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Posted on 05/20/2013 4:37:11 AM PDT by don-o
The Benghazi terrorist attack has stormed back onto the front pages, and as the attention grows, so do calls from House Republicans who want their party leaders to name a special investigative committee to take control of the inquiry.
More than 150 House Republicans have signed on to a resolution that would create a “select committee” to focus on inquiries by the public and Congress about the Sept. 11 attack in Libya that left four Americans dead.
SPECIAL COVERAGE: Benghazi Attack Under Microscope
Forty members of Congress in the past three weeks have joined the push for a single committee.
House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, has resisted — largely, analysts say, because the long-term political risks of a high-profile probe could outweigh any short-term benefit.
“This issue is not a sure-fire winner politically for the Republicans unless there is some bombshell that can be surfaced through a hearing in a select committee that has not already been surfaced by the multiple hearings that have been held so far,” said Christopher A. Preble, who has monitored the Benghazi scandal from his office at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Screw ‘risks and benefits’. It’s the right thing to do. Look for the truth and let the chips fall where they may.
Where is David Petraeus?
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Stay tuned.
Benghazi needs to be sorted out.
Not sure the Republicans have the stomach for it.
This is why the Republicans make you throw up! Truth, justice and the American Way are so frikken down on their priorities list it never enters their heads. They don’t DESERVE to win, they are a bunch of smarmy butt-licking politicians no different from the Dhimmicrats. Hey, assholes; IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT POLITICS!!
You pretty much hit the nail on the head.. it’s the right thing to do so odds are nothing will happen.
WATERGATE JOURNO BOB WOODWARD: "You look at the whole Benghazi thing. You look at those talking points and the initial draft by the CIA very explicitly said 'we know that activists who have ties to Al-Qaeda were involved in the attack.' Then you see what comes out a couple of days later and there is no reference to this. This is a business where you have to tell the truth and that did not happen here."(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Understood. But, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you don't have.
We need to dump Boner. I’m 110% convinced he’s being “controlled” by the Chicago ‘Rats. More likely it’s blackmail than bribery, but either way, Boner always talks semi-tough, then backs away from a meaningful confrontation and cuts the legs out from under any investigations. Fast and Furious etc.
IIRC there was a mini-movement to unseat him in this Congress. Let's get a bunch more Tea Party in the House and git 'er done in the next Congress.
Boehner, you are a disgrace. What shameful excuse for humanity you are.
“This issue is not a sure-fire winner politically for the Republicans unless there is some bombshell that can be surfaced through a hearing in a select committee that has not already been surfaced by the multiple hearings that have been held so far”
Well, there is duty, honor, and country...oh, wait...
Gheeee...............
Do we, or don’t we, apply that there “law” thingy??
Wow................
Thaaaats a hard one.
“This issue is not a sure-fire winner politically for the Republicans unless there is some bombshell that can be surfaced through a hearing in a select committee that has not already been surfaced by the multiple hearings that have been held so far,”
They, including Boehner, it seems, don’t want the lid blown off the running of arms to Syria.
The Constitution assigns foreign policy and command of the military to the President. Leaving people to die in Benghazi was immoral but not illegal. Presidents sacrifice lives for American foreign policy.
Impeachment-level offenses would have to be in weapons smuggling, fake kidnapping, or murder for hire, and even those would be uphill prosecutions.
Probably the best outcome is a politically crippled Hillary.
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