Republican Benghazi-gate
by Donald Frye on 05/05/14Republicans are on another witch hunt to procure their Benghazi-Gate! When we don't have any other political angle to nail the President and Hillary Clinton on, let's bring out the smoking gun - Benghazi... again, and again, and again, and again!!! House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman, (R-Calif.) Darrell Issa, and Speaker of the House, John Boehner, along with (R-S.C) Sen. Lindsey Graham's constant barking of Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi has led to another attempt to secure blows against the Obama Administration. And, to blemish unannounced democratic frontrunner for 2016 Presidency, Hillary Clinton.
A newly released email from the White House on Benghazi has led to Republicans salivating at the mouth that they have found the smoking gun that Hillary didn't do her job efficiently, and that Susan Rice lied to America in her statements after the attacks. Rice, by the way, spoke directly to the intelligence gathered at the time by the CIA. Also, remember, that Mitt Romney and Republicans tried to nail the President as not classifying the Benghazi attack as terrorist related, but was publicly humiliated after Candy Crowley corrected that lie nationally, during the 2012 Presidential debates that, in fact, the President did say Terrorist Acts the day following the Benghazi attack that killed, Ambassador, Chris Stevens.
It is the utmost hypocrisy for Darrell Issa and John Boehner to constantly belabor the Benghazi incident as this Administration's fault, when there were twelve to thirteen similar attacks on U.S. Consulates and Embassies during the George W. Bush Administration. Some of the attacks had more casualties, though any casualty is tragic. Moreover, Republicans voted to decrease spending by over 100 million in 2011, when the President was requesting an increase to shore up security for our embassies around the world. So, who is really the blame for the Benghazi attack I would ask? While conservatives are so busy fighting every issue raised by Obama, they can't see clearly, or choose not to see at all, the threats that America faces everyday from abroad.
On March 2, 2006, American Diplomat, David Foy was killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. There has not to this day been an investigation of the George W. Bush Administration's failing to protect David Foy by either Republicans or Democrats.
Bottom Line: Republicans are trying to stop the freight train that is President Barack Obama, and trying to tarnish Hillary Clinton in advance of the 2016 elections.
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