NYT Editorial: Shut Down the Benghazi Committee

[pbrauer]

Clearly some of you reject an editorial from the Times, but here it is anyway. Cheers!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shut-down-the-benghazi-committee.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”


Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, a leading candidate to become the next speaker of the House, acknowledged last week that was the point of burrowing into the details of the 2012 attacks on government facilities in eastern Libya that killed the American ambassador and three colleagues.


“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” Mr. McCarthy said in an astonishing moment of candor that was clearly a gaffe, rather than a principled admission. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?”


Lawmakers have long abused their investigative authority for political purposes. But the effort to find Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the Libya attacks, was personally responsible for the deaths has lost any semblance of credibility. It’s become an insult to the memory of four slain Americans.

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[cpwill]

Clearly some of you reject an editorial from the Times, but here it is anyway. Cheers!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shut-down-the-benghazi-committee.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”


Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, a leading candidate to become the next speaker of the House, acknowledged last week that was the point of burrowing into the details of the 2012 attacks on government facilities in eastern Libya that killed the American ambassador and three colleagues.


“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” Mr. McCarthy said in an astonishing moment of candor that was clearly a gaffe, rather than a principled admission. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?”


Lawmakers have long abused their investigative authority for political purposes. But the effort to find Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the Libya attacks, was personally responsible for the deaths has lost any semblance of credibility. It’s become an insult to the memory of four slain Americans.

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:shrug: they would have no reason to keep on going and I would agree with this....

.....if Hillary had not gone to great lengths to hide what was going on at State during that time period. As more information and emails continue to come to light, they continue to have a justification to exist. Had Hillary been upfront and simply dumped everything at the get go instead of trying to keep control over it, and keep other things secret, she'd be in a much better position.

 

[Rentoc]

If they had not lied to begin with there would be no need for a thorough investigation.

Why? Why did they talk about a damn video? What made them believe that the citizens of this country would be stupid enough to believe that? Why did the President send a very smart woman out to try that bovine excrement of an excuse on all the big Sunday talk shows? Where was the President when all this was happening? A piece of this country was being attacked!! The Presidents #1 responsibility is to PROTECT THE NATION!! Where was he? I have not seen one photo of him in the situation room, on the phone, looking at intel reports.....nothing!! He sure as hell got on Air Force One the next day a flew to Vegas for a party with a rap star.

Once again, Representative McCarthy's comments were stupid at best, but in no way did he "confirm" or "admit" that the committee was formed to hinder Mrs. Clinton's chances at becoming the first woman President.

 

[ocean515]

Clearly some of you reject an editorial from the Times, but here it is anyway. Cheers!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shut-down-the-benghazi-committee.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”


Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, a leading candidate to become the next speaker of the House, acknowledged last week that was the point of burrowing into the details of the 2012 attacks on government facilities in eastern Libya that killed the American ambassador and three colleagues.


“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” Mr. McCarthy said in an astonishing moment of candor that was clearly a gaffe, rather than a principled admission. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?”


Lawmakers have long abused their investigative authority for political purposes. But the effort to find Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the Libya attacks, was personally responsible for the deaths has lost any semblance of credibility. It’s become an insult to the memory of four slain Americans.

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Like Nixon, it wasn't the break in that cost him, it was the attempt to cover it up. If Clinton's action had no legs, it wouldn't still be walking.

By the way, the MSM media does itself no favors by inventing an "admission" in what McCarthy said.

 

[US Conservative]

Hillary could cooperate with the investigation and end it at any time.

But she hasn't-and every time the investigation reveals something (like the email scandal)-there's just more evidence of lies and corruption.

Republicans control congress-this isn't going to go away.

 

[Fenton]

Poll; Clinton honest trustworthy problem extends to swing states - CNNPolitics.com

 

[Fearandloathing]

Clearly some of you reject an editorial from the Times, but here it is anyway. Cheers!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shut-down-the-benghazi-committee.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”


Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, a leading candidate to become the next speaker of the House, acknowledged last week that was the point of burrowing into the details of the 2012 attacks on government facilities in eastern Libya that killed the American ambassador and three colleagues.


