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Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 02:57 PM Apr 2016

GOP’s Benghazi Committee just keeps going (and going) ~ Rachel Maddow Blog MSNBC

Remember the House Republicans’ Benghazi Committee? It was nearly six months ago that the GOP-led panel held a farcical, 11-hour hearing with Hillary Clinton, which only reinforced suspicions that the committee served no legitimate purpose.

That was October of last year. Believe it or not, the investigation still exists, and the panel’s Democratic minority issued a statement yesterday announcing the committee’s newest milestone.
[Thursday] marks the 700th day since the authorization of the Select Committee on Benghazi. During this time, Republicans have discovered no new evidence that contradicts the key findings of the previous bipartisan and independent investigations.

“As House Republicans drag on their taxpayer-funded partisan attacks on Secretary Clinton closer and closer to the election, their actions have shockingly become even more partisan, secretive, and dysfunctional,” said Ranking Member Elijah Cummings.



I can appreciate why these totals may seem abstract, but to put this in context, the 9/11 Commission, investigating every possible angle to the worst terrorist attack in the history of the country, worked for 604 days and created a bipartisan report endorsed by each of the commission’s members.

The Benghazi committee is now on its 701st day, and even some congressional Republicans have admitted the panel is a partisan exercise, making it that much more difficult to justify its prolonged existence.


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GOP’s Benghazi Committee just keeps going (and going) ~ Rachel Maddow Blog MSNBC (Original Post) Her Sister Apr 2016 OP
They will still be meeting 4 years from now liberal N proud Apr 2016 #1
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more from Maddow's Blog Her Sister Apr 2016 #3
milking it for all they can get 2naSalit Apr 2016 #4
 

Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
2. Forgot link ~ Just added
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 03:07 PM
Apr 2016

It's so ridiculous! and glaringly obvious! They really don't want her as the nominee.

 

Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
3. more from Maddow's Blog
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 03:10 PM
Apr 2016
Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-S.C.) Benghazi panel has also lasted longer than the investigations into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, the Iran-Contra scandal, Church Committee, and the Watergate probe.

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)
4. milking it for all they can get
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 03:14 PM
Apr 2016

from it. Do these asswipes also get extra income for heading these kangaroo circuses?

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