2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBenghazi 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 committees chairman, told Fox News at the time: I have no friends to reward and no foes to punish. Were 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 committees work has shifted from the circumstances surrounding the Benghazi attack to the politically charged issue of Mrs. Clintons 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
riversedge
(69,722 posts)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 administrations handling of the attacks and that Mrs. Clintons 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
UCmeNdc
(9,589 posts)oasis
(49,151 posts)false representations.
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)He was right.
Beacool
(30,244 posts)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.