Boehner launches Benghazi Web site

[Redfairen]

Source: Washington Post

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced the creation Wednesday of a new page on the Republican Party Web site on which the party plans to publish information and documents related to the attacks of Sept. 11 and 12, 2012, on two U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, as House Republicans continue to accuse President Obama of stonewalling their attempts to investigate the attack further.

The site -- GOP.gov/Benghazi -- contains the House and Senate committee reports of their investigations into the Benghazi attacks, which killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, as well as transcripts and notes from various congressional committee hearings on the attacks.

"This site brings the facts straight to the American people by way of hundreds of pages of documents and transcripts the White House doesn't want you to read," Boehner's press office wrote in a release announcing the new Web page. "The investigation is ongoing, and the search for the truth continues, so new documents will be added as they are made available."

.......

"Shortly after the attack, House Republicans asked the Obama administration to explain to the American people the Administration's actions leading up to and during the attack itself, as well as the fact that publicly-available information consistently contradicted Administration accounts describing the cause and nature of the attack," the introduction on the Web page declares. "Our fight for answers and justice continues today."

Read more: http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02/05/republicans-accuse-obama-of-stonewalling-on-benghazi/

[DURHAM D]

1. lol -

Good. That is a great way to waste money.

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. My God are they desperate or what?

It's hilarious and it just goes to show you the extents they have to go to smear the current President.

[onehandle]

3. BONER. nt

[adirondacker]

20. Boehnghazi! nt

[bigworld]

4. They are setting their sights on Hillary

... this isn't about Obama, anymore. It's all they have to try and smear the next president!

[JDPriestly]

31. Smearing Hillary is a piece of cake.

That's one of the reasons why I think she would be a poor choice of candidate.

Hillary is speaking to corporate donors and bankers and as I understand getting paid for it.

Former Secretary of State, and presumed 2016 presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton spoke at two separate Goldman Sachs events in the past week (on October 24, and then again on October 29), for a cool $200,000 per speech, her normal fee according to Politico and the New York Times. $400,000—not a bad payday for the former First Lady.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/14/1255675/-Goldman-Sachs-Pays-Hillary-400-000-in-One-Week

In 2012, Romney spoke to a dinner of rich insiders, flattering them and dissing the rest of us. Someone taped his speech. We got to hear that tape. It was one of the things that caused Romney's defeat. (Not by any means the only one.)

Hillary has the money to run, but I don't think she has enough to silence all the bad rap she is going to get.

In the particular case of Clinton, as executive editor of The Nation Richard Kim recently argued, the idea that a figure so enmeshed in the world of the economic and political elite could adequately deliver the populist solutions the nation now so badly needs is absurd.

According to Kim's assessment, it would be "hard to imagine a Democrat of national stature more ill-equipped to speak" to the "populist mood" of the country than the former Secretary of State. He writes:

Yes, her tenure at State gave her the rehabilitating Texts From Hillary Clinton Tumblr and the thickest diplomatic passport the world has ever known, but a taste for class warfare it most certainly did not. To wit: her decision to house her post-cabinet, pre-campaign apparatus at the foundation her husband started, now rechristened the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. The organization, and the related Clinton Global Initiative, carries some lofty intentions—planting trees in sub-Saharan Africa, empowering women and girls, treating HIV and malaria, and saving endangered elephants. But as Alec MacGillis captured in a devastating feature for The New Republic, it also serves as a kind of global plutocrats’ social club—a Davos on the Hudson where corporate executives pledge millions for the privilege of rubbing elbows with celebrities and world leaders.

Citing the Clinton's gold-plated rolodex—which includes "billionaires and corporate giants like Walmart, Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein, Mike Bloomberg, Hollywood mogul Steve Bing and Paychex chairman Tom Golisano"—Kim acknowledged that though Hillary may not
"solicit the advice of all these folks," she will almost surely "solicit their donations."

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/31-3

The wealthy investors do not invite a speaker in order to have her insult or chastise them. But most liberal Americans feel that the wealthy in investors and bankers are taking more than their share of the country's wealth.

So, if the wealthy do not want to hear what most Americans would like to tell them, I would like to know what Hillary is telling them. Is she telling them what they want to hear or what ordinary Americans would like them to hear?

I don't think that the populist swing in the nation is going to go away very soon. The inequality is cutting too deeply into the lives of ordinary Americans. The loss of benefits for the long-term unemployed and the decrease in food stamp funding are going to hurt people. I am dubious about Hillary's judgment in courting bankers in a populist period. Occupy Wall Street set oof the populist streak, and I don't think it will end until we get some serious reform.

[denverbill]

5. 100% the only reason they are doing this is Hillary Clinton.

She crushes every Republican and Democrat in the polls and this is the only thing they can remotely tarnish her with, feeble as it is.

