All of it is to diminish Trey Gowdy’s Select Committee. That is where the real bones are buried. Have you not noticed the level of self inflicted scandals they are themselves outing whenever this Benghazi thing pops up in the headlines?
Remember, they wrote new laws to make that kind of crap highly illegal when Ollie North was able to get off their Reagan vendettas because the law did not address what was done to get around a commie loving Congress at the time?
I heard one liberal pundit trying to make the point that Ollie North did the same in negotiating with Iran. Bullcrap! Congress took away any possible funding to help those battling Daniel Ortega. Ollie sold the mullahs mostly worthless crap for that money to be turned into support for the Sandinistas.
Important differences between this and Iran Contra are:
> Iran-Contra involved hostages, not a deserter & probable defector
> Iran-Contra did not involve direct actions by Reagan, Obama personally negotiated the return of imprisoned Taliban commanders