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John Boehner's Email Benghazi Smoking Gun Backfires and Blows Up In His Face
It turns out John Boehners smoking gun Benghazi email was more like a firecracker that has blown up in the Speakers face.
At his press conference yesterday, Speaker Boehner demanded that the the White House turn over a Benghazi related email,
I hope you all tuned in to yesterdays hearing on the tragedy in Benghazi. We learned that on September 12 the day after the attacks and four days before Susan Rices TV appearances a senior State Department official emailed her superiors to relay that the Libyan ambassador she had told the Libyan Ambassador that the attack was conducted by Islamic terrorists.
The State Department would not allow our committees to keep copies of this email when it was reviewed. And I would call on the president to order the State Department to release this email so that the American people can see it.
According to Boehner this was the Benghazi smoking gun, only it wasnt.
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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/john-boehners-email-benghazi-smoking-gun-backfires-blows-face.html
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(812 posts)actually they had to use the basement since congress would not allow them the use of an official room,here is the text from Wiki:
On 16 June 2005, Conyers presided over a hearing or forum on the Downing Street memo in a basement room in the Capitol where Joseph C. Wilson, Ray McGovern and Cindy Sheehan among others testified.[9][10][11] The House Republican leadership did not allow Conyers to use an official hearing room and compelled him to hold the hearing in the basement because the hearing was unofficial.
The same House Republican (so-called)Leadership that would like to impeach President Obama for not heeding warnings about demonstrators unlike the clearly titled reports from serious intel titled something vague like:Middle east terrorists are planning to fly commercial jets into targets inside the continental US.
Naturally this raised no alarms in the Bush administration,as i hear it,Bush had acquired a new Nintendo GameBoy and was too distracted by The Legend of Zelda to listen to the briefs.
You would like to think that this would suggest reckless disregard but with the Democrats looking to the future and reaching across the aisle then you would be wrong.
Oh the hypocrisy,how it burns!
here is the full wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo