"Will A GOP Aide Be Fired Over Benghazi Email Changes?"

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Will A GOP Aide Be Fired Over Benghazi Email Changes?

By Alex Seitz-Wald at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/17/will_a_gop_aide_be_fired_over_benghazi_email_changes/

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Now that we know a GOP congressional aide misleadingly edited — intentionally or not — Obama administration emails on the Benghazi attack, one wonders if he or she will face repercussions. There’s some precedent here. Former GOP Rep. Dan Burton used to hold Darrell Issa’s job as Chairman of the House Oversight Committee and used it to aggressively go after Bill Clinton on a host of controversies of various degrees of merit, much as Issa is doing now.

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Today, at least so far, Republicans have been mum on the apparent tampering of White House emails for political gain by one of their own. Of course, it’s entirely possible that the GOP staffers who leaked the Benghazi emails made an honest mistake when transcribing emails they were shown in a closed-door briefing with intelligence officials, but no one has come forward with an explanation and a mea culpa.

Meanwhile, Democrats were not satisfied with Bossie’s resignation. They noted that Burton himself released the transcript, and they called on the congressman to resign as well. “A committee staff member should not be made the scapegoat for Chairman Burton’s mistakes, missteps and misdeeds,” then-House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt said. Indeed, Burton himself said, “I take responsibility for those mistakes,” but never resigned or faced censure.

We still don’t know the full story of the edited Benghazi emails, but if someone intentionally fabricated information and then leaked it to reporters, that would seem to undermine the credibility of the entire investigation. Obama has fired someone for less this week.

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[Politicalboi]

1. He should be more than fired

That poor kid who peaked at Palin's e-mails went to jail. This most defiantly deserves jail time, and he should be fined for ALL the time congress has wasted on this shit. Or he can spill his guts and sing like a canary and nail some house GOP members who also knew the e-mails were reinterpreted.