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IGOR BOBIC MARCH 3, 2014, 12:52 PM EST
Confronted by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace this weekend about a number of misleading statements on Hillary Clinton and the 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) offered a flimsy defense that gained even more "Pinocchio's" from Washington Post Fact Checker Glen Kessler.
As chair of the House Oversight Committee, Issa has been spearheading an expensive, nine-month investigation into what many Republicans believe is an administration "cover-up" of the attack that led to the death of U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Wallace played a clip of a speech Issa delivered in February again touting his "suspicions" that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Defense Department to "stand down" with support aircraft on the night of the attack.
"But the Washington Post Fact Checker cited that bipartisan report you mentioned, the Senate Intelligence Committee, that there were no stand-down orders, and there is also no evidence that Clinton ever spoke to Leon Panetta, then defense secretary, that night," Wallace said. "And for the second time, they gave you four Pinocchios, which is their highest level of falsehood. How do you respond to that, sir?"
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)is a slim fact he will not be proven a liar in the RW world, but do not fear, I am making sure some of the RW bunch gets the link. Thanks.
lobodons
(1,290 posts)Its almost like RWNJ's take Pinocchio's from the "Lame Stream" media as Badge's of Honor.
rocktivity
(44,555 posts)Or Benghazi with Tuzla?
As secretary of state, would Hillary have had the authority to tell the DoD to stand down? Even if she did, wouldn't she have to clear with the CoC first anyway?
rocktivity
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It was going to come out so Hill called Obama to have him knocked off so Obama ordered his allies in al-Qaeda to attack the embassy.
Or something like that....