I chose Sum of All Fears as the closest match because of the incompetence at the top and Ryan taking control of the situation when all was falling apart around him.
Panetta and the Joint Chiefs were at the WH at the time IIRC?
Where’s a JAL 747 when you need one?
Fiction writers usually underestimate the amount of spine that any politician has...
There is no such thing as a senate or house hearing in real life where the status quo of crony power is rocked, ever...
Benghazi is going nowhere, because it CAN’T go anywhere.
First, nobody cares about it. In a society like this one, that’s important.
But secondly, and most importantly, a decision to commit ground forces to urban combat in a third world sh*thole like Benghazi is ENTIRELY discretionary, and rests ENTIRELY within the powers and responsibilities of the Commander-in-Chief.
It’s not “treason” and it’s not “dereliction of duty”, because Obama had no duty in the first place - not constitutional, not statutory, not nothing.
Now, I grant you that his responses were chickensh*t and Muslim-loving, and his lies about it were entirely in keeping with his incompetence and his low character.
But we had a plebiscite on his cowardly, Muslim-loving, incompetent low character ass less than two months later, and he won. He won quite handily, despite what has been obvious about him since 2009.
So, it’s over. Gowdy didn’t discover anything because there was nothing to discover. If the American people, acting through their representatives in Congress assembled, cared about this in the least, “Obama” wo;uld have been impeached and convicted for high crimes and misdemeanors a long time ago. But the American people care about this not at all.
It’s awful, it’s embarrassing. It’s even shameful.
But it’s over, and it has been over for years.