Posted on 05/02/2014 4:44:48 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Friday he would appoint a select House committee to expand the Republican investigation into the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.
Boehner had resisted a push by conservatives to name a special panel to investigate the terrorist attack, but a senior leadership aide said that new emails released by the Obama administration this week were “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
“Americans learned this week that the Obama Administration is so intent on obstructing the truth about Benghazi that it is even willing to defy subpoenas issued by the standing committees of the People's House,” Boehner said in a statement.
“These revelations compel the House to take every possible action to ensure the American people have the truth about the terrorist attack on our consulate that killed four of our countrymen,” he added.
“In light of these new developments, the House will vote to establish a new select committee to investigate the attack, provide the necessary accountability, and ensure justice is finally served,” Boehner said.
The Speaker called the White House's withholding of emails “misleading” to the public and a “flagrant violation of trust [that] undermines the basic principles of oversight upon which our system of government is built.”
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), a member of the Judiciary and Oversight committees, is under consideration to lead the select committee and is said to be the preferred choice of Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), officials said.
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Yes, you are right that the left will target the enemy. Boehner knows this. He’s not taking the lead. He knows that Gowdy will be taking a lot of heat. Gowdy will suffer with the help of the media’s relentless attacks. Then after all of the theater, when Gowdy’s currency is down, Boehner will sit back and do nothing in the end. For now, Boehner looks like he’s being tough to appease the conservatives. Gowdy is very good. Maybe he will bring Boehner down along with Obama and Hillary. But understand that Boehner isn’t in this to bring the libs down.
Exactly.
Tell me, who will the spineless select be?
Someone on FR posted within the last 6 months that 1 of Boehner's grandparents was black. That was the only reference I have read about that matter.
Nearly 1 year ago (5/13/2013), his 35 y-o daughter, Lindsay, married a black Jamaican construction worker in FL - 37 y-o Dominic Lakhan. It was discussed here on FR back then.
I admit I was wrong, I though Boehner was going to do his usual shtick, which is nothing. Only over a year late, but better late than never.
I smell the whiff of impeachment in the air.
Please, God; let it be Gowdy. Please!
. . . and voters who knew that voted for his re-election anyway. Which raises serious doubts about the whole theory of democracy . . .
‘Yes, keep smiling - don’t stop - as I place these shamrocks in your pocket.
I stole them just for you. Have Me-Shell put them in your salad.
And for Pete’s sake, pay no attention to the hand doing ‘Hand Farts!’
I know it’s amusing, but reeeaally - - -
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