“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” Mr. McCarthy said in an astonishing moment of candor that was clearly a gaffe, rather than a principled admission. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?”


Lawmakers have long abused their investigative authority for political purposes. But the effort to find Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the Libya attacks, was personally responsible for the deaths has lost any semblance of credibility. It’s become an insult to the memory of four slain Americans.

snip​

Nicely done for the NYT!

Perfect timing to take advantage of the Republicans stoopidity. And they have a point. The optics are bad.

I have no doubt there's **** in that wood pile, but the committee has carried partisan freight since the beginning and the new boss decided to have some for breakfast. And now, the "four slain Americans" have become the weapon of the Democrats; it is no longer in their name we seek justice, but now, in their name, we what? end partisanship?

The fact is, they can't. It would be an admission the whole ****ing thing was a put up. And two, they have the advantage, the numbers and the news division of the New York Times is leading with Mrs. Clinton's swiftly growing 'other' issues. So, while we can now stand back and say yep, it's partisan, but then what isn't, and does that mean we can't ever know who attacked us and why? Does it mean we will ever have the evidence of exactly how and why supportive air strikes became "regime change".

The facts remain, the guns are aimed at their girl and they can bitch all they want, were I a Republican I wold merely reply "Yep, some payback for Harry Reid"

 

[pbrauer]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/07/now-that-everyones-calling-for-the-end-of-the-b/206025

This morning I nearly choked on my coffee when I saw that The New York Times' editorial board publishedan opinion piece with the headline, "Shut Down the Benghazi Committee." For once, I couldn't agree more with the Times.


Two years ago, I wrote an e-book with my colleague, Ari Rabin-Havt, titled, The Benghazi Hoax. In it, we detailed the 15 most common falsehoods the Fox Noise Machine and conservative blowhards pumped out on a daily basis as they tried to politicize the tragedy in Benghazi.


Mitt Romney had failed to do so effectively in the 2012 election, so the right-wing turned its sights on the woman they thought most likely to be the next Democratic nominee for president.


Fox News was a driving force behind House Republicans' formation of the sham Benghazi Committee. In fact,the network ran nearly 1,100 prime-time segments pushing the propped-up storyline in the first 20 months after the national tragedy alone.


On May 2, 2014, House Speaker John Boehner announced the Benghazi Select Committee. In the ensuing two weeks, as Media Matters reported, Fox News provided over $124 million dollars' worth of promotion on their airwaves. Mainstream media followed suit, awaiting each and every utterance of Rep. Trey Gowdy and his committee cronies.


Two years later, the results speak for themselves.


The committee has spent $4.6 million taxpayer dollars and uncovered no new information or wrongdoing by any individual. Despite major leaks to reporters, the Select Committee on Benghazi has offered no recommendations for how to prevent similar tragedies from happening in the future.


Now, The New York Times is reaffirming what I have been saying for the past two years, after they followed committee Republicans down the rabbit hole of Hillary's emails -- another glaring red herring in this tragedy-turned-partisan-ploy.


This may be one of the ugliest abuses of taxpayer funds and exploitations of a national tragedy in modern American history.


Politicians in both parties can expect to be dragged through the mud, but conservatives should be ashamed of dishonoring men and women who try to keep us safe, solely for partisan political gain. There should be general agreement -- if nothing else, common decency should tell you -- that politicizing a tragedy such as this crosses a line.


This was a political hit-job of the highest order. Hopefully, it is the last we'll see of any kind of political attack like it.

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[NonoBadDog]

Clearly some of you reject an editorial from the Times, but here it is anyway. Cheers!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shut-down-the-benghazi-committee.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”


Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, a leading candidate to become the next speaker of the House, acknowledged last week that was the point of burrowing into the details of the 2012 attacks on government facilities in eastern Libya that killed the American ambassador and three colleagues.


“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” Mr. McCarthy said in an astonishing moment of candor that was clearly a gaffe, rather than a principled admission. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?”


