WaPo: The Benghazi panel is a scandal of a committee

[portlander23]

WaPo: The Benghazi panel is a scandal of a committee

What is this committee after? It’s not clear. Clinton was no more in charge of State Department security than she was of building maintenance. She was not chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and so could not have given the order not to attempt a rescue. (No rescue was practical anyway.) It was Susan Rice, not Clinton, who made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows giving a mangled account of what happened. Does the committee (in its wisdom) have the two women mixed up?

I understand that Clinton has botched this entire e-mail controversy. (I ask people about that, too.) She should never have used a private server in the first place, but it was apparently legal to do so. Nonetheless, her explanations have been all over the place, beginning with her reasons for doing so — not wanting to carry two devices. (What are aides for, anyway?)

If Clinton were more forthright, she might — my guess here — admit that she used a private server because she didn’t want her every thought to wind up in the hands of her political enemies. As if to prove the truth of the cliche that even paranoids have enemies, that’s precisely what’s happened.

Benghazi has become a Republican fixation. It is mentioned with utmost solemnity, virtual code for treason or something close to it. It is no longer an event, a debacle and a tragedy, but a totem: Something went wrong. Someone’s at fault. Why not Clinton? In the latest Republican debate, Carly Fiorina, she of the hallucinatory abortion procedure, accused Clinton of having a “track record of lying about Benghazi.” Yeah, sure. But give us an example, please.

The true Benghazi scandal is not what happened on the Libyan coast, but the use of a congressional committee for political purposes — to damage the likely Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, by rummaging through her e-mails. She’s handled this all wrong, but she shouldn’t have had to handle it at all.

Bingo on all accounts.

[Fred Sanders]

1. Bingo on one account. Bango on the other. How does the obvious sameness of the propaganda

between EGazhi and BGazhi elude any one who values truth over propaganda?

[Gothmog]

2. Howdy Gowdy is even more unethical than Issa

[UTUSN]

3. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

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[Archae]

5. Does anyone else think of Jim Traficant when they see that Gowdy guy?

Or Zippy the Pinhead?

[kairos12]

6. Gowdy's hair looks like he got swirled in a toilet.

[spanone]

4. it is about destroying the presidential run of Hillary Clinton. nothing more. nothing less.

and they're using taxpayer money to do it.

fuck the committee.

[kairos12]

7. Kangaroos have been protesting this committee.

[spanone]

8. bwahahahahaaaaaa

[kairos12]

9. He/she looks not amused.

[Jim Lane]

10. The only people on that committee who merit praise are the Democrats.

I know there was talk about boycotting this farce completely. I'm glad they didn't. It's better to have people on the inside who can keep track of every bit of foolishness.

The Democrats who agree to serve are taking one for the team. I'm sure they'd all rather be spending their time on serious legislative pursuits.

[fbc]

11. There should be a Committee to investigate the Benghazi Committees

The amount of money wasted on these committees is scandalous.