The Latest Wing-Nut Bengazi OUTRAGE.......

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GOP-Controlled Intelligence Committee Debunks Benghazi Conspiracies
By Jeremy Stahl at Slate

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...onspiracy.html

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Republican Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers of Michigan and the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, gave this statement as they released the report:

For over two years, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence exhaustively investigated the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi Libya. We spent thousands of hours asking questions, poring over do ents, reviewing intelligence assessments, reading cables and emails, and held a total of 20 Committee events and hearings. We conducted detailed interviews with senior intelligence officials from Benghazi and Tripoli as well as eight security personnel on the ground in Benghazi that night. Based on the testimony and the do ents we reviewed, we concluded that all the CIA officers in Benghazi were heroes. Their actions saved lives.


The report echoed the findings of a similar bipartisan review panel by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released earlier this year along with five previous investigations.


The Benghazi Select Committee, created by House Speaker John Boehner, will continue to investigate Benghazi. A democratic member of that committee, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, urged it to shift its focus to security at State Department facilities

Yep...look for the GOP to waste tax dollars impeaching Obama....

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House intel panel debunks many Benghazi theories

A two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee has found that the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and

asserted no wrongdoing by Obama administration appointees. BOOM!

Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that

there was no intelligence failure, BOOM!

no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, BOOM!

no missed opportunity for a military rescue, BOOM!

and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria. BOOM!

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ecc3a...ghazi-theories

but ... Benghazi FOREVER!

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How Fox News Dismissed Today’s Benghazi Report in Less Than 30 Seconds

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/how-fox-n...an-30-seconds/



Benghazi Forever! Hillary Did It!

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read the report: http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/...i%20Report.pdf

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Dan, a serious question.

Are you saying that not learning from past events is acceptable?

Serious question: were the $14 million dollars it cost to investigate worth the lessons learned?

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the old SC lesbian can't stop scissoring with his Benghazi

House Republicans' Benghazi report divides Republicans

"I think the report is full of crap," Graham said on CNN's "State of the Union."

The senator insisted that members of the administration altered the Benghazi talking points after the attack.

"I'm saying that anybody who has followed Benghazi at all knows that the CIA deputy director did not come forward to tell Congress what role he played in changing the talking points," he said. "

And the only way we knew he was involved is when he told a representative at the White House, I'm going to do a hard review of this, a hard rewrite."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/1...8Daily+Kos%29#

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Democrats say Republicans 'hiding' witnesses in Benghazi probe

Democrats on Tuesday accused a Republican lawmaker of hiding witnesses from members of a special panel investigating the deadly 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
The panel chairman, Representative Trey Gowdy, countered that Democrats were looking for excuses to leave the committee,

Obama administration officials said during a hearing that they had already handed over 40,000 pages of do ents to the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

"We have a situation where witnesses have been hidden from us," mings told reporters after a hearing Tuesday. mings said Democrats had learned that Gowdy and his staff interviewed five people without telling Democrats, then "buried" extracted information that did not fit Republican allegations.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...e=politicsNews

Benghazi!

Confederate racist South Carolina!

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another dumb Repug

Top Republican admits Benghazi Committee is all about attacking Hillary Clinton

Kevin McCarthy, likely next speaker of the House, gets a little too honest about what he thinks his party has accomplished with its congressional majority:

“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable right?

But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a select committee.

What are her numbers today?

Her numbers are dropping," McCarthy said.

"Why? Cause she’s untrustable.

But no one would have known any of that had happened had we not fought and made that happen,”

Elijah mings, the ranking Democrat on the Benghazi Committee, responds:

“This stunning concession from Rep. McCarthy reveals the truth that Republicans never dared admit in public: the core Republican goal in establishing the Benghazi Committee was always to damage Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and never to conduct an even-handed search for the facts.

It is shameful that Republicans have used this tragedy and the deaths of our fellow Americans for political gain. Republicans have blatantly abused their authority in Congress by spending more than $4.5 million in taxpayer funds to pay for a political campaign against Hillary Clinton.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...28Daily+Kos%29

And your Repug rightwingnuts got suckered YET AGAIN by Repug lies and slander, and, you still are!

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Here's McCarthy also admitting Repugs are ACORNing / Shirley Sherrod-ing /Benghazi-ing Planned Parenthood.


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP.../29/cg.01.html

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Everyone already knew this was all about nothing and now they admit it. Shocking? Not to the wise.

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Everyone already knew this was all about nothing and now they admit it. Shocking? Not to the wise.

Repugs successfully destroyed ACORN and Shirley Sherrod with the lies, slander, stings, bogus videos, so they were encouraged to do the same to Hillary and PP.

