Benghazi Biopsy: A Comprehensive Guide to One of America’s Worst Political Outrages

[Rose Siding]

This is a really good in-depth piece. I had completely missed some of the details covered in it. This witch hunt demonstrably had one purpose: Take down Hillary.

snip> The historical significance of this moment can hardly be overstated, and it seems many Republicans, Democrats and members of the media don’t fully understand the magnitude of what is taking place. The awesome power of government—one that allows officials to pore through almost anything they demand and compel anyone to talk or suffer the shame of taking the Fifth Amendment—has been unleashed for purely political purposes. It is impossible to review what the Benghazi committee has done as anything other than taxpayer-funded political research of the opposing party’s leading candidate for president. Comparisons from America’s past are rare. Richard Nixon’s attempts to use the IRS to investigate his perceived enemies come to mind. So does Senator Joseph McCarthy’s red-baiting during the 1950s, with reckless accusations of treason leveled at members of the State Department, military generals and even the secretary of the Army. But the modern McCarthys of the Benghazi committee cannot perform this political theater on their own—they depend on reporters to aid in the attempts to use government for the purpose of destroying others with bogus “scoops” ladled out by members of Congress and their staffs. These journalists will almost certainly join the legions of shamed reporters of the McCarthy era as it becomes increasingly clear they are enablers of an obscene attempt to undermine the electoral process.

The consequences, however, are worse than the manipulation of the electoral process. By using Benghazi for political advantage, the Republicans have communicated to global militants that, through even limited attacks involving relatively few casualties, they can potentially influence the direction of American elections. The Republicans sent that same message after the Boston Marathon bombing, where they condemned Obama for failing to—illegally—send the American perpetrators to Guantanamo, among other things. They slammed the president because federal law enforcement agents read the failed underwear bomber his rights after they arrested him in 2009. Never mind that federal agents did the exact same thing under President George W. Bush when they arrested the failed shoe bomber years earlier. Republicans even lambasted Obama when he spoke about ISIS decapitating journalists, saying the president did not sound angry enough.

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http://www.newsweek.com/benghazi-biopsy-comprehensive-guide-one-americas-worst-political-outrages-385853

It is remarkable that HRC is strong enough to weather the forces they tried to set against her, as she so clearly has done.

[KT2000]

1. Good article!

I don't think he missed anything - very thorough.
Now, how do we get it to stop. It surely can't be legal to use the power of government to harass a political candidate.

[Walk away]

2. There's no doubt about it. There is nothing more disgusting than a Repuglican!

They are the lowest form of life. We dodged a bullet when Joe Biden left the race. I hope the Clintons use everything in their arsenal on them for the eight years she is in office! We need a Democratic POTUS who has the strength to take on this Congress full of traitorous weasels.
It's not just about governing anymore.

[Gothmog]

3. Great article