Benghazi panel outs CIA source, then tries to cover its tracks

[Peacetrain]

Source: Yahoo Politics

House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in September. (Photo: Cliff Owen/AP)

The Republican-led House Select Committee on Benghazi hastily deleted the name of a high-level Libyan defector from one of its public releases on Monday, shortly after Yahoo News reported the panel had inadvertently revealed the defector’s name in an effort to embarrass Hillary Clinton.

The disclosure, followed by the quick wiping out of the name of ex-Libyan foreign minister Moussa Koussa (who had defected and become a source for the CIA on Libya), once again put the panel on the defensive on the eve of Thursday’s slated testimony from Clinton.

The incident was especially awkward for GOP chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy because just two weeks ago he had sought to make an issue over Clinton’s handling of an email that contained Koussa’s name............


Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/politics/house-benghazi-committee-chairman-trey-gowdy-200901550.html

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RUH ROH Trey Gowdy... now we will have to investigate you and your committee at least 8 or 9 times... tut tut

[randys1]

1. How fucked up is this country with these brain dead asshole children in power...amazing

These are the guys you wouldnt trust, literally, to wash your car before they became congress members

[Peacetrain]

2. ^^^^^^^^

Amen to that

[emulatorloo]

4. ...

[L. Coyote]

5. What power? Presumed power, imagined power, or fairy dusty power?

They are in Congress, but these clowns seem to have deprived themselves of all power with their own charades.

[wordpix]

9. here, here!

[Fred Sanders]

3. Not 8 or 9 investigations for Dowdy and the GOP necessary...one FBI investigation should do....

I would not be shocked if one had already commenced.

[Turbineguy]

6. Endangering national security.

Something that comes natural to today's republicans.

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. Taking down Hillary at any cost!

Even at the cost of national security.

[wordpix]

8. perfect sound bite, "Trey Gowdy - taking down Hillary at the cost of national security"

Use it, national Dems. Get Gowdy Doody out of office asap.

[Peacetrain]

12. ^^^^^^^^^

[cynzke]

10. LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT.....

The Bush Administration DELIBERATELY leaked/exsposed an AMERICAN CIA agent TO THE PRESS and they couldn't care less, NOW upset because Clinton used a name of a CIA Operative who may be responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, BRILLIANT!

[wordpix]

11. you missed the main point, though, which is Gowdy outed the operative

not Clinton.