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many Repugs TRASHING McCarthy for his gaffe of telling the truth. Any actual truth from the lying Repugs is considered a gaffe.

Will McCarthy be elected Speaker next week?

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GOP Leader Booed While Defending Benghazi Committee

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-R), the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, was booed by the audience at the Washington Ideas Forum Thursday while defending the GOP's congressional investigations into the Benghazi attack, The Huffington Post reported.

According to The Huffington Post, the audience booed, hissed and yelled "You're lying!" while McMorris Rodgers attempted to deny that the Benghazi committee was politically-motivated. She had been asked by ABC's Jonathan Karl to weigh in on comments made by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in which he boasted that the committee's investigation had taken a toll on Hillary Clinton's poll numbers.

"I do believe that the work that we're doing in the Benghazi committee is very important," McMorris Rodgers said, during which, according to the Huffington Post, the audience's disapproval only grew louder.

"We've not yet had important questions answered," she continued.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29

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House GOP Debates Fundraising Off Benghazi

House Republicans now battling over whether or not it's okay to fundraise off Benghazi. Benghazi committee chair Gowdy asks Republicans not to fundraise off Benghazi. House GOP campaign committee already has. Boehner won't ask them to stop.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/house-gop-debates-fundraising-off-benghazi?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm _campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

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Benghazi Committee Interviewed Witnesses without even Notifying Democratic Members

SCHIFF: ...if you look at the way the committee has operated, notwithstanding these promises that were made by the speaker and by our chairman in the very beginning, they have not worked with Democrats at all, they've called witnesses without telling us, they've subpoenaed people with armed marshals who were wiling to cooperate, and they have interviewed witnesses without even notifying the minority party, and when those witness interviews didn't corroborate their conspiracy theories, they didn't even tell us. We had to learn about those interviews ourselves.HAYES: Wait, wait, wait - let me make sure I understand that. The committee has interviewed witnesses without notifying Democrats on the committee that those interviews were going to happen?

SCHIFF: Absolutely. They've interviewed several witnesses, they didn't tell us they were going to interview them. They didn't invite us to participate and listen to the interviews. And when we later found out those interviews took place, and we talked to those witnesses, we learned of course that they didn't corroborate any of the conspiracy theories that the Republicans were trying to advance. So no wonder they didn't tell us about the interviews.

HAYES: How can that be? Maybe I'm wrong here, but that's not the way committees work. There's an agenda that's circulated to the entire committee. There's a list of witnesses. There's a procedure that the committee is all read in on.

SCHIFF: Well, they just ignored it. And in fact, to give you yet another example, when they subpoenaed a witness, and this is a true (inaudible - break in audio)...that he won't leak transcripts, won't leak interviews. After almost all the interviews there have been profound leaks from the committee, and when Democrats said, "if you're going to leak the statements of the witness, why don't you release the entire transcript? If you're going to leak emails from this witness, release the entire transcript of their private interviews so the public can evaluate the entire context." And we have the right under their own rules to have a vote on this, and they've denied us even a vote on it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1...s?detail=email

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Benghazi Committee Interviewed Witnesses without even Notifying Democratic Members

SCHIFF: ...if you look at the way the committee has operated, notwithstanding these promises that were made by the speaker and by our chairman in the very beginning, they have not worked with Democrats at all, they've called witnesses without telling us, they've subpoenaed people with armed marshals who were wiling to cooperate, and they have interviewed witnesses without even notifying the minority party, and when those witness interviews didn't corroborate their conspiracy theories, they didn't even tell us. We had to learn about those interviews ourselves.HAYES: Wait, wait, wait - let me make sure I understand that. The committee has interviewed witnesses without notifying Democrats on the committee that those interviews were going to happen?

SCHIFF: Absolutely. They've interviewed several witnesses, they didn't tell us they were going to interview them. They didn't invite us to participate and listen to the interviews. And when we later found out those interviews took place, and we talked to those witnesses, we learned of course that they didn't corroborate any of the conspiracy theories that the Republicans were trying to advance. So no wonder they didn't tell us about the interviews.

HAYES: How can that be? Maybe I'm wrong here, but that's not the way committees work. There's an agenda that's circulated to the entire committee. There's a list of witnesses. There's a procedure that the committee is all read in on.