Lawmakers have long abused their investigative authority for political purposes. But the effort to find Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the Libya attacks, was personally responsible for the deaths has lost any semblance of credibility. It’s become an insult to the memory of four slain Americans.

snip​

You know them bastards are liars. They lied about Hillary and stuff so we can never believe them. Thanks for bringing yet another lie from them lying bastards to the forefront.

 

[Fenton]

Clearly some of you reject an editorial from the Times, but here it is anyway. Cheers!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shut-down-the-benghazi-committee.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”


Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, a leading candidate to become the next speaker of the House, acknowledged last week that was the point of burrowing into the details of the 2012 attacks on government facilities in eastern Libya that killed the American ambassador and three colleagues.


“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” Mr. McCarthy said in an astonishing moment of candor that was clearly a gaffe, rather than a principled admission. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today?”


Lawmakers have long abused their investigative authority for political purposes. But the effort to find Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the Libya attacks, was personally responsible for the deaths has lost any semblance of credibility. It’s become an insult to the memory of four slain Americans.

snip​

Yes, the Committees investigations that continue minus the thousands of subpoenaed Emails are a insult to the memof four slain Americans.

Not the fact that the President and Hillary immediately concocted a BS story about a YouTube video to hide the real reasons behind their deaths.

The Democrats and the President have been Politicizing the deaths of these Americans since the night they died.

 

[justabubba]

wasn't it this committee that exposed that hillary was not using a state.gov email address and was instead sending and receiving emails via her personal email account using a private server?

was it not a result of this committee's inquiry that it was learned hillary allowed confidential information to be communicated over an unsecured internet service?

but for the existence of this committee would those foolish decisions by the secretary of state - someone who next wants to preside over our nation's government - have ever come to light?

if my understanding is accurate, then the parties most desirous of ending the committee would seem to be hillary and the establishment directing the DNC

 

[Kobie]

:shrug: they would have no reason to keep on going and I would agree with this....

.....if Hillary had not gone to great lengths to hide what was going on at State during that time period. As more information and emails continue to come to light, they continue to have a justification to exist. Had Hillary been upfront and simply dumped everything at the get go instead of trying to keep control over it, and keep other things secret, she'd be in a much better position.

Have ANY of the emails that have been released shed any additional light on Benghazi, specifically?

If this is the Clinton E-Mail Committee, then fine, call it that. But using Benghazi as a prop because it sounds sexier to voters smacks of a hatchet job.

 

[cpwill]

Have ANY of the emails that have been released shed any additional light on Benghazi, specifically?

You know, I'll admit, I haven't even been paying attention to that part. I recall that it came to light that we knew from Day One that it was a terrorist attack (and not some youtube-protest-gone-wrong) and we found out that Libya policy was being partly steered by Sydney Blumenthal (who was denied access by the Obama administration, but who Hillary decided to give access to anyway). But the classified is the biggie.

If this is the Clinton E-Mail Committee, then fine, call it that. But using Benghazi as a prop because it sounds sexier to voters smacks of a hatchet job.

Well, putting classified onto unclass private servers and then not immediately turning them over to the government is the actual felony. Lying to grieving families in order to benefit a political campaign is just bad governance, bad judgment, and breathtakingly cynical.

 

[justabubba]

Have ANY of the emails that have been released shed any additional light on Benghazi, specifically?

If this is the Clinton E-Mail Committee, then fine, call it that. But using Benghazi as a prop because it sounds sexier to voters smacks of a hatchet job.

it's a fishing expedition
not unlike the whitewater investigation turning into a BJ investigation which resulted in bill lying about receiving a few

 

[plutonium]

yes lets open up the 9 11 hearings again better reading...and call cheney to testify...get the popcorn and beer ready

 

[plutonium]

I cant believe the repubs spent more time on 4 people getting killed in bengazi than 2000 in 9 11 .seeing that the fbi,nsa,cia and bush admin had to be all questioned......kinda proves a point