OMG - the lunatics are running the asylum. You gotta check this out:

[BigBearJohn]

When House Republicans called a hearing in the middle of their long recess, you knew it would be something big, and indeed it was: They accidentally blew the CIA’s cover.

The purpose of Wednesday’s hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee was to examine security lapses that led to the killing in Benghazi last month of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three others. But in doing so, the lawmakers reminded us why “congressional intelligence” is an oxymoron.


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New details of what led to Ambassador Christopher Stevens’s death in Libya emerged this afternoon. In a heated, partisan back-and-forth, Darrell Issa said security at the mission in Benghazi could have been better. Diplomatic correspondent Anne Gearan joins us, to tell us what she heard in the hearing.
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Through their outbursts, cryptic language and boneheaded questioning of State Department officials, the committee members left little doubt that one of the two compounds at which the Americans were killed, described by the administration as a “consulate” and a nearby “annex,” was a CIA base. They did this, helpfully, in a televised public hearing.


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-letting-us-in-on-a-secret/2012/10/10/ba3136ca-132b-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html

[Generic Other]

1. Why were they there?

I can think of several reasons. Not all of them good.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. Stumbling bumbling idiots presume to call our President to account.

And in process cavalierly expose national security secrets. Just how stupid do you have to be to be rejected by Republican voters? (That is a rhetorical question like, "How deep is a bottomless pit?" I don't really expect an answer.)

[CakeGrrl]

3. Thus exposing the depth of

their hatred and contempt for the President yet again. They charge into walls trying to tear him down, and get up and do it again.

It's pretty disturbing.

[Berlum]

4. The Republicans cut $100 million from the US embassy security budget

Beghazi happened because the Republicans slashed security.

End of discussion.

Republicans are to blame.
And now they are trying to blame someone else.

As usual.