Posted on 05/05/2014 12:01:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
White House may not cooperate with Benghazi select panel
By Justin Sink - 05/05/14 02:40 PM EDT
The White House suggested Monday it may not cooperate with a new House select committee investigating the terror attack in Benghazi.
Press secretary Jay Carney said that the White House has "always cooperated with legitimate oversight," but called the new probe a “highly partisan effort to politicize” the deadly attack.
"If you look at even what some Republicans have said, it certainly casts doubt on the legitimacy of an effort that is so partisan in nature," Carney said.
"I don't think there are many people, including some Republicans… who believe that this is necessary after seven congressional committees and multiple investigations," he added.
Carney refused to answer questions directly about whether the White House would cooperate, but he noted that there had been 13 congressional hearings, 50 member-and staff briefings, and over 25,000 pages of documents produced over the September 11, 2012 terror attack, in which four Americans were killed.
"One thing this Congress is not short on is investigations into what happened before, during, and after Benghazi," he said.
"And all of these investigations… have found that the facts as we describe them, in terms of how we approach this, remain exactly as we described them then, the facts of yesterday or the facts today," Carney continued. "And they will be the facts no matter how often or for how long Republicans engage in highly partisan efforts to politicize what was a tragedy."
Earlier Monday, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) will head the new select committee.
Boehner decided to call for the committee last week, after the revelation of an email from White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, who recommended then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice should “underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
The White House has maintained that Rhodes was merely prepping Rice to discuss protests across the Middle East, and not the Benghazi incident specifically. Republicans, though, said the document is evidence the White House was pushing the narrative that the violence in Benghazi grew from anger over an anti-Islam YouTube to protect the president's bid for reelection.
“Trey Gowdy is as dogged, focused, and serious-minded as they come,” Boehner said in a statement announcing the appointment on Monday. “His background as a federal prosecutor and his zeal for the truth make him the ideal person to lead this panel.
“I know he shares my commitment to get to the bottom of this tragedy and will not tolerate any stonewalling from the Obama administration,” Boehner continued.
But Carney repeatedly dismissed the effort as conspiratorial and politically motivated.
"At some point you just have to assume Republicans will continue this because it feeds a political objective of some point," Carney said.
"The facts begin not to matter to those who fervently want to believe something else," he added.
Carney also chided Republicans for not focusing on issues "Americans really care about," like the economy.
"The effort to politicize this has continued unabated," Carney said.
House Democrats have not yet said whether they would participate in the select committee. Carney said the White House would leave it up to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on whether to participate.
OK, kid, let's talk about the economy. Oh, really? Thought not. BTT
That pic just doesn’t do it. :-)
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"No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo
it's the character of America.
Nope. Somebody’s going to talk. I don’t think they’d be taking this step without a whistleblower or two lined up.
I have no doubt the dirt bags in the White Hut will not cooperate. What happens then? Nothing?
White House may not cooperate with Benghazi select panel
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How fast can you say “presidential impeachment” 7 times.
Obama committed treason. Everyone knows it now. And now Obama wants to rope a dope it out until November of 2016?
No problem if the WH does not co-operate. The evidence to impeach Obama can still be discovered and used.All the GOP needs to do is to allow the TP to capture the Senate for them.
If the White House stonewalls, that is assumptive proof that Obama is a traitor to the USA, and that his conduct on Benghazi will prove it.Obama left over 40 people to die in Benghazi, and if the 3 heros had not refused to stand down, then there woud have been a lot more that 4 dead.Obama and Hillery did not foresee that he would have 3 good men save the entire US staff. Now there are living witnesses to Obamas treasonous activity of trading arms to Ansar Al Sharia, and asking them to kill everyone so as to leave no evidentiary trace of his treason behind.
Do you think Trey Gowdy cares whether the White Hut cooperates or not? He has the left and Obama right where he wants them, and they are already squirming before the Committee is even convened. Scared or what?
Send them to prison for contempt of congress.....
I hope this is a forward thinking committee. Before their first meeting they need to have staff prepare court documents for every possible circumstance. Obama will pull out all the stops to keep the committee from doing its job. There will be Executive Orders, destruction of documents, orders to key people to take the fifth, etc. - it going to be one obstruction after another. Be ready with each one. File court papers within 24 hours of each case. Hit them fast and hard - take no prisoners!!!
The Character of the Real America...as opposed to the “America” portrayed on most tv programming,..most movies...and most other media!!
Im really shocked that weve kept trying to deal with this “peacefully” quite frankly.
It not, send all to jail.
This would be a mistake even larger than the original one to cover up the incident.
I think only the AG can appoint a special prosecutor.
The Clinton AG did for whitewater, and has kicked himself in the ass for that ever since.
If the House really meant it, they would have appointed a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR and just gone for it.
I agree about it being Kabuki theater but if CONgress really, really meant it they would send the House Sergeant at Arms to arrest all White House officials involved and hold them INDEFINITELY until they decided to sing.
Good! Drag it out boys, drag it out. There’s a winning strategy.
It’s a dem clusterfark...
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