Posted on 08/20/2013 9:07:16 AM PDT by Nachum
The House Oversight Committee will launch an investigation into the State Department following reports that Secretary of State John Kerry fully reinstated four employees who were faulted for security failures relating to the Sept. 11, 2012, terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans.
Oversight chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) announced Tuesday that his committee “will expand its investigation of the Benghazi terrorist attack to include how a supposed ‘Accountability Review Board’ investigation [run by the State Department] resulted in a decision by Secretary Kerry not to pursue any accountability from anyone.”
Four State Department employees were found to have failed in their duties during the Benghazi attack. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton placed the employees on paid administrative leave.
However, reports emerged late Monday that the four employees would be fully reinstated by Kerry and would not face any disciplinary action.
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Maxwell, one of the employees in question, told the Daily Beast on Monday that he was told in a memo to come back to work on Tuesday morning.
“No explanation, no briefing, just come back to work. So I will go in tomorrow,” Maxwell said.
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What is he supposed to do? Take out a gun and shoot Hillary/Kerry/you name it?
Like it or not, Congress can’t go and arrest anybody. A case has to be made.
But for that, there has got to be popular support. The problem in the case of Clinton was that the Dems were able to spin it so that it looked like mean, puritanical GOPers just trying to prevent Bill from having a good time - the lying under oath part got completely swamped. So a case has to be made, and it has to be made clearly enough to get public support for a prosecution.
“So a case has to be made, and it has to be made clearly enough to get public support for a prosecution.”
Sadly, you are correct. The USA used to be a constitutional republic, where rule of law superseded rule of mob.
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