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UCmeNdc

(9,589 posts)
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 01:39 PM Oct 2015

Benghazi Committee Rigged To Take Down Clinton

When the House select committee investigating the 2012 attacks on American government outposts in Benghazi, Libya, was created, Democrats immediately criticized it as a partisan effort to damage the political fortunes of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But Representative Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican and former federal prosecutor who is the committee’s chairman, told Fox News at the time: “I have no friends to reward and no foes to punish. We’re going to go wherever the facts take us.”

Now, 17 months later — longer than the Watergate investigation lasted — interviews with current and former committee staff members as well as internal committee documents reviewed by The New York Times show the extent to which the focus of the committee’s work has shifted from the circumstances surrounding the Benghazi attack to the politically charged issue of Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/us/politics/clinton-emails-became-the-new-focus-of-benghazi-inquiry.html

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Benghazi Committee Rigged To Take Down Clinton (Original Post) UCmeNdc Oct 2015 OP
Boehner wanted the committee to "cause political problems for her campaign." para 25 buried... riversedge Oct 2015 #1
Good catch! UCmeNdc Oct 2015 #2
This cannot be reported enough after months of FOX news oasis Oct 2015 #3
and teevee gnewz jumped on board gleefully. they NEED the horse race to be close. pansypoo53219 Oct 2015 #4
My spouse said that from get-go. raven mad Oct 2015 #5
This was self-evident. Beacool Oct 2015 #6

riversedge

(69,722 posts)
1. Boehner wanted the committee to "cause political problems for her campaign." para 25 buried...
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 01:46 PM
Oct 2015

And the gop speaker is up this neck in this pig poop also


....Senior Republican officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were discussing confidential conversations, said that Mr. Boehner had long been suspicious of the administration’s handling of the attacks and that Mrs. Clinton’s emails gave him a way to keep the issue alive and to cause political problems for her campaign. But he thought that the task was too delicate to entrust to others and that it should remain with Mr. Gowdy, the former prosecutor......

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/us/politics/clinton-emails-became-the-new-focus-of-benghazi-inquiry.html?_r=0

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
6. This was self-evident.
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 05:44 PM
Oct 2015

Funny how the media carried water for so long for the GOP, and now that McCarthy accidentally lifted the lid on the Republican's putrid motives, they smell blood in the water. These hearings are about to come to a close.

A someone once said, the Clintons are lucky in their enemies. Republicans always go for overkill.



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