and now...for... the Benghazi Crew...in a Group SHot!
Posted on 05/05/2014 12:01:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
White House may not cooperate with Benghazi select panel
By Justin Sink - 05/05/14 02:40 PM EDT
The White House suggested Monday it may not cooperate with a new House select committee investigating the terror attack in Benghazi.
Press secretary Jay Carney said that the White House has "always cooperated with legitimate oversight," but called the new probe a “highly partisan effort to politicize” the deadly attack.
"If you look at even what some Republicans have said, it certainly casts doubt on the legitimacy of an effort that is so partisan in nature," Carney said.
"I don't think there are many people, including some Republicans… who believe that this is necessary after seven congressional committees and multiple investigations," he added.
Carney refused to answer questions directly about whether the White House would cooperate, but he noted that there had been 13 congressional hearings, 50 member-and staff briefings, and over 25,000 pages of documents produced over the September 11, 2012 terror attack, in which four Americans were killed.
"One thing this Congress is not short on is investigations into what happened before, during, and after Benghazi," he said.
"And all of these investigations… have found that the facts as we describe them, in terms of how we approach this, remain exactly as we described them then, the facts of yesterday or the facts today," Carney continued. "And they will be the facts no matter how often or for how long Republicans engage in highly partisan efforts to politicize what was a tragedy."
Earlier Monday, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) will head the new select committee.
Boehner decided to call for the committee last week, after the revelation of an email from White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, who recommended then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice should “underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
The White House has maintained that Rhodes was merely prepping Rice to discuss protests across the Middle East, and not the Benghazi incident specifically. Republicans, though, said the document is evidence the White House was pushing the narrative that the violence in Benghazi grew from anger over an anti-Islam YouTube to protect the president's bid for reelection.
“Trey Gowdy is as dogged, focused, and serious-minded as they come,” Boehner said in a statement announcing the appointment on Monday. “His background as a federal prosecutor and his zeal for the truth make him the ideal person to lead this panel.
“I know he shares my commitment to get to the bottom of this tragedy and will not tolerate any stonewalling from the Obama administration,” Boehner continued.
But Carney repeatedly dismissed the effort as conspiratorial and politically motivated.
"At some point you just have to assume Republicans will continue this because it feeds a political objective of some point," Carney said.
"The facts begin not to matter to those who fervently want to believe something else," he added.
Carney also chided Republicans for not focusing on issues "Americans really care about," like the economy.
"The effort to politicize this has continued unabated," Carney said.
House Democrats have not yet said whether they would participate in the select committee. Carney said the White House would leave it up to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on whether to participate.
Scared or what?
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IMO, having watched Gowdy ‘operate’ on House committees, the worst possible appointment to chair the committee, from the WH/Obama, Hillary, Dems perspective, would be Gowdy. That’s why all screaming and threatening to refuse to participate/cooperate - yup, I think they’re worried at a minimum, if not actually scared. If anyone can get to some of the facts, if not most of them, it’s Gowdy .... he’s the only one Boehner could have appointed in whom I have any faith,
I respectfully disagree. After seeing Tommy “ Dude , that was two years ago” Vietor with Bret Bear I would say he is a weak, weak link.
He contradicted the CIA’s Mike Morrel sworn testimony.
He also stated what the President wasn’t doing on the night of the attacks,to wit “ the President was not in the Situation Room” while Americans were under attack.
If this is true on its face the President was in severe dereliction of his duty as Commander in Chief.
Tommy should be very, very careful. I fear he may suffer a terrible accident
That’s just it... I can’t find anything concrete.
Just stuff like this:
http://definitions.uslegal.com/s/special-prosecutor/
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2013/06/03/a-special-prosecutor-for-the-irs-scandal/
And a bunch of wikipedia/dictionary articles.
“This isn’t Nazi Germany or the old Soviet Union.”
The only difference between the US and Nazi Germany is that the modern US Nazis are Negroes. They have used the power of their positions in government to deny members of another race civil rights, and they have abused that power to punish political enemies.
Any American that is still naively or willfully ignorant of that fact is just as big a threat to our liberty as the Negro Nazis themselves.
Jay Carney is beneath contempt. 4 AMERICANS DIED. We need to know why it happened. Why is the TRUTH such a difficult concept for Democrats?
Either capitulate to the commies or fight a civil war because the left is not going to obey the laws.
hahaha, that is good!
AWESOME!
Uh, Oh. We're doomed...
Aren’t these communist asshats something else? Clown Prince nobama has yet to cooperate with anything.
simple: just change the word Benghazi to Impeachment and then see if they cooperate. Make sure the IRS crap is included.
Have the timing so that the senate gets the articles after the new senators are sworn in.
They haven't in the past, so why would they now?
If not, there is only one alternative under The Constitution. They must impeach, regardless of what the Senate might or might not do.
As for impeachment, I think that's the end game for Obama: Leave the republicans no choice but either sulk away defeated for move to impeach...
Sulking is second nature for the current house leadership..
“Sulking is second nature for the current house leadership” - PM
Agreed. We will get to see what Gowdy is made of...It could be the right stuff.
Yikes,quite a portrait gallery you’ve got there.
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Which is exactly why the select committee should have been appointed to begin with.
Anyway, Harry Reid said that we can't have Americans disobeying the law - so that means that they have to cooperate. Right?/s
You may be right...now I am confused (not the first time)
House Dems (see other thread) are threatening to boycott the committee, too.
The 'Rats have only begun to fight. They'll fight this tooth and nail, either by rope-a-dope or by doing what Richard Ben Veniste did when Fred Thompson had Slick's ass in a sling for selling his office to China: fight, fight, pettifog, throw dirt, sand in eyes, anything he could think of to keep Fred from getting his witnesses. It worked, even with a Republican majority. (That's what having a sleaze like Larry Flynt on your side can do for you. He knows who in your caucus likes to pop prepubescent boys.)
Do you know if there is a statute or rule book we could search? Google is turning up junk...
This is what happens when your government goes so far off the reservation that you have no clue how they are operating.
Wiki article leads here...
http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/chapter-VI
Sounds like if the AG is a party under investigation, he’d be forced to recuse himself and then an outside special counsel would be appointed. By who appears to be a bit fuzzy...
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