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Posted on 05/11/2013 10:19:44 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) paid a visit to Morning Joe to discuss this week’s news surrounding Benghazi — which included the hearing and this morning’s story about the edited talking points. Amid the panel discussion, Cummings spoke specifically about one of the witnesses, alleging that Republicans tried to change his story in a way that contradicted his sworn testimony.
Asked what’s next, Cummings (who, you may recall, criticized GOP Rep. Darrell Issa for “politicizing” Benghazi during Wednesday’s hearing) said it was “a search for the truth.” Referring to one of the witnesses who testified at this week’s hearing, Cummings said, there is sworn testimony from Gregory Hicks that said nobody coerced him or tried to change his story.
“You all reported on this show that Cheryl Mills was hollering at him. He never said that,” Cummings said. “But the interesting thing is, in the hearing, one of our members tried to put the words in his mouth that was the opposite of what he just testified to in a sworn testimony a few days before. [...] So when Republicans do that, it takes away from our credibility.”
At that point, Joe Scarborough interjected to question whether Cheryl Mills, top aide to Hillary Clinton, never contacted Hicks to express dissatisfaction with his raising questions and speaking up. He pointed to the story about the incident in the New York Times, reminding Cummings that the Times isn’t quite a right-wing outlet.
“Are you telling me Mr. Hicks changed his story?” Scarborough pressed.
“That is exactly right,” Cummings replied.
“I don’t blame him,” Cummings added. “I blame the Republicans on our committee trying to put words in his mouth. And we put out a piece yesterday to show what he said in sworn testimony on April 11th before a Republican investigator and then what he said at the hearing. But again, the Republicans were trying to get him to say things.”
Watch below, via MSNBC:
Must be because I am getting down right ancient....better us the spell checker again here.
[[my keyboard doesn’t connect with my brain very well either...]]
It’s a neurological issue where the brain sees thel etters correctly, but by the time it gets to the figners, they come out wrong- so I’m told- I used to take hte time to go through all my spellign mistakes one by one- but with the amoutn of posts i make and thel imtited tiem I have, I don’t bother anymore- the brain is able ot read words that are wrongly spelled as probven out by a cambridge study, and it reads it as fast as words that are correctly spelled as long as msot of hte letters are there and the right letter is i nthe beginning- our brains are hardwired to simplify, and when it coems across mispelled words, it simply recognizes the letters and automatically puts them aright-
Any way- it’s kinda like dyslexia- only it happens with the figners- the brain actually sees the letters right before typing, but it gets scrambled before it reaches the figners-
You are quite welcome. Even the best of sites has snot filled pinched nosed elitist bullies. Running people down builds up their low self esteem. Keep up the good work.
I figured as much. You’re doing a great job. Don’t let anyone tell you differently.
You’re absolutely right. That was what should have been the Republicants response. That’s actually another reason I couldn’t watch all of it. They didn’t seem to be calling out the Dims on the stupid crap they were saying. Let’s hope their letting the Dims dig their own grave will work...
BTW, I had no problem reading your post. I used to be a spelling/grammar nazi until I realized everyone has some reason for being imperfect, even me! It was clear your errors weren’t due to ignorance or lazy disrespect, like some others around here... Thanks for the eloquent post explaining your situation. Now if we can only get Bullish to come around... ; )
[[Let’s hope their letting the Dims dig their own grave will work...]]
Well, it hasn’t worked for nearly 20 years or more now with previous administratiosn who didn’t fight baqck hoping hte left woudl eventually hang themselves if given enough rope- I’m all for being patient, but there comes a tiem when the only course left is to fight fire with fire- The blaze is out of control- our only hope is to get as angry and forceful as someone liek Judge Jeanine and glen beck and soem others who who are very angry abotu how despicable the left has been htrough htis all (A woman congressperson came on today and really soudned very upset and determiend to dig her heels in and see thsi through till the bitter end in the hopes of throwign the bums out of office- let’s hope she gets her wish
Actually, based on what I heard in the hearings, I think in this case what Cummings is referring to, apart from his ignorance of fundamental English, is to say that Hicks’ story changed because his testimony this week was that he had been instructed not to meet privately with Chaffetz. In prior testimony Hicks had stated that he wasn’t instructed to withhold information from anybody. Genius Cummings evidently can’t distinguish between the concepts of “withholding information” and “private meeting.”
During the hearing, he was trying to leverage this into an accusation of changed testimony, and I guess he’s now running with it.
By the way, I’m not connecting this with the “was punished/wasn’t punished” accusation re the GOP putting words in his mouth. I think that’s a separate bit of nonsense from Cummings. I’m only tying the changed testimony accusation to the Chaffetz issue.
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/04/48974-brutal-judge-jeanines-slapdown-of-jihadi-bomber-mother/
I am also a Glenn Beck fan and I support him. Sometimes the people here that bash him really disturb me. I often wonder what side THEY are on. I usually chalk it up to ignorance.
Do you mean there is somebody more stupid than Hoyer in Maryland's House delegation?
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Thank you for the response.
Although both of the incidents mentioned by you and I happened, you may be correct about what Cummings was referring to. It’s hard to tell with dedicated liars, because they have a tendency to jump to whichever ‘truth’ works best for them at the time.
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