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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:01 PM Mar 2014

Issa Tries To Dispute Fact Checker Pinocchio's, Gets Even More Pinocchio's

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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Issa Tries To Dispute Fact Checker Pinocchio's, Gets Even More Pinocchio's (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2014 OP
Darrel Issa does not mind the lies, except for the fact this was the Chris Wallace show on FOX there Thinkingabout Mar 2014 #1
Badge of Honor lobodons Mar 2014 #2
Perhaps Issa has the Secretary of State confused with the Commander in Chief? rocktivity Mar 2014 #3
Issa is looking for the smoking gun that Hillary and Ambassador Stevens were having an affair.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2014 #4
Oh what a tangled web we weave................nt okaawhatever Mar 2014 #5
Kick! Cha Mar 2014 #6

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. Darrel Issa does not mind the lies, except for the fact this was the Chris Wallace show on FOX there
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:23 PM
Mar 2014

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)
2. Badge of Honor
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 04:56 PM
Mar 2014

Its almost like RWNJ's take Pinocchio's from the "Lame Stream" media as Badge's of Honor.

rocktivity

(44,555 posts)
3. Perhaps Issa has the Secretary of State confused with the Commander in Chief?
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 05:07 PM
Mar 2014

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)
4. Issa is looking for the smoking gun that Hillary and Ambassador Stevens were having an affair....
Mon Mar 3, 2014, 06:12 PM
Mar 2014

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....

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