Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said the special committee he'll lead on Benghazi could continue into the 2016 campaign, when Hillary Clinton might be running for the White House.
Asked about that possibility Wednesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Gowdy said the length of his work would depend on the administration’s level of cooperation.
“It would be shame on us if we intentionally dragged this out for political expediency,” said Gowdy, the special committee's chairman. “On the other hand, if an administration is slow-walking document production, I can’t end a trial simply because the defense won’t cooperate.”
Clinton is a core figure in the Benghazi story, since she was the secretary of State when terrorists attacked the U.S. diplomatic annex in Benghazi, Libya. The attack left four Americans dead, including Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
Some Democrats suspect Republicans want to keep Benghazi in the news to try to hurt Clinton if she runs for the White House in 2016, as expected.
Gowdy said a memo that came to light last week, in which deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes set out “goals” for the administration’s response, but which was not turned over by the administration earlier, was evidence of a cover-up.
Demand concrete evidence of cover-up from the Obama administration, and when it magically fails to appear because there's no cover-up, state that the lack of evidence is in fact proof the cover-up exists and demand concrete evidence of the cover-up. Repeat infinitely! Sell tickets.
This is the GOP plan for the next 30 months, so get used to it. Don't want to get used to it? Vote the assholes out. Real simple.
Oh, and this is the cover-up Congress should be investigating: Okahoma GOP Gov. Mary Fallin's role in last week's botched, bungled, cruel, unusual, immoral and unconstitutional execution of Clayton Lockett.
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Funny that you should mention the gradual de-escalation in the Ukraine.
Justthis morning some friends and I were discussing how President Obama
tends to do his thing, beavering away at the issues until they get
resolved - and generally without resorting to flashy measures that
attract a lot of attention. This may be just such a case.
Which I find amusing because we have these gangs of people on the internetz who
at one and the same time condemn the president as bloodthirsty
warmonger while simultaneously demanding immediate action to mollify
their every concern. You can't have it both ways, people, no matter how
badly you want it nor how vigorously you squeal over the outrage of it all.
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