Posted on 05/02/2014 10:24:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
After more than a year of resisting the calls of a vast majority of his conference, Speaker John Boehner is relenting and forming a special committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya and resulting scandal.
“The administration's withholding of documents – emails showing greater White House involvement in misleading the American people – is a flagrant violation of trust and undermines the basic principles of oversight upon which our system of government is built. And it forces us to ask the question, what else about Benghazi is the Obama administration still hiding from the American people?” Boehner said in a statement announcing the decision.
“The new emails released this week were the straw that broke the camel’s back,” a senior GOP leadership aide said. “The Speaker was furious to learn that the administration withheld relevant documents from a congressional subpoena. He’s sick and tired of this evasion and obstruction from the administration, and wants a solution to finally force accountability, get the truth, and provide justice.”
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon had also waged a high-profile battle against an oversight committee hearing yesterday, undermining the notion that the five committees investigating the issue were working together, Republicans close to the matter said.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is under consideration to chair the special panel...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Yeah, more like, “Say hello to your new little friend, Andrew Breitbart”
Gowdy may not be the prince many think he is……just a warning….
Immediately afterward Boner called Obama and said “Waaaa! I can’t stop them. It’s soooooooo hard.”
What I find absurd is Boehner’s reason for waiting this long. He was looking for concrete evidence that tied the WH to the video talking point.
Isn’t that the whole purpose of the committee - to figure out what happened?
Trey Gowdy Demands Answers On Benghazi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1jeJmeeMjs
I missed this video last October and highly recommend watching now to ALL FReepers who have not seen this!
Please watch, if you haven’t yet. Thank you.
He had a fundraiser to get to in Las Vegas. What more do you people want from the man?!
Caves....BS....They found the “indisputable” smoking gun. Hope it’s enough to impeach Obama.
Holy cow.
Quote of the year.
Allahpundit may well have it right.
Seems Boehner’s epic resistance to ever establishing a Select Committee, even immediately after the Big Lie of Benghazi was overwhelmed by the facts and witnesses on the ground, drew ire from Republicans at home and in the House.
Boehner then hawks immigration “reform” and further enrages the base of his party.
Now comes the chess. Boehner trades out one of two main issues aligned against him (probably to save his Speakership) to get the other. He gives us a Select Committee.
The return he expects may be more about increased cooperation on amnesty, from recalcitrant House members.
You are correct on Boehner’s seriousness. It’s Gowdy, or this SC is a spin machine arranged to go nowhere.
Who makes the selection of members of a Special Committee? Do they have to be voted on by the whole house after being selected? Is the Chairman of the committee appointed or do the Committee members select the Chairman?
Let us remember that the current scandal about the cover-up, is still not the bottom of the event. The second question is what in the heck were they up to in Libya anyway? Were they running guns to Al Qaeda affiliated groups to use to overthrow Egypt and/or Syria?
What exactly is our foreign policy except to express a hatred of Israel, and to pummel Putin’s chest with sissy fists, yelling, “You Brute! You Brute!”
The title is a bit inaccurate. Trey Gowdy RIPS the media, to their faces (!) for buying the Bamster’s lies.
Trey Gowdy will surely create some major league fireworks. That would certainly be a bold move if Boehner appoints him.
It appears that the timing of the creation of this committee will insure that no conclusion is reached before the election.
The thing that is good, but too late, is of no use.
There is so much scandal with Obama we nee a scoreboard.
5.56mm
“Gowdy may not be the prince many think he is……just a warning….”
And outside of sheer defeatism, what evidence do you have to show that Trey Gowdy is not genuine?
*yawn
Show me the goods....
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