Benghazi Committee Chair (Trey Gowdy "Doodie") gives away the game

[Bill USA]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/benghazi-committee-chair-gives-away-the-game
(all emphases my own)

As the House Republicans’ Benghazi committee enters its third year, no one seems to be able to explain exactly why the partisan panel still exists, when it’ll wrap up, or even why it was created in the first place.

Quotes like this one, published by USA Today, raise questions anew about this pointless waste of time and resources.

There was nothing the military could have done on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, to stop the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, but the special House committee investigating the terrorist incident will continue to probe the Pentagon’s actions that night, the committee’s chairman said Tuesday.

“Whether or not they could have gotten there in time, I don’t think there is any issue with respect to that. They couldn’t,” Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., told Fox News.

[font size="+1"]Wait, hold on. As regular readers know, the whole point of the right-wing conspiracy theory is built around the idea that the military could’ve done more to intervene in Benghazi the night of the September 2012 attack, but it didn’t for political reasons. It’s the basis for the ridiculous “stand down” nonsense right-wing activists have pushed for years without proof.[/font]

Military leaders, the State Department, and multiple congressional investigations all concluded that the conspiracy theory is wrong, but House Republicans don’t care, which is why they created a committee, led by Trey Gowdy, to tell conservatives what they want to hear.

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The panel’s ranking Democrat, Maryland’s Elijah Cummings, said in a statement, [font size="+1"]“Chairman Gowdy has finally admitted what we have all known for years. The central Republican allegation that the military was told to withhold assets that could have saved lives in Benghazi for political reasons was wrong.”[/font]
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[Botany]

1. $7 million* pissed away so far

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

*$6,745,000 and counting

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. This whole investigation thing was a result of fox news, who figured

this was the next best thing to Chappaquiddick.

[Bill USA]

3. it's the GOP's DREAM... have the public pay for a McCarthyist campaign against their most feared

opponent. And it has worked remarkably well. Look how many people who are either not capable of critical thinking - or not willing to make the effort - who think Clinton is untrustworthy - without any empirical evidence to base that conclusion meme on.

Of course the media has helped a lot on this political character assassination. Scott Pelley asked Clinton if she has "always told the truth" to the public (like she's the only human on Earth to do so). But in all the serial Benghazi political show trials did Pelley ever ask any Republican leader or any Republican Benghazi committee chair: "is this a real search for the truth?"

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. There really isn't any hope for anyone who didn't reject this whole

benghazi thing completely from the first day it was presented on fox. One look at that lice
chairman would be enough to make anyone with any sense realize what they were up to.

The sad fact is that for years the chimp got away with crimes against humanity and mums the word from these same bastards.

[ghostsinthemachine]

5. If we had only spent as much time investigating 9-11

Things would be very different today.

[libodem]

6. Ironic isn't it?