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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/benghazi-creeps-back-spotlight
Benghazi creeps back into spotlight
09/10/14 10:30 AMUpdated 09/10/14 01:18 PM
By Steve Benen
The deadly attack on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi two years ago has been investigated by seven congressional committees, each of which concluded that the conspiracy theorists are wrong. House Republicans nevertheless concluded that its time for an eighth committee to launch a probe, which its chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), insists wont be the least bit political.
And yet, consider what Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) said over the weekend.
Im not going to stand here and confirm or deny anything, Westmoreland told the crowd. Our job is to figure out the truth.
Westmoreland spent much of his speech criticizing Democrats. I think our enemy stands on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Westmoreland said to loud applause.
Oh good, weve reached the point at which elected lawmakers publicly describe the president of the United States as an enemy.
According to the report in the Marietta Daily Journal, Westmoreland went on to say that its hard for congressional Democrats to be bipartisan.
Said the guy who considers the president his enemy.
Remember, Westmoreland isnt just some random conservative the Georgia Republican was one of only seven House Republicans to be named to the new GOP Benghazi committee. In May, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said Westmoreland has no business joining the select committee, calling it inappropriate for the far-right lawmaker to serve on the panel while also overseeing political strategy for the National Republican Campaign Committee.
With the benefit of hindsight, Lewis concerns appear well grounded.
Igor Bobic added, Admission for the Marietta, Georgia, event was $10. The Cobb County GOP touted the event as a very unusual breakfast where its supporters would receive an update on the Benghazi investigation.
Trey Gowdy recently said he hopes to avoid a media circus with his investigation. If you take the approach Are we doing this to learn more and better ourselves as a people? And be respectful of their sacrifice? then you wont let it become a circus, he said.
And yet, heres a handpicked member of Gowdys panel, using the Benghazi investigation to help a local Republican Party, at an event in which that member referred to the president as an enemy.
As for the larger context, with Gowdys committee poised to hold its first hearing next week, msnbcs Alex Seitz-Wald noted last week, After several mercifully Benghazi-free months, the 2012 attack on the diplomatic compound in Libya is about to be thrust back into the spotlight around its September 11 anniversary.
Fox News, naturally, is getting increasingly invested, repackaging old news as new fodder, while again pushing discredited theories.
The Magistrate
(95,256 posts)People who talk that kind of smack most places get rounded up and have nice, long vacations at public expense....
still_one
(92,433 posts)media that helped perpetuate the WMDs in Iraq lie
The Magistrate
(95,256 posts)And I am not really suggesting he be spirited off to a cellar somewhere and beaten repeatedly....
enough
(13,262 posts)live in that world. A world where speaking like that of the President in time of war would have been seen as treason. Those old rules no longer hold.
babylonsister
(171,099 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,273 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)As usual.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Initech
(100,107 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)Should be arrested.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)I mean, really. If you use this sort of rhetoric, are you trying to incite lunatics to violence? Are you planning to stage a military coup? Someone should ask him.
babylonsister
(171,099 posts)Initech
(100,107 posts)It's not Obama - these are the real people destroying your freedom.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)surname. The other Westmoreland who was a liar and should have lost his pension to put it nicely.