GOP Aides Mock House Republicans’ ‘Crazy’ Benghazi Witch-Hunt
GOP Aides Mock House Republicans’ ‘Crazy’ Benghazi Witch-Hunt
By Ben Armbruster on May 21, 2013 at 10:11 am
GOP aides are criticizing the House Republicans’ partisan witch-hunt over the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya last year, arguing that the Party should focus more on substantive issues, such as lessons learned and how to recalibrate diplomatic security.
Roll Call reports that Republican aides are saying staffers are getting bogged down chasing bogus accusations.
“We have got to get past that and figure out what are we going to do going forward,” a GOP aide told Roll Call. “Some of the accusations, I mean you wouldn’t believe some of this stuff. It’s just — I mean, you’ve got to be on Mars to come up with some of this stuff.” Another aide expressed frustration at accusations that military assets weren’t properly deployed during the night of the attacks and that a team from Tripoli could have been flown in to fight off the attackers:
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/05/21/2040941/gop-aides-crazy-benghazi/
