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Meet the chief prosecutor in the GOP’s Benghazi show trial (Washington Post article)
Washington Post ^ | 05/08/2014 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 05/08/2014 3:17:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Rep. Trey Gowdy, the tea party Republican tapped to lead the new committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks, made a telling slip Wednesday morning in describing his mission.

Asked by MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough about the possibility that his panel’s work would continue into the 2016 election campaign, Gowdy replied that “if an administration is slow-walking document production, I can’t end a trial simply because the defense won’t cooperate.”

A trial? And the Obama administration is the defense? So much for that “serious investigation” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) promised; his new chairman intends to play prosecutor, proving the administration’s guilt to the jury — in this case, the public.

As a legal matter, Gowdy, a volcanic former prosecutor, is on shaky ground declaring his committee a court and his investigation a trial. But his honesty is refreshing, and it confirms what seemed implicit in Boehner’s selection of the second-term South Carolinian to head the panel over more experienced and less combative colleagues.

In a broader sense, Gowdy’s rapid ascent in the party fits closely with what House Republicans are doing in this midterm election year: abandoning any pretense of legislating in favor of unremitting hostilities with the White House.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benrhodes; danamilbank; demagogicparty; jaycarney; johnboehner; libya; memebuilding; ohio; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; showtrial; southcarolina; susanrice; treygowdy; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: SeekAndFind

The Washington Past is still around?


21 posted on 05/08/2014 4:31:28 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SeekAndFind

Dana Milbank, an aging Leftist sitting in a corner and babbling to himself. But fortunately for him, the sclerotic Washington Post sends him a check for his meaningless maunderings so he doesn’t have to live on the charity of betters.


22 posted on 05/08/2014 4:56:28 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind
Washington Post ^ | 05/08/2014 | Dana Milbank

You misspelled "Uberpartisan Democrat scumbag Dana Milbank"

I think it's awesome that the DNC and the White House have The Washington Post paying the salary of one of their lead media writers.

Wonder why George W. Bush didn't think of that?...

23 posted on 05/08/2014 5:19:13 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: mojito
Dana Milbank is the journalistic equivalent of an inflatable sex doll. Which is why he’s such a favorite with the WH.

Movies that should be made:

Barack And The Real Journalist

Starring Dana Milbank as "Bianca".

"Yes, his mouth is always like that".

24 posted on 05/08/2014 5:24:30 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: GOPJ

Problem is GOPJ....lot’s of people still trust the MSM.


25 posted on 05/08/2014 5:30:32 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: kiryandil
I think it's awesome that the DNC and the White House have The Washington Post paying the salary of one of their lead media writers.

Reminds me of this:


26 posted on 05/08/2014 5:46:52 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: sport

Worse than Ken Starr, yes. I heard one of the talking faces on FOX this afternoon say, “the Republicans are using the tragic deaths of four brave Americans to score political talking points.” Gowdy is in for a defining experience going against the regime. I hope he survives.


27 posted on 05/08/2014 6:26:59 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh. Dana Milbank. I should have read the byline rather than waste my time dredging semantic content out of the stinking muck of this guy’s verbiage.


28 posted on 05/08/2014 6:31:47 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SeekAndFind
...intends to play prosecutor, proving the administration’s guilt to the jury — in this case, the public.

They don't have to prove it to me. As far as I'm concerned, they can proceed directly to the sentencing phase.

29 posted on 05/08/2014 6:35:19 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

RE: They don’t have to prove it to me. As far as I’m concerned, they can proceed directly to the sentencing phase.

I’ve always asked this question -— WHAT EXACTLY IS THE CHARGE?

And after that, WHAT SHOULD THE PUNISHMENT BE ASSUMING THE VERDICT IS GUILTY AS CHARGED?


30 posted on 05/08/2014 6:45:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Lying to Congress, for starters. If they were really running weapons out of Libya to somewhere, they probably violated all sorts of weapons trafficking laws.

As for punishment, I would be lenient and just give everyone in the WH life without parole.

31 posted on 05/08/2014 6:49:15 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills ping! Thanks SeekAndFind.


32 posted on 05/08/2014 6:59:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Osage Orange

Fewer every year...


33 posted on 05/08/2014 8:36:57 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Are we finally going to get a smidgen of truth? - - Freeper Veto!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nice try, Milbank, but as a former prosecutor, Gowdy naturally talks in the idiom of trials - what really bothers you left-wingers about him is that he takes your BS and flings it right back at you: to Pelosi complaining that there were more ‘pubs than ‘rats on the committee, he said “well, as President Obama said, elections have consequences - we control the House” - get used to somebody who isn’t going to apologize or run away whenever you attack him....


34 posted on 05/08/2014 9:35:21 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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