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appleannie1

(5,043 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 07:01 PM Apr 2013

Conspiracy-riddled House Republican 'Benghazi' report suffers fatal, very stupid flaw

[By tradition], every cable from an embassy bears the “signature” of the ambassador — and every cable from Washington bears the “signature” of the secretary of state. The protocol is explained in the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual: […]
Because of this protocol, “Secretary Clinton ‘signed’ hundreds of thousands of cables during her tenure as secretary,” said State Department spokesman Patrick H. Ventrell. “As then-Secretary Clinton testified, the security cables related to Benghazi did not come to her attention. These cables were reviewed at the assistant secretary level.”

Yep. The entire House Republican "investigative" team didn't know that, and they didn't check, and/or they didn't listen to Every Damn State Department Employee Who Could Tell Them That. Or, as Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings puts it:
“The allegations in your staff report are false, extremely irresponsible, and lack even a rudimentary understanding of how State Department cables are processed,” Cummings wrote in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). […]
“Although a telephone call could have clarified this issue in a matter of moments, you chose not to check with the Department before making these highly inflammatory and erroneous accusations in a public forum.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/26/1205051/-Conspiracy-riddled-House-Republican-Benghazi-report-suffers-fatal-very-stupid-flaw

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Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. I dont think it was ever the intent of GOP to produce clear facts, if they did it would have
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 08:04 PM
Apr 2013

Sounded reasonable and it would destroy their opportunity to cry conspiracy and ended their questions. They don't talk about the eleven times US facilities was struck and 53 lives lost during the Bush administration. Even now they are rewriting history about the invasion of Iraq because the Democrats voted for it.

sheshe2

(83,324 posts)
3. They are beneath contempt. Traitors to this country!
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 09:11 PM
Apr 2013
Has there ever been a Congress more incompetent than this one? I don't mean partisan, or mean, or ineffective—I mean stone-cold incompetent. This is the sort of thing that really should require a public pie in the face for all involved, and the House Republican caucus is just goddamn stupid enough that we could probably get that required public pie-ing passed as actual bill, providing we bury it in some language about continued oil subsidies or free guns to American toddlers.


Thank you, appleannie.

Kablooie

(18,571 posts)
6. If Republicans were interested in facts and reality...
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 06:49 AM
Apr 2013

Their whole ideology would collapse.
The only way they can continue to pursue their philosophy is to ignore and deny that any facts are relevant.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
7. Well, conspiracy theories never suffer from a 'fatal flaw'. You just do not understand the 'logic'
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 07:13 AM
Apr 2013

that they are using.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
8. Checking facts is contrary to their goal
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 07:21 AM
Apr 2013

Their goal appears to be a twofer, to hamstring the president in the present and to stop Hillary's run for the white house before she even announces in the long run.
Led by a thief, my o my

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