Posted on 05/22/2014 6:46:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Clinton allies pressured Dems on Benghazi By: Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer May 21, 2014 08:02 PM EDT
Hillary Clinton’s world was so worried about a Republican investigation of the Benghazi attacks, they sent a message to House Democrats: We need backup.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) publicly considered boycotting the panel, an idea that Clinton supporters feared would leave the potential 2016 candidate exposed to the enemy fire of House Republicans.
So Clinton emissaries launched a back channel campaign, contacting several House Democratic lawmakers and aides to say they’d prefer Democrats participate, according to sources familiar with the conversations. Pelosi’s staff said they have not heard from Clinton’s camp.
On Wednesday, Pelosi appointed five Democrats to the committee, giving Democrats another crucial mission in the months ahead of what was already a tough election year: act as Clinton’s first line of defense.
“Republicans are making it clear they plan to use the power of the Benghazi Select Committee to continue to politicize the tragedy that occurred in Benghazi, which is exactly why Democratic participation in the committee is vital,” a Democrat close to Clinton world said. “Inevitably, witnesses ranging from Secretary Clinton to Secretary [John] Kerry will be subpoenaed to testify, and the Democrats appointed to the committee will help restore a level of sanity to the hearings, which would otherwise exist solely as a political witch hunt.”
As Republicans continue their high-profile probe into the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Clinton is center stage. Over the next few months, Republicans on the committee will work to build a case against her, and they will attempt to haul her to Capitol Hill to testify.
Clinton and her allies know from experience the kind of damage an emboldened Republican House committee can inflict.
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Clinton and her allies know from experience the kind of damage an emboldened Democrat House committee can inflict.
Republican, not so much...
Obama & Hillary aren’t ANGRY the terrorists that killed 4 Americans in Benghazi haven’t been brought to justice!
Its all about the Marxists retaining their power. Nothing more. Nothing less. Its fully outlined in Alinsky’s writings. The goal is always MORE POWER!
So let me get this straight. The Dems are participating in the committee not to find out the truth but to protect the Hidibeast?
Can’t have the TRUTH come out now, can we???
Gowdy better be ready when they go on the offensive though. And Gowdy's wife and mother and children too.
I suspect the truth about Benghazi is going to be even worse than we currently know, so the Democrats will do anything to keep it from seeing the light of day.
Maybe what they want is to establish pre-truth? That would be truthful data which is determined before the facts are known.
Benghazi was Hillary’s 3 a.m. phone call about a crisis in the world.
She failed the test.
In her ‘08 campaign, she bragged that she had passed her commander in chief test, and that McCain had passed the test, but that Obama had not passed his commander in chief test.
I have no dog in the fight over the Democrat nomination in ‘16, but sure wish the Democrats would come up with some new candidates, not just have a Hillary coronation.
NOPE. They are trying to protect themselves. That is why, for instance, Cummings is on the committee. He has much to hide.
They are not angry that justice was never done to the terrorists. Instead they are angry that the Republicans want to look into the matter.
How inane is this. Democrats are angry that Republicans want to look at an issue, rather than having any anger that this deadly terror attack happened.
“I have no dog in the fight over the Democrat nomination in ‘16, but sure wish the Democrats would come up with some new candidates, not just have a Hillary coronation.”
I think they are going to push that cruiser, from San Antonio, Castro.
Meh ...
No bias here. Nope. None.
How about the committee will attempt to learn the truth about Benghazi, and where Hillary Clinton was involved will be compelled to testify in front of the committee, as the committee is legally allowed to do.
There are only three parts of Benghazi related to Clinton:
(a) the denial of the Ambassador's security request, and
(b) the State Department was the first to publicly claim that the video was to blame,
(c) Why was the Ambassador in Benghazi to begin with
But there are other aspects to Benghazi unrelated to the State Department
Giggling sounds heard around Vince Foster’s grave.
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