REPUKES: Another Attempt To Embarrass Obama Backfires & BLOWS CIA's COVER

[kpete]

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.

DANA MILLBANK
via:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/10/11/wonder-why-were-not-hearing-more-about-the-gops-benghazi-witch-hunt/


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.

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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The Republican lawmakers, in their outbursts, alternated between scolding the State Department officials for hiding behind classified material and blaming them for disclosing information that should have been classified. But the lawmakers created the situation by ordering a public hearing on a matter that belonged behind closed doors.

Republicans were aiming to embarrass the Obama administration over State Department security lapses. But they inadvertently caused a different picture to emerge than the one that has been publicly known: that the victims may have been let down not by the State Department but by the CIA. If the CIA was playing such a major role in these events, which was the unmistakable impression left by Wednesday’s hearing, having a televised probe of the matter was absurd….

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

[KurtNYC]

1. echoes of Valerie Plame

[blogslut]

2. kicksies

[Cha]

3. This needs to go

VIRAL!

thank kpete

[riderinthestorm]

4. One day following this hearing, the US Yemeni embassy chief security officer is assassinated.

Coincidence? I don't think so.... Sounds like a direct consequence of the hearings.




(hat tip to JDPriestly who made this connection first on the other thread)

[Zalatix]

5. Shoot first, aim second, lose a toe.

[DisabledAmerican]

6. McCain Check out the house!!!

Look into the House John McCain!!!

[Ninga]

7. Good grief.....I could just curse.

[Berlum]

8. More treason from the RepubliWhackos

Why do Republicans HATE America?

[City Lights]

9. Who will be going to jail?

:crickets:

Republican suck. Plain and simple.

[chowder66]

10. Why do these people get elected? They just endanger us all. nt