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In reply to the discussion: A visibly angry Hillary Clinton just went off on Republicans for their Benghazi investigation [View all]karynnj
(59,808 posts)The President does have leverage - even if it is limited. However, I doubt that even if he was willing to put 100% of his own political capital behind it he could not stop this investigation.
As McCarthy said one thing it has done is to possibly help the Republicans in 2016. Now, imagine that HRC had either not used a personal server or had a process to collect the email and weekly or monthly move it to SD archives. Benghazi would not have ANY teeth - just as it didn't in the first several hearings. It was tragic and the SD investigated what they should change going forward.
The ONLY thing that gained traction was the email server. This has hurt both the SD and HRC - as both have been attacked as not being responsive. I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for HRC on this. She KNEW there were FOIA that should be given some of the emails -- and she did NOTHING proactively to insure the SD had them.