Posted on 10/22/2015 11:14:02 AM PDT by lbryce
Chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi Trey Gowdy wasted no words while explaining clearly and convincingly the purpose of the committee’s investigation and the reason former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was called to testify on Thursday.
“Madame Secretary, I understand some people — frankly in both parties — have suggested this investigation is about you,” Gowdy said in his opening statement. “Let me assure you it is not. And let me assure you why it is not. This work is about something much more important than any single person. It is about four U.S. government workers, including our Ambassador, murdered by terrorists on foreign soil. It is about what happened before, during, and after the attacks that killed these four men.”
The chairman was clearly seeking to refocus the public’s attention on why the committee was established following Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s gaffe late last month, which Hillary Clinton and supporters used to argue the Republicans are mainly seeking to hurt her presidential bid through the investigation.
“Not a single member of this Committee signed up for an investigation into you or your email system. We signed up because we wanted to honor the service and sacrifice of four people sent to a foreign land to represent us – who were killed – and do everything we can to prevent it from happening to others,” he said.
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sour grapes kill
It’s not sour grapes when your OWN side ditches the fight EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Why do YOU think the pubbies run from confrontation with the dims?
(psst, it’s because they’re really on the same side...NOT ours...)
I’ll wait for an example of pubbies actually really truly fighting Clinton Corruption in a meaningful way.
As Rush said nothing will come of this considering the low information voter base.
Yup. My 29 year old (lefty) daughter angrily texted me "why are they harassing her?"
Just inform her that this committee is attempting to break down the 3 years of stonewalls, obstructions, delaying tactics, obfuscation, misdirections and even (shoulder you be bold to tell your daughter) lies that Hillary, the State Dept, DOD, this Administration, the MSM have set forth.
shoulder=shoud
what you claim hasn’t happened
The House has repeatedly passed bills conservatives desired
you confuse what you want with the raw political power required to achieve what you want
I would expect CRIMNAL charges for CRIMINAL actions.
So far, nothing.
If you’re silly enough to think the RNC and most of elected members of congress in the Republican caucus are on ‘your side’ you need to check your meds.
I usually go with ******.
Save your incipent bullshit for some liberal. You get your rocks off being a boo-bird.
Wasts of time like you are a dime a dozen, here on FR.
Watching her today, I see a genuinely evil sociopath.
Right.
I presume you’re a Jeb supporter then?
“Watching her today, I see a genuinely evil sociopath.”
And a congress full of people who will do nothing to stop her.
Were you watching the Democratic Underground channel?
What matters is the FBI was watching...
I just got a big chuckle out of that phrase. It carries a lot of subtext!
You’ve given me a lot to chew on in your post, on the LBJ factoid alone...
I always thought hillary and obama deliberately let those people get killed because they knew too much.
You are very welcome, good buddy. It’s true that retired General John “Pete” Piotrowski relayed this accusation in his book, “Basic Airman to General: The Secret War & Other Conflicts: Lessons in Life and Leadership.” The claim that the U.S. notified the North Vietnamese government of airstrikes ahead of time went viral in early 2015 when an excerpt from General Piotrowski’s book appeared in chain emails:
“Nearly twenty years later, I saw former Secretary of State Dean Rusk being interviewed by Peter Arnett on a CBS documentary called ‘The Ten Thousand Day War.’ Mr Arnett asked, ‘It has been rumored that the United States provided the North Vietnamese government the names of the targets that would be bombed the following day. Is there any truth to that allegation?’
“To my astonishment and absolute disgust, the former Secretary responded, ‘Yes. We didn’t want to harm the North Vietnamese people, so we passed the targets to the Swiss embassy in Washington with instructions to pass them to the NVN government through their embassy in Hanoi.”
It should be noted for accuracy that that documentary “The Ten Thousand Day War” was made by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), not CBS, as the email miss-states.
Only half?
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