Democrats: Benghazi chairman ignores statement by GOP lawyer

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Democrats: Benghazi chairman ignores statement by GOP lawyer

Matthew Daly, Associated Press

Updated 4:27 am, Monday, May 16, 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Benghazi committee's Republican chairman is ignoring statements by his own former lawyer indicating that the U.S. military acted properly on the night of the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Libya, the panel's Democrats said.

Reps. Elijah Cummings and Adam Smith said Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., omitted the lawyer's comments when he fired back at the Defense Department for criticizing the GOP-led investigation into the attacks that killed four Americans.

Gowdy's actions, coupled with delays that have pushed the 2-year-old inquiry into the heat of the 2016 presidential race, "have damaged the credibility of the Select Committee beyond repair," Cummings and Smith wrote Sunday in a letter to Gowdy.

. . .

Cummings of Maryland is the senior Democrat on the Benghazi panel; Smith, of Washington state, is the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. He also serves on the select Benghazi panel.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Democrats-Benghazi-chairman-ignores-statement-by-7470370.php

[Ford_Prefect]

1. With Trump heading the party Gowdy and the other GOP members need something to run on.

It is neither the first nor the last time GOP committee leaders ignored the inconvenient facts presented in testimony and written record. Like the Whitewater investigation it is intended to provide GOP political advertising at taxpayer expense.

The false narrative of the committee feeds the faux news addicts fixes that "prove" Clinton and Obama both are made of lies and that you cannot trust big government. It's ironic that the same GOP war hawks could not cheer loud enough the bombing attacks on Libya which led to the Benghazi events. The same dime store diplomats have encouraged more adventurous involvement there and in Syria, up to and including invasion: Anything for a laugh as long as the public is paying and the MSM is playing along.

[Gothmog]

2. Howdy Gowdy is a really bad lawyer

[lastlib]

3. Don't confuse him with facts.

They can't let little things like facts and truth get in the way of smearing Hillary Clinton.

[meow2u3]

4. The whole point of the Benghazi committee

is to smear and persecute Hillary Clinton so repunks can make her out to be a criminal. Nothing more, nothing less than a full-blown witch hunt.

[Chicago1980]

7. And apparently some of the Bernie supporters are buying into the conservative hype.

Not necessarily on Benghazi, but some of them are acting the same way when it come to speech transcripts.

Regarding the transcripts, one poster names 'onecaliberal' said... "When 67% think she's a liar, yeah I'd say it is." This was regarding the release of transcripts being paramount.

[Botany]

5. $7 million* and counting pissed away so far

http://askedandanswered-democrats.benghazi.house.gov/cost/


* $6,926,000 spent so far

[ffr]

8. $60,000,000 spent by the GOP to get Clinton impeached

Dig and dig and dig and dig. Then wash their hands of spending all that time and effort and to blindsiding our nation to...

And just enough democrats listened to the GOP and a few years later we couldn't pull off a convincing 2000 election victory

and we had this.

[Botany]

10. Look I am not HRC's biggest fan but if people can not see that these attacks on HRC are ....

.... swiftboating then they are blind.

Swiftboating = Kerry had a bronze star, a silver star, three purple hearts,
and didn't lose one person in some of the most hazdous duty in the war
so Rove and the right wing went after Kerry on his record in Vietnam.


HRC sent lots of emails doing her job as Sec. of State so the right wing
goes after HRC for her doing her job.

"They" have no shame.

[Skittles]

11. hatred for Hillary overrides any logic

the ones on DU especially make me sick

[Botany]

12. Hillary's email server had a private account!

https://www.freesound.org/people/x86cam/sounds/177769/

[Skittles]

13. certainly there are things to criticize Hillary for

but why DUers tend to sound like repukes is very troubling indeed

[Botany]

14. Let it go

I have been banned by both the Hillary and Bernie groups (Sanders group bummed me
back in)

Republican / Right Wing / Rush / Joe McCarthy / Fox / Koch Brother / and so on technique
Lie as big as day and just keep repeating that lie and you can create your own new reality.

i.e. "bush kept us safe"

And they could not do that if we really had an honest media.

[riversedge]

6. So, the Repugs are willingly cutting down the military in this dismissal...

.....WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Benghazi committee's Republican chairman is ignoring statements by his own former lawyer indicating that the U.S. military acted properly on the night of the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Libya, the panel's Democrats said.

[Jitter65]

15. Should make a pretty good campaign ad for Hillary going into the GE, nt