Posted on 05/08/2013 1:42:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Eight months after four Americans died in a terrorist attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, a House committee held another hearing on Wednesday to examine whether the Obama administration mishandled the tragic events. What follows is an update on what is known about the Benghazi episode and why it has become such a political flash point:
Q. Why is the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform holding a new hearing on Benghazi?
A. Committee investigators found two State Department officials who previously had not spoken publicly and who are scathingly critical of the administrations response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack.
Q. But havent the inadequacy of security measures at Benghazi and other shortcomings already been addressed in a major report?
A. Yes.
Q. So how great a role is partisan politics playing in the Benghazi debate?
A. A big role, it is fair to say.
Q. What about the dispute over whether President Obama and his aides refused to apply the terrorism label to the attack, which killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans?
A. Mr. Obama applied the terror label to the attack in his first public statement on the events in Benghazi, delivered in the Rose Garden at the White House at 10:43 a.m. on Sept. 12, though the reference was indirect.
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NYT is lucky they don’t require a license to exercise their first amendment rights .... none of them could pass a background check for mental compentency!!!!
Well, the NYTimes can always be counted on to do the Devil’s dirty work as they have once again done here.
Nothing more than partisan politics that’s all.
There will be justice, in this world or the next for these evil doers.
CNN pundit just called for an outside investigation of the Cleveland Police.
Same for Benghazi or Boston Bombing? => not so much, nah!
Obama got re-elected, so “what difference does it make”. Absolutely none at all, at least not to the MSM>
Right on!
Is this reporting or just regurgitating of Democrat talking points? Oh, it’s the NYSlimes, so regurgitating of Democrat talking points is what they pass off as “reporting.”
They’re usually less blatant about it, though...
When Juanita Broaddrick went on prime-time TV to tell of how she had been raped by Bill Clinton (when he was the Arkansas attorney general), the NY Times ran a story about it around page A15 which was mostly an attack on her credibility.
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