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Her Sister

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Tue Jun 28, 2016, 11:47 AM Jun 2016

Play By Play: The Spectacular Implosion of the Benghazi Committee (HRC GP)


In our years as professional political consultants, it's hard to recall an instance of a political party self-destructing so dramatically in the midst of an attack on an opponent.

Democrats and the media have always known that the House Select Committee on Benghazi was a partisan exercise aimed at barring Hillary Clinton from the White House. What no one anticipated is that in the weeks leading up to Hillary's appearance before the committee, the GOP would spontaneously torpedo their own efforts, revealing the sham investigation in all its craven cynicism.

We've chronicled the process in recent weeks and have compiled the details below.

SEPTEMBER 29: As seen in this Clinton campaign ad, Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy – at the time the leading candidate to succeed John Boehner as House speaker – opens the floodgates by admitting the truth: the Benghazi Committee is essentially playing politics with dead Americans:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=TX8AAUOGKSg

Long chronology: http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/benghazi-bust-play-by-play
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Play By Play: The Spectacular Implosion of the Benghazi Committee (HRC GP) (Original Post) Her Sister Jun 2016 OP
...you have to begin with the assumption that info from Benghazi committee Republicans is false. Her Sister Jun 2016 #1
 

Her Sister

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1. ...you have to begin with the assumption that info from Benghazi committee Republicans is false.
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 11:49 AM
Jun 2016
Brian Beutler ✔ @brianbeutler
Gowdy fabricated redactions on to Clinton's email to make it look like she'd outed a spy. http://democrats.benghazi.house.gov/news/press-releases/cia-debunks-gowdy-s-allegation-that-clinton-email-contained-classified-cia … pic.twitter.com/QV6AAHhb26
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That's just flagrant misconduct. At this point you have to begin with the assumption that info from Benghazi committee Republicans is false.
12:46 PM - 18 Oct 2015


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