SCHIFF: Well, they just ignored it. And in fact, to give you yet another example, when they subpoenaed a witness, and this is a true (inaudible - break in audio)...that he won't leak transcripts, won't leak interviews. After almost all the interviews there have been profound leaks from the committee, and when Democrats said, "if you're going to leak the statements of the witness, why don't you release the entire transcript? If you're going to leak emails from this witness, release the entire transcript of their private interviews so the public can evaluate the entire context." And we have the right under their own rules to have a vote on this, and they've denied us even a vote on it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1...s?detail=email

Rapper severs penis, jumps off building and survives

Maria Puente, USA TODAY 4:51 p.m. EDT April 16, 2014

(Photo: Ian Stanford Ian Stanford / The Tennessean)


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News of a bizarre tragedy is emerging out of Los Angeles today, with TMZ, CNN and other media outlets reporting that a rapper named Andre Johnson of Northstar cut off his penis and jumped off a building, and survived.
Johnson, also known as Andre Roxx and Christ Bearer, according to TMZ, was with other members of Northstar in a second-floor apartment of a building in North Hollywood early this morning when suddenly and without warning, he mutilated himself and jumped from the balcony.
When they raced downstairs to find him, he was up and running around, screaming, TMZ said.
CNN quoted Los Angeles Police Sgt. William Mann as confirming that Johnson survived the fall and was taken, along with his recovered penis, to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was being treated.
No word yet on what might have triggered this but the people who were with him told TMZ that at the time they were not doing "the kind of drugs" that might cause such an act.
Initial reports claimed Johnson was "associated" with Wu-Tang Clan, but a publicist for the group, Heathcliff Berru, said Johnson is actually with Northstar. He's not in Wu-Tang Clan nor directly affiliated with it, Berru said, at least not in the eight years he's worked with the group.
However, Northstar, a Long Beach, California, hip-hop group, is on the list of WTC "affiliates," according to Wikipedia.
Johnson, who performs as Christ Bearer, has recording credits that include When the Guns Come Out, which was included on the soundtrack of the 2004 film Blade: Trinity, according to the Internet Movie Database.

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Kevin McCarthy: 'Stop playing politics' by quoting me accurately

“Let’s be very clear: Benghazi is not political,” Mc*Carthy said.

“It was created for one purpose and one purpose only: to find the truth on behalf of the families of the four dead Americans. Period.”

“The integrity of [committee chairman Rep.] Trey Gowdy, the integrity of the work that has been done has never come into question

Stop playing politics,”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1...28Daily+Kos%29

And other 5 Repug Benghazi!! committees?

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Democrats on Benghazi Committee Release Devastating Fact Sheet on Gowdy



FACT SHEET:How the Benghazi Committee Targeted Hillary Clinton

Gowdy Cancelled All Planned Hearings Other Than Hillary Clinton’s After NYT Email Story

Before the New York Times broke its story on March 2 about Hillary’s Clinton’s emails, Gowdy had sent to Committee Members an investigative plan that set out monthly hearings with all the different agencies involved in preparing for and responding to the attacks in Benghazi, including the State Department, the Defense Department, and the Intelligence Community.

After the New York Times’ email story broke on March 2, however, Gowdy completely abandoned this plan and began focusing almost exclusively on Hillary Clinton.

Since then, Gowdy has not held any of the hearings on his schedule, and his upcoming hearing with Hillary Clinton is the only hearing now scheduled.

For example, Gowdy abandoned the hearing he had planned for April with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary Leon Panetta.

The Committee has never held even one public hearing with anyone from the Department of Defense. The Committee has held only one hearing with an intelligence official, but it was with the CIA’s head of Legislative Affairs regarding the status of do ent production.

Gowdy Dropped Key Interviews with Top Defense and Intelligence Leaders

Gowdy also abandoned plans he had made in February to start conducting interviews of the following top defense and intelligence leaders in April: former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, former CIA Director David Petraeus, General Martin Dempsey, and former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen.

He never invited any of these defense or intelligence leaders for interviews.

Gowdy then announced that he planned to start conducting the following interviews in June: former Defense Secretary Panetta, General Martin Dempsey, and General Carter Ham.

Those interviews were also abandoned.

Gowdy Scheduled New Interviews and Depositions of Hillary Clinton’s Associates

By the end of this month, Republicans will have interviewed or deposed 8 current or former Clinton campaign staffers, compared to only a total of four Defense Department officials.

Gowdy sent armed Marshals to serve a deposition subpoena on longtime Clinton associate Sidney Blumenthal despite the fact that he was completely cooperative and would have voluntarily appeared without a subpoena, but was never asked.

Gowdy later admitted that he “never expected Witness Blumenthal to be able to answer questions about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya.”

The Select Committee asked Blumenthal more than 160 questions about his relationship and communications with Clinton, but fewer than 20 questions about the Benghazi attacks; more than 50 questions about the Clinton Foundation, but only 4 about security in Benghazi; and more than 45 questions about David Brock, Media Matters and affiliated en ies, but no questions at all about Ambassador Stevens or other personnel in Benghazi.

