TNR: The Benghazi Witch-Hunt Against Hillary Is Backfiring Just Like Bill Clinton's Impeachment

[BlueCheese]

Posted in GD and not GDP, because this is more about Republican malfeasance than the process of selecting our nominee.

The eighth Benghazi Committee has had a rough couple of weeks, with the latest self-inflicted wound being Trey Gowdy's fabricating evidence to accuse Hillary Clinton of outing a spy. (To be fair, Republicans have some firsthand experience with this kind of thing.) Brian Beutler of the New Republic summarizes it here:

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The House Select Committee on Benghazi has had glaring credibility problems from its inception. Even if you ignore the thicket of conservative Benghazi conspiracy theories Republicans spent years fueling, their interest in this one tragedy, plucked from a vast expanse of U.S. foreign policy tragedies over a decade, would have aroused suspicion that it was selected for its potential to damage the most powerful Democrat in the country (Barack Obama) and his presumptive heir (Hillary Clinton).

When the committee began to drift from its nominal investigative purpose—the 2012 attack on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed—and focus on unrelated aspects of Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state from 2009-2013, it invited comparisons to the GOP-led fishing expeditions of the 1990s, which culminated in the partisan impeachment of President Bill Clinton, and discredited his leading critics.

The comparison became inescapable this weekend, when the top Democrat on the Benghazi committee revealed that its Republican chairman, Trey Gowdy, had fabricated a redaction to Clinton’s emails to make it look like she’d endangered a spy, and the CIA had busted her. Gowdy even mimicked intelligence community vernacular, designating the redaction as undertaken to protect “sources and methods,” without disclosing that he was the redactor or that the CIA had cleared the name he redacted for release.

Rep. Elijah Cummings is going to have to go on a diet if he keeps eating Gowdy's lunch this way.

[randys1]

1. More proof how deeply teaparty hate America. Until America is lily white and str8t the

hatred will continue.

They want to love America, but they will have NONE of it as long as non white males are involved.

[LonePirate]

2. I hope Clinton mops the floor with Gowdy on Thursday.

He and his fellow Repubs certainly deserve it and she is more than capable of making it happen.