Nancy Pelosi: Families of Benghazi victims have asked us not to launch new committee

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-- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the families of victims of the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attack have reached out to lawmakers to ask them not to launch another probe into the incident.

"Two of their families have called us and said, 'Please don't take us down this path again,'" Pelosi said during her weekly press conference. "It's really hard for them. It's very sad."

Rep. Louise Slaughter's (D-N.Y.) office confirmed that a family member from the maternal side of Tyrone Woods' family called on Thursday to express support for the congresswoman's position on the issue, which is that another probe is not necessary. Woods was one of the CIA contractors killed in the attack. A Democratic aide said another family also has reached out to Democrats.


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[Cha]

1. Boner's a Liar. Thank you Nancy for the report on how the Families feel about it.

thank you, bigtree

[okaawhatever]

2. K & R nt

[DirkGently]

3. Republican ghouls see American tragedy as something to exploit. n/t

[alittlelark]

4. KnR ... It has hit an embarrassing and ludicrous stage

[BarbaRosa]

5. I doubt the families even

enter in the gop equation.

[calimary]

6. And the GOP will listen to them the way they listened to the Jersey Girls, and to the parents of

Sandy Hook, among others. They have an agenda, after all, and that's what's REALLY important.

[pacalo]

7. The Republicans don't have a shred of decency to comply with the families' wishes

& they will proceed with their plans like bulls in a china shop.

If the Republicans insist on continuing to throw away millions of taxpayers' money on this sham, the Democrats should participate & use their five members on the panel to break the veneer of the Republicans' distorted reality. "Public perception" is what drives them to create their lies & disinformation.

With the Democrats participating on the committee, they would be in a position to invite these families to the opening day of the committee hearing to express how hurtful this political ploy is to them.

There are questions regarding Republican hypocrisy that beg to be asked publicly, such as, "Why didn't the Republicans express the same outrage about Bush/Cheney misleading the country into the Iraq invasion, which caused so many deaths of our Americans?" It's time for the Democrats to be forthright & to call it like it is -- out in the open & putting the Republicans' lack of integrity/character on full display in front of the cameras they crave so much.

[onecaliberal]

9. Democrats needs to do

Exactly what you just laid out. You are so right. Expose the naked emperors once and for all.

[pacalo]

10. Thank you, onecalberal.

Welcome to DU!

[onecaliberal]

13. You're welcome!

And thank you!

[DallasNE]

8. This Is What Real Leadership Look Like

Pelosi has it, Boehner does not. It is that simple.

Will Boehner attempt to find another member of those families willing to support a probe and thus tear apart these families? That would be a huge mistake. HUGE.

[oneofthe99]

11. This is huge

[oneofthe99]

12. bump