Well, I’ve been remiss over the years since 2012 in covering the BENGHAZI!!! “scandal” on these pages.
So allow me to make up for some of that lost time today, with this article just out from AP tonight:
Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, intelligence about who carried it out and why was contradictory, the report found. That led Susan Rice, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to inaccurately assert that the attack had evolved from a protest, when in fact there had been no protest. But it was intelligence analysts, not political appointees, who made the wrong call, the committee found. The report did not conclude that Rice or any other government official acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the American people.
The House Intelligence Committee report was released with little fanfare on the Friday before Thanksgiving week. Many of its findings echo those of six previous investigations by various congressional committees and a State Department panel.
The article continues describing the findings of the House Intel Committee report which its Republican chair Rep. Mike Rogers (MI) and Democratic ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (MD) announced today. Among those findings, in response to the epic reports of a “stand down order” said to have been issued by the CIA or the State Dept. or the White House, AP reports: “None of that is true, according to the House Intelligence Committee report.”
You get the idea.
Nonetheless, as AP notes, “the eighth Benghazi investigation is being carried out by a House Select Committee appointed in May.” That special select committee, convened by Congressional “conservatives”, is set to cost tax payers some $4 million. How very “conservative” of them.
Oh my fucking word, there’s gonna be an EIGHTH Benghazi investigation???!!!!!!!!!
Well, that’s the way to get to the bottom of something that doesn’t exist but you’re determined to find–just keep having investigations till you get one that can make up the stuff your belief system requires.
Gotta love these small government, anti-government spending, anti- government over-reach Republicans who will spare no expense or grope-around when it comes to pursuing their own twisted agendas.
If they really need to jerk off so badly, I wish more of them would follow the David Vitter method and just get some professional jerk-off help. Be a lot less expensive for the country and would do more for the working class than anything else they’ve offered.
Oh no, what will FOX News have to talk about now?
How Obama somehow found a way to undermine this Benghazi report.
Also, please notice how much all those take responsibility Republicans are going to continue to NOT take responsibility for this year in year out jerk around.
…to be silently stuffed down the memory hole, never to be heard from again.
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Told ya–
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/graham-benghazi-report-full-crap
“Everybody’s got a hungry heart.” – Bruce Springsteen
But eating the poison fruit of a poison trance is not nourishment (Choose Your Trances Carefully).