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BOEHNER FINALLY CAVES, WILL APPOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEE
Breitbart ^ | May 2, 2014 | by MATTHEW BOYLE

Posted on 05/02/2014 10:24:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

After more than a year of resisting the calls of a vast majority of his conference, Speaker John Boehner is relenting and forming a special committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya and resulting scandal.

“The administration's withholding of documents – emails showing greater White House involvement in misleading the American people – is a flagrant violation of trust and undermines the basic principles of oversight upon which our system of government is built. And it forces us to ask the question, what else about Benghazi is the Obama administration still hiding from the American people?” Boehner said in a statement announcing the decision.

“The new emails released this week were the straw that broke the camel’s back,” a senior GOP leadership aide said. “The Speaker was furious to learn that the administration withheld relevant documents from a congressional subpoena. He’s sick and tired of this evasion and obstruction from the administration, and wants a solution to finally force accountability, get the truth, and provide justice.”

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon had also waged a high-profile battle against an oversight committee hearing yesterday, undermining the notion that the five committees investigating the issue were working together, Republicans close to the matter said.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is under consideration to chair the special panel...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazicoverup; emails; gowdy; lies; obama; selectcommittee
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To: fungoking

Yeah, more like, “Say hello to your new little friend, Andrew Breitbart”


21 posted on 05/02/2014 10:43:33 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Jim Robinson
“The Speaker was furious to learn that the administration withheld relevant documents from a congressional subpoena. He’s sick and tired of this evasion and obstruction from the administration, and wants a solution to finally force accountability, get the truth, and provide justice.”

Please.

The only reason Boner capitulated was due to a political calculation that the Titanic was sinking more quickly than he had previously anticipated. There were mountains of evidence prior to the emails, that have existed for the last two years without a single iota of Mr. Boner's newfound furious scrutiny.
22 posted on 05/02/2014 10:43:59 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Gowdy may not be the prince many think he is……just a warning….


23 posted on 05/02/2014 10:47:48 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Jim Robinson

Immediately afterward Boner called Obama and said “Waaaa! I can’t stop them. It’s soooooooo hard.”


24 posted on 05/02/2014 10:48:21 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: Jim Robinson

What I find absurd is Boehner’s reason for waiting this long. He was looking for concrete evidence that tied the WH to the video talking point.

Isn’t that the whole purpose of the committee - to figure out what happened?


25 posted on 05/02/2014 10:49:58 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Jim Robinson; All

Trey Gowdy Demands Answers On Benghazi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1jeJmeeMjs

I missed this video last October and highly recommend watching now to ALL FReepers who have not seen this!

Please watch, if you haven’t yet. Thank you.


26 posted on 05/02/2014 10:51:11 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Dqban22

He had a fundraiser to get to in Las Vegas. What more do you people want from the man?!


27 posted on 05/02/2014 10:54:29 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Jim Robinson

Caves....BS....They found the “indisputable” smoking gun. Hope it’s enough to impeach Obama.


28 posted on 05/02/2014 10:56:48 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Dqban22
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.”

Holy cow.

Quote of the year.

29 posted on 05/02/2014 10:56:56 AM PDT by kidd
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To: tennmountainman; Jim Robinson

Allahpundit may well have it right.

Seems Boehner’s epic resistance to ever establishing a Select Committee, even immediately after the Big Lie of Benghazi was overwhelmed by the facts and witnesses on the ground, drew ire from Republicans at home and in the House.

Boehner then hawks immigration “reform” and further enrages the base of his party.

Now comes the chess. Boehner trades out one of two main issues aligned against him (probably to save his Speakership) to get the other. He gives us a Select Committee.

The return he expects may be more about increased cooperation on amnesty, from recalcitrant House members.

You are correct on Boehner’s seriousness. It’s Gowdy, or this SC is a spin machine arranged to go nowhere.


30 posted on 05/02/2014 10:58:03 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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Who makes the selection of members of a Special Committee? Do they have to be voted on by the whole house after being selected? Is the Chairman of the committee appointed or do the Committee members select the Chairman?


31 posted on 05/02/2014 10:58:44 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: lexington minuteman 1775; All

Let us remember that the current scandal about the cover-up, is still not the bottom of the event. The second question is what in the heck were they up to in Libya anyway? Were they running guns to Al Qaeda affiliated groups to use to overthrow Egypt and/or Syria?

What exactly is our foreign policy except to express a hatred of Israel, and to pummel Putin’s chest with sissy fists, yelling, “You Brute! You Brute!”


32 posted on 05/02/2014 10:59:14 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Resettozero
Great link, thanks.

The title is a bit inaccurate. Trey Gowdy RIPS the media, to their faces (!) for buying the Bamster’s lies.

33 posted on 05/02/2014 11:00:18 AM PDT by Jacquerie (By their oaths, it is the duty of state legislators to invoke Article V.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Trey Gowdy will surely create some major league fireworks. That would certainly be a bold move if Boehner appoints him.


34 posted on 05/02/2014 11:00:29 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Jim Robinson

It appears that the timing of the creation of this committee will insure that no conclusion is reached before the election.

The thing that is good, but too late, is of no use.


35 posted on 05/02/2014 11:00:32 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: Jim Robinson

There is so much scandal with Obama we nee a scoreboard.


36 posted on 05/02/2014 11:02:07 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Jim Robinson
May I suggest to Mr. Boehner he begin select committees for the IRS cover up and Fast & Furious...for starters.

5.56mm

37 posted on 05/02/2014 11:02:13 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: C. Edmund Wright

“Gowdy may not be the prince many think he is……just a warning….”

And outside of sheer defeatism, what evidence do you have to show that Trey Gowdy is not genuine?


38 posted on 05/02/2014 11:02:36 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("There's always free cheese in a mousetrap." - Marine Col. Peter Martino)
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To: LachlanMinnesota
It appears that the timing of the creation of this committee will insure that no conclusion is reached before the election. The thing that is good, but too late, is of no use.

That's not what my wife says...
39 posted on 05/02/2014 11:05:46 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Jim Robinson

*yawn

Show me the goods....


40 posted on 05/02/2014 11:10:05 AM PDT by Noamie
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