White House may not cooperate with Benghazi select panel

[DonViejo]

By Justin Sink - 05/05/14 02:40 PM EDT

The White House suggested Monday it may not cooperate with a new House select committee investigating the terror attack in Benghazi.

Press secretary Jay Carney said that the White House has "always cooperated with legitimate oversight," but called the new probe a “highly partisan effort to politicize” the deadly attack.

"If you look at even what some Republicans have said, it certainly casts doubt on the legitimacy of an effort that is so partisan in nature," Carney said.
"I don't think there are many people, including some Republicans… who believe that this is necessary after seven congressional committees and multiple investigations," he added.

Carney refused to answer questions directly about whether the White House would cooperate, but he noted that there had been 13 congressional hearings, 50 member-and staff briefings, and over 25,000 pages of documents produced over the September 11, 2012 terror attack, in which four Americans were killed.



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[Turbineguy]

1. Well, they do

have a government to run.

Unlike Issa.

[Lee-Lee]

2. I think that would be a mistake

It will just give them way too many sound bites- "what are they hiding", "if you have nothing to hide why won't you cooperate".

I say play nice. Super nice. Give them every single thing they ask for, then more, ahead of when they ask for it and make them look like total asses when there is not a damn thing new that comes up.

Stonewalling just plays right into their narrative that something is being hidden.

[Gman]

3. They don't have the high ground on this and

people have moved on. There's an old saying that says "never play the other man's game". That's appropriate here.

[Fred Sanders]

4. But, but the email by a staff underling is the smoking gun, right? Republicans need to point the

gun at their own heads, figuratively speaking and that smoke you see is the propaganda fire they lit, wafting back into their own desperate faces.

[Aladeen2016]

5. Gee I seem to recall....

a certain someone and his VP refusing to appear before the house on any hearings
about, you know, FUCKING 9/11!

[Erose999]

6. They should just send Hillary to rip them to shreds like she did at the last hearing. And the phrase

"kangaroo court" should be used in all pressers and other communications related to these hearings.