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the Bork and Thomas hearings come to mind. hearings related to Katrina and the firing of attorneys in 2006 were used as a political club against the sitting president.
any legitimate cause for investigation can be hijacked for political purposes, and often will be.
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In B4 effete academic navel-gazing gfy
Yeah I've never seen Maher get destroyed on his show half as badly as Greenwald destroyed him there.
raising commonplaces into outrages is the apparent prescription for that.
Bork went on to prove himself so ideologically extreme that keeping him out of SCOTUS was correct. but the Regugs still packed the court later with extreme assholes like Alito, Roberts, Thomas, Scalia
It was pretty clear than Thomas was and probably still is a sexual predator.
After Clinton left FEMA in great shape, the Repug ed it up, as was seen in Katrina, hearing justified
dubya's politicized attorneys were fired not for not enforcing the law, but for not finding the "widespread" voter fraud. hearings justified.
GFY
Issa: Obama Covered Up Benghazi Terrorism By Calling It An ‘Act Of Terror’
http://thinkprogress.org/security/20...act-of-terror/
Repugs/Fox make up , and flip-flop on it.
EXCLUSIVE: Embassy Staff Undercut ‘Whistleblower’ Testimony On Benghazi
Staff who served in Libya with Gregory Hicks, the GOP’s primary “whistleblower” in this week’s hearing on the Benghazi terror attacks, undercut his story that State Department officials demoted him as retribution for speaking out, instead telling ThinkProgress about a man who one described as “the worst manager I’ve ever seen in the Foreign Service.”
Throughout his testimony on Wednesday, Hicks seemed certain that any critique of his leadership style while serving as deputy chief of mission in Libya was based solely around anger related to his stance on Benghazi. He also blamed his subsequent assignment after being pulled from Libya in mid-Oct. 2012 on his speaking out against the Obama administration’s response to the attacks.
However, ThinkProgress has talked to staffers based in Libya who counter Hicks’ portrayal of both his own performance and the State Department’s alleged response to him speaking out. A meeting between Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Beth Jones and Hicks took place in Tripoli prior to his removal from Libya, but not under the same cir stances Hicks sought to portray. Counter to Hicks’ story of an unwarranted reassignment, the staff was upset with Hicks’ performance since he was first assigned to Tripoli on July 31, and told Jones as much prior to her meeting with Hicks.
“[Jones] and her aide had one-on-one meetings with us to see if [Hicks] could be guided into being a better leader,” a State Department employee posted to Libya told ThinkProgress. “Literally every single one of us begged for him to be removed from post,” said the employee, who spoke to ThinkProgress on the condition of anonymity, as they were not cleared to discuss personnel issues with the press.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/20...eblower-hicks/
Benghazi whistle-blower a Democrat, voted for Hillary and Obama twice
A key Benghazi whistle-blower who has allegedly been punished for speaking out against the administration is a registered Democrat who voted for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The lawyer of Gregory Hicks, the former U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya who testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday, confirmed the information to The Daily Caller on Saturday.
According to the lawyer, Victoria Toensing, Hicks voted for Clinton during the 2008 primary, and for then-Illinois Sen. Obama in the 2008 general election. He again voted for Obama in 2012.
“The fact is he is a registered Democrat in Virginia. The fact is he voted for Hilary in the primary and Obama and then again for Obama,” Toensing said.
Toensing added that she did not know he was a Democrat until the day before the hearing. “I’m not interested in that,” she said. “I’m interested in government not abusing its powers.”
Hicks testified before the House Oversight Committee this week regarding the events that took place on Sept. 11, 2012 in Benghazi and recalled how the State Department told him not to cooperate with the congressional investigation into the events, which led to the deaths of four Americans.
Hicks further testified that he has been demoted since Benghazi.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/11/be...#ixzz2TCsnoX3Z
Finally House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is explaining exactly why Benghazi is a scandal:
“Act of terror” is different than a “terrorist attack.”Duh. That’s why we’ve been talking about this for more than half a year… the president didn’t properly modify a noun.
Issa also points out that he could have caught a commercial flight to Libya in seven hours, though it probably would take him over 20.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/why-does...rorist-attack/
1%er Issa grandstanding and padding his short career
Chump is okay with no response. What difference does it make now?
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