm PT
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This is the sixth report that has been done on Benghazi...they all say the same thing.
Which is: there's nothing to be seen.
You fanatical Repubs just can't accept reality, can you?
I mean...if you could at least be honest enough to admit this bullshit is nothing more than a political strategy of obfuscation & obstruction, at least you'd be straight up about it.
If that's not the case, you're left looking as fanatical as any other tin-hatted 9/11 conspiracy whacknuts you prefer to spit at.
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Chaz
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greater Boss Angeles area
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Nov 24, 2014 - 04:51pm PT
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Are you going to believe the Republicans?
Here we have The Gang Who Can't Shoot Straight being bailed out by The Other Gang Who Can't Shoot Straight.
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crankster
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Nov 25, 2014 - 06:23am PT
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They do now, Bill. Here's your dinner of...crow. Pass it around.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 25, 2014 - 07:15am PT
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Sentence FIRST, verdict AFTER!!!
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crankster
Trad climber
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Nov 25, 2014 - 07:16am PT
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Rightwing Feast!!!!
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dirtbag
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Nov 25, 2014 - 07:58am PT
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From now on, every time some rightie nutjob bitches about Benghazi, I'm donating $1 to the Hillary for president fund, when it is established.
(Excluding c &p posts, or the like, to run up totals.).
Finally, right wing bitching will be put to god use.
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Barbarian
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Nov 25, 2014 - 01:49pm PT
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This just in: Issa plans another investigation into Beghazi!
Oh....sorry...just old news that has been repeated ad nauseum.
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couchmaster
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Nov 25, 2014 - 03:09pm PT
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Blam, Hillarys campaign is now fully funded. LOL
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crankster
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Nov 26, 2014 - 08:07pm PT
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Love Gail Collins...
Counting Benghazi Blessings
This year, in a break from tradition, I am giving thanks for the House Intelligence Committee’s final report on Benghazi.
Also family and friends. But I give thanks for them every year. This is our first opportunity to be grateful for the House Intelligence Committee’s Benghazi report. So let’s jump at it.
Really, you don’t get good news like this all the time. The committee spent two years conducting a bipartisan investigation into the terrible night in 2012 when four Americans, including the Libyan ambassador, were killed in a violent attack on an American compound. It found that while mistakes were made, the Americans on the ground in Libya made reasonable decisions, as did the people trying to support them. The C.I.A. was brave and effective. Nobody in the White House thwarted a possible rescue or deliberately tried to mislead the public about what happened.
Whew. You can imagine the excitement when this report was unveiled. Or, actually, quietly posted on the committee’s website. On Friday evening. On the eve of a holiday week.
The Intelligence Committee is, of course, led by members of the Republican majority. The only time Republicans don’t talk about Benghazi, it turns out, is when they report about their findings.
The silence was pretty deafening. Except for Senator Lindsey Graham, who helpfully told CNN: “I think the report’s full of crap.” And Newt Gingrich, who theorized that the Intelligence Committee had been “co-opted by the C.I.A.”
Newt knows. (“I’ve talked to four different people who have a real interest in this topic at a professional level. They are appalled by this report.”)
There have always been two ways of looking at Benghazi. One is as a terrible loss that might have been mitigated if the diplomatic compounds had been better protected, and that the State Department needs to rethink its traditional bureaucratic approach to overseeing security. The other, far more exciting, possibility is that this is all about Obama-Clinton perfidy. Was there a team of potential rescuers who were kept away from the fray because the administration didn’t want to admit it had underestimated the terror threat in Libya? Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, confided at a Republican fund-raising dinner that he had “suspicions” that Hillary Clinton told then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta “to stand down.” The Intelligence Committee didn’t find any evidence whatsoever that that had occurred. But they were, you know, co-opted.
The committee and its staff spent what one Democratic member said was “thousands of hours” reading intelligence reports, cables and emails about the incident. It was a heck of a commitment. Although, to be fair, surely no more than the House Armed Services Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which have been looking into exactly the same events and coming up with pretty much the same conclusions.
Still to come: A special $3.3 million House Committee that Speaker John Boehner has created to pursue what Chairman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina says will be the “final, definitive accounting of the attack.” The effort is needed, Boehner said, because the “American people still have far too many questions” to let the inquiries drop now after nobody has had a chance to look into the matter except a special independent review board, the House Intelligence Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
And then, of course, there’s the House Oversight Committee, under the irrepressible Representative Issa, which shows no sign of wrapping up its Benghazi investigations. Issa has already sent Gowdy a 37-page letter listing what he said were State Department efforts to obstruct his probes. But he’s required to step down as chairman at the end of the year, and his replacement, Jason Chaffetz of Utah, seems to be planning a less lively approach. The top Democrat on the committee, Elijah Cummings, said Chaffetz had shown “a sincere interest in working together,” as opposed to Issa’s sincere interest, at one point, in cutting off Cummings’s microphone at a public hearing.
We give thanks for all the congressional investigations into Benghazi. Who says Congress can’t reduce unemployment? In March, the Defense Department said that it had devoted “thousands of man-hours to responding to numerous and often repetitive congressional requests regarding Benghazi, which includes time devoted to approximately 50 congressional hearings, briefings and interviews” at a cost of “millions of dollars.”
Meanwhile, there are rumblings from some Senate Republicans that what the next Congress needs is a good joint House-Senate Benghazi investigation. On the other hand, the House Agricultural Committee seems to have no interest whatsoever in initiating a probe. For this, we are truly thankful.
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Mark Force
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Cave Creek, AZ
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Nov 27, 2014 - 09:54am PT
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Here is the link for Gail Collins' op/ed - http://nyti.ms/1Cj1gnE
Guess the Republicans have to keep "studying" the Benghazi issue until they get the "objective" result they want.
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apogee
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Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Nov 27, 2014 - 10:02am PT
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"Blam, Hillarys campaign is now fully funded. "
Waitaminit....there's lots of Republicans saying this is the death knell for Hillary's campaign...
Which is it?
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crankster
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Nov 27, 2014 - 10:03am PT
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The Benghazi Hoax has been exposed. The wingNUT base won't let go, but normal people will. The Fox crazies aren't going to vote for Hillary anyway.
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apogee
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Nov 27, 2014 - 10:10am PT
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No, but they're sticking with their 'say it enough times & it becomes truth' strategy, 'cuz that's all they got.
Matter of fact, expect the 'double down' anytime now....
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