NYT EDITORIAL: Shut Down the Benghazi Committee

[kpete]

The Opinion Pages | EDITORIAL

Shut Down the Benghazi Committee
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDOCT. 7, 2015

House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

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Lawmakers have long abused their investigative authority for political purposes. But the effort to find Mrs. Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the Libya attacks, was personally responsible for the deaths has lost any semblance of credibility. It’s become an insult to the memory of four slain Americans. ...

Mrs. Clinton is scheduled to testify before the committee on Oct. 22. The hearing will give Republicans another chance to attack the credibility and trustworthiness of the leading Democratic presidential candidate. It will do nothing to make American embassies abroad safer or help the relatives of the four killed in Libya.

The hearing should be the last salvo for a committee that has accomplished nothing. If the Republicans insist on keeping the process alive, the Democrats should stop participating in this charade.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shut-down-the-benghazi-committee.html?_r=0

[djean111]

1. The only thing email-gate and Benghazi meant to me was it shows how much the GOP hates Hillary

and how much they would not be working with her on anything but stuff they wanted to do in the first place.

[Xipe Totec]

2. It's nothing personal; they hate all women in general, and powerful women in particular. nt

[Raster]

3. Well, that, plus the vast, right-wingnut, fundigelical, froth-at-the-mouth hatred of the Clintons.

So, actually, it really is kind of personal.

[thesquanderer]

4. Not Palin or Fiorina, though... (n/t)

[ejbr]

5. Trustworthiness?

"Trustableness", thank you very much