LA Times: Obama dismisses Benghazi criticism as 'sideshow'

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Obama dismisses Benghazi criticism as 'sideshow'
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-na-benghazi-20130514,0,1518862.story

WASHINGTON — A defiant President Obama dismissed as a "sideshow" the controversy over his administration's handling of last year's armed assault in Benghazi, Libya, accusing critics of trying to make political hay from the deaths of four Americans.

"We dishonor them when we turn things like this into a political circus," Obama told reporters Monday.

Obama's angry remarks were his first since House hearings last week about the September 2012 attack on the U.S. facility in Benghazi, and his first public reaction to fresh evidence indicating the White House weighed political calculations as it released information in the days that followed.

The evidence — a newly released email chain — has reprised the debate that erupted in the heat of last fall's presidential race, although Democrats say this time Republicans have a new target. Having failed to sink Obama's reelection bid, they argue, the new investigation is aimed at tanking the next possible Democratic nominee — former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Agreed. IMO, Benghazi is one of the biggest political kerfuffles over nothing in my lifetime. There's even less merit to this "investigation" than the Lewinsky witch hunt- and that's saying a lot.

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1. Make no mistake: this is a media distraction at its' best.

The billionaires backing the tea party are trying to take down Hillary Clinton and Obama before 2016 even begins. We can't let them get away with this!