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Benghazi hearing turns ugly: Republicans accuse Obama of lying, Dems fire back
NBC News ^ | 11/15/12 | CarrollAnn Mears

Posted on 11/16/2012 2:23:54 AM PST by Libloather

Benghazi hearing turns ugly: Republicans accuse Obama of lying, Dems fire back
By NBC's CarrollAnn Mears

A House Foreign Affairs hearing on "Benghazi and Beyond" quickly turned into a shouting and accusations forum.

**SNIP**

Naturally, Democrats responded. It began rather timidly and escalated.

"Barack Obama was no more responsible for what happened in Benghazi than George Bush was for Sept. 11th or Ronald Reagan was for the blowing up of U.S. Marines in Beirut," Rep. Eliot Engle (D-NY) said.

Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) unloaded, first sarcastically: "Let's just hang the guilty parties."

"The stench of hypocrisy that hangs over this city today emanates from this room," Ackerman said. "I've listened to my colleagues talk about the President of the United States and others in the administration using [the] terms 'deliberate', 'lies', 'unmitigated gall', 'malfeasance,' which is malicious and knowing evil-doing, 'disgust', 'coverups'."

(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; hearing; lying; republicans
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Notice how the Dems shifted the blame and said if you would have just given us more money we could have fixed the problem. They think more money is the solution to every problem. No wonder we’re in the current shape we’re in...


21 posted on 11/16/2012 3:24:15 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Fresh Wind

“Barack Obama was no more responsible for what happened in Benghazi than George Bush was for Sept. 11th...”

No. bill clinton was.


22 posted on 11/16/2012 3:24:23 AM PST by MestaMachine (TREASON!!!!)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

I literally choked on my coffee this morning after reading this..

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/15/president-obama-silly-sexist-defense-susan-rice/

Please notice who the author is...I’m in love...


23 posted on 11/16/2012 3:26:34 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: ballplayer

“They were running Guns to the Syrian rebels,Alqueda Jihadists.”

They were also running guns to hamas in gaza via Turkey through Egypt.


24 posted on 11/16/2012 3:27:33 AM PST by MestaMachine (TREASON!!!!)
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To: Libloather
"Let's just hang the guilty parties."

Works for me!

Let me know if you need someone to pull the lever.

25 posted on 11/16/2012 3:29:54 AM PST by grobdriver
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To: Libloather

I don’t see the GOP looking below the surface to Al-Qaeda-linked gun running at all.

Is there nobody in the Republican party willing to point out Obama’s part in putting militant Islamists in charge of multiple, previously neutralized countries in the region?

I would think the emboldenment of Hamas, now directly attacking Israel and so closely after Obama’s reelection, would bring an urgency to such a line of inquiry.


26 posted on 11/16/2012 3:33:48 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: nikos1121

Wonder if Kirsten has seen the light.


27 posted on 11/16/2012 3:35:11 AM PST by MestaMachine (TREASON!!!!)
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To: Libloather; All

Once again the Dems bait the hook and the Repubs bite. The actual attack is only part of the issue. The bigger issue is the coverup and the purpose behind it. I am tired the Republicans being unprepared to deal with the Democrats games.


28 posted on 11/16/2012 3:39:04 AM PST by bbernard
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To: ballplayer

Yep, and the whole thing went south on them, arms went EVERYWHERE including Mali.

So it’s WAKE THE F UP, AMERICA!


29 posted on 11/16/2012 3:39:48 AM PST by gotribe
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mrk


30 posted on 11/16/2012 3:41:26 AM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
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To: Libloather

why read anything with the NBC name attached???


31 posted on 11/16/2012 3:48:18 AM PST by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: ballplayer

Greta was good last night. Being an attorney, her questions are pithy.

What grabbed me was when she said something like, “Basically, this is a murder investigation.” It is, and even though the murder of four Americans is the top issue (to everyone but democrats), putting it in those words is stunning.

It’s being treated like a political issue, with Congressional hearings, dem talking points, etc. But it is, simply, a murder investigation. Why did the president watch four people be murdered, and why didn’t he have them saved when they begged to be saved?


32 posted on 11/16/2012 3:56:12 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: grobdriver
Let me know if you need someone to pull the lever.

You like waiting in long lines? :-)

33 posted on 11/16/2012 4:00:16 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Libloather

Never did like watching or listening to nbc. Too much bias in their reporting. First read ... a prayer you are correct, am reading. Back and Read. Picked up at Hearing yesterday a few minutes before Connolly. A prayer for open, completely open Hearings on both sides of Congress. Today is a milestone or a millstone, maybe, and each day (with that word zer0 used) is a millstone is possible. May the milestone come and the course be the true course God and Generals desire for our Nation. If the course, be not true, will never arrive at the truth.


34 posted on 11/16/2012 4:01:12 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Ummm, we really do believe dems are a pack of liars... and that sitting around for almost 7 hours while people are calling for help is stuff monsters do... So not only are they liars and monsters, they also cheated the vote.

We need to stand back and not help the little sh*ts...


35 posted on 11/16/2012 4:02:08 AM PST by GOPJ (Petraeus confession: like something from a 'Soviet purge trial'....)
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To: Adder

There should be a massive mail of pieces of rope to his office...


36 posted on 11/16/2012 4:03:47 AM PST by Engedi
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To: nikos1121

Link gave ‘puter a fit ... LOL


37 posted on 11/16/2012 4:05:36 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Libloather

If the shoe fits, kick ‘em in the ass.


38 posted on 11/16/2012 4:07:32 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: ballplayer

They’d love to divert us to the sex scandal. I find it amusing that they don’t have this weapon due to their successful campaign during Clinton/Lewinsky to convince us that these are private matters between adults, just sex.


39 posted on 11/16/2012 4:07:32 AM PST by Anima Mundi (Envy is just passive, lazy greed.)
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To: Libloather
Preen and squawk cretins... republicans said the same things about nixon... but drip drip drip... the truth leaks out. Too many PEOPLE know the truth and they are talking and obama cannot run away from responsibility when the president is guilty... and he and his ilk are very guilty and they will lose this one... long and hard battle ahead but the end is pre ordained. Ask dick nixon.

LLS

40 posted on 11/16/2012 4:12:19 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (I AM JOHN GALT)
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