[asjr]

6. So far they think this is the way to get rid

of Pres. Obama. I am really afraid what they might do if it doesn't work.

[classof56]

7. Hundreds of pages of documents and transcripts the White House doesn't want us to read?

Couldn't they just post the Cliff Notes? Better yet, perhaps the Tea Baggers will post summaries in words of one syllable or fewer so their followers will be able to read all the good stuff.

Good grief!

[iamthebandfanman]

8. Will they have a site for

the 13 attacks against embassies/consulates that resulted in the loss of American life during bushes administration

[Grassy Knoll]

11. Everybody Knows Obama was in charge....

during Bush's 8 years.

[truthisfreedom]

9. And NOBODY who is voting for Hillary is going to visit

this site. Waste of time and energy, which makes me happy.

[busterbrown]

10. I wonder if there will be a section in their fucking Benghazi Web Site

which will discuss this!!!


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/16/1209694/-BUSTED-Republicans-caught-altering-Benghazi-e-mails

[EC]

12. Why do I get the feeling it will be selective

in the info posted?

[Grassy Knoll]

13. Look at the stupid fucking foxbot....

get ass rash because Obama mugged a dopey fake TV show.

[BootinUp]

14. Go Fuck Yourself Boehner!

[Blue Owl]

15. Boner Launches Dick Move

n/t

[The Wizard]

16. Is The Speaker

sabotaging the teahaddists?

[SCVDem]

17. Paybacks a bitch!

Time to go after the Bush administration for the Iraq lies and war crimes.

All because of Boehner.

BTW asshole! Where is my extended unemployment?

[Nuh Uh]

18. It was Condoleeza Rice that was responsible for Benghazi

Make no mistake, if Condoleeza Rice and George Bush had not released two terrorists from Guantanamo, we would not be discussing Benghazi today. In 2007, they released Abu Sufian bin Qumu, and Ahmed Abu Khattala, the Wapo discusses it here http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/former-guantanamo-detainee-implicated-in-benghazi-attack/2014/01/07/c73fdf78-77d5-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html
This is one fact that actually shuts them up and they cannot find an answer for, notice that they conveniently left this information off of their website. No wonder.

[hobie]

23. Thanks!

I read this before and it slipped my mind, but quite right. Our Dem website could lay all these connections into the event, and present our own time line of important events with quotes from witnesses.

[TexasTowelie]

27. Thanks for the link

and welcome to DU!

[another_liberal]

19. File this one . . .

We should file this one under, "Beating dead horses."

It's too late to play to the Tea Party base, John. They already want your head on a pike.

[hobie]

21. We need not fear the truth

This is the first thing Boner has done that I appreciate, the gathering of the truth, and hopefully there isn't any clips laying on the cutting room floor.

The way to take advantage of this, IMO, is to create a Democrat website which would feature a link to all these documents, and then add in what Boner left out.

1.That Republicans cut the Paul Ryan embassy security budget, that Hill protested their move and told them exactly what would happen, and that republicans stand by those budget cuts.

2.That Whistler blower Hicks turned off his phone on a 911 Anniversary to watch his cartoon shows while Steven's was desperately calling for help just before he died.

3.That Steven's rejected more security being needed and had left the turn style unlocked on the 911 anniversary that the terrorists stormed through according to guards present. That Stevens has a safe room to protect him, and chose to leave it, and this miscalculation caused his own death.

I think it should include every mean spirited quote from Issa that has now been proven to be lies.

And it should include other views by our Democrats on the committee to refute the lies Boner's crew is pulling.

So it does work to our advantage.

[TexasTowelie]

28. I think that your plan is okay, but I seriously doubt that anybody that believes the garbage

spewed by right-wingers is going to go to a Democratic Website for verification.

Welcome to DU!

[sakabatou]

22. Boehner's such a bone-head

[Beacool]

24. They really must fear a Hillary run.

To them is a win-win. Trying to make both Obama and Hillary look bad. It won't work. They are preaching to the choir. The only ones who care about the fake scandal are the ones who were going to vote for them anyway.

[WeekendWarrior]

25. I think we should launch websites for each of the embassy attacks under Bush

I mean, seriously?
Come on, Bonehead.

[Skittles]

26. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Rex]

29. Wow how pathetic. It seems like the desperation is at an all time high.

[catbyte]

30. OMfG. Where are the "jobs, Jobs, JOBS!?"

[jmowreader]

32. Come on. They've created four or five.

They have two people to surf teabagger websites looking for made-up Benghazi shit, two people to make up Benghazi shit on their own, and one to post it all online.

[world wide wally]

33. Benghazi = Republicansese word for I hate Obama

[Javaman]

34. red meat for the morons. nt

[yurbud]

35. like his old one demanding accountability for Bush/Cheney for 9/11?

oh wait, they didn't give a shit about that.

My bad.