Gowdy Stepped Up Aggressive Press Campaign Against Hillary Clinton

Since March, Gowdy’s press releases have focused almost entirely on Secretary Clinton.

Over the past nine months, he has issued 22 press releases related to Secretary Clinton (including one on Sidney Blumenthal’s emails with Clinton), but only 5 press releases on any other topic during that period.

Of the 5 non-Clinton press releases, three (1, 2, 3) are about the State Department’s compliance with do ent production, one marks the anniversary of 9/11, and one is Gowdy’s interim progress report.
The only do ents Gowdy has publicly released over the past 17 months were Clinton’s emails with Sidney Blumenthal, and Gowdy did this unilaterally with no debate or vote by the Select Committee.

At the same time, he has blocked the public release of Blumenthal’s deposition transcript, which would reveal all the questions Republicans asked about Hillary Clinton and other issues that have nothing to do with Benghazi.

Almost immediately after the interview with Cheryl Mills, Republicans began leaking inaccurate information to damage Clinton with unsubstantiated or previously debunked allegations, while refusing to release the complete transcript.

Gowdy refused to investigate or condemn a leak that made more unsubstantiated allegations against Clinton despite the fact that Politico was forced to correct a front-page story that relied on apparently doctored information about an email produced to the Select Committee.

Gowdy’s Taxpayer-Funded Political Campaign Against Clinton

The Committee was given an unlimited, taxpayer-funded budget, and it has now spent more than $4.6 million in one of the longest and least productive investigations in congressional history—focused on Clinton.

The Committee is being used by Republican fundraisers to attack Clinton.

The Committee’s attacks were described by the conservative PAC America Rising as a taxpayer-funded political activity: “This has all occurred without a single cent of paid advertising taking place.”
Gowdy’s name, image, and position has been used to solicit political donations by Stop Hillary PAC, which describes itself as “created for one reason only—to ensure Hillary Clinton never becomes President of the United States.

Gowdy appeared at a GOP political event in June where local Rep. Chuck Fleischmann explained: “Whether you are Hillary Clinton or any other lefty out there, you better beware because Trey Gowdy is out there and he is going to get you.”

Gowdy reportedly does not plan to release his findings until “just months before the 2016 presidential election.”

Gowdy’s approach has been criticized even by conservative commentators: “Whatever the findings are in this investigation—it will forever be plagued by allegations of unfairness, and politics if this investigation is dragged into 2016. That would not be fair to the American people.”

http://democrats.benghazi.house.gov/...-be-more-plain

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1...y?detail=email

The real beauty of the Repugs is that they are really, really stupid.

The real danger with the Repugs is that they are really, really stupid.

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Republicans in Apoplectic Meltdown Over McCarthy Gaffe


Kevin McCarthy Hands Over Election to Hillary

The lede to this column is a deep, guttural groan that originates in the throat and expands into the lungs before collapsing in the pit of the stomach. How do you spell hmmmgrrrungh?

What else is there to say about House Republicans' inability to get something right? And I say this with compassion, I really do. Because seriously? It's over. Done. Kaput.
With Kevin McCarthy's recent response to the simplest question about GOP accomplishments in Congress, from the friendliest interviewer, Sean Hannity, a GOPer could hope for, the future may as well be called Democrat.

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Charles Krauthammer criticized Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for making the “gaffe of the year,” and warned that selecting him as the next speaker of the House is a “risky proposition” for Republicans.
“If you don’t have the White House, the speakership is your voice,” Krauthammer said on Monday’s Special Report. “And in a television age, it is a very important one.”

“The gaffe that McCarthy made, I like the guy … but that’s the gaffe of the year,” Krauthammer continued. “And it has given Hillary a lifeline.”

“Do you want a guy who makes a mistake of that magnitude?” Krauthammer asked. “In terms of presentation, this is a risky proposition”

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When House speaker-in-waiting Kevin McCarthy claimed credit for the decline in Hillary Clinton's poll numbers because House Republicans had formed a congressional committee investigating the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, I knew it was a bad political mistake. I may have underestimated just how bad...

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you talk about benghazi more than the republicans

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you talk about benghazi more than the republicans

You Lie

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You Lie

nuh-uh

You Lie

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nuh-uh

You Lie

you rightwingnuts been obsessing about Benghazi!! FOR YEARS,

so GFY, McCarthy exposed you stupid ers as duped, demagogued, gullible idiots.

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you've been obsessing with benghazi for years too

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You Lie

I push back against you ignorant, duped Beghazi! obsessives.