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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri May 17, 2013, 01:27 PM May 2013

Will a GOP aide be fired over Benghazi email changes?

In 1998, a top aide resigned after a similar flap. And there were even calls for the Congressman to resign

BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD


Now that we know a GOP congressional aide misleadingly edited — intentionally or not — Obama administration emails on the Benghazi attack, one wonders if he or she will face repercussions. There’s some precedent here. Former GOP Rep. Dan Burton used to hold Darrell Issa’s job as Chairman of the House Oversight Committee and used it to aggressively go after Bill Clinton on a host of controversies of various degrees of merit, much as Issa is doing now.

In 1998, as Burton was investigating alleged campaign finance violations from Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign, his office released a doctored transcript of an audiotape of a former Clinton aide. Burton’s top aide took the blame for the deception and resigned, as the New York Times reported on May 7, 1998:

The top investigator for the House inquiry into President Clinton’s 1996 campaign finance practices resigned under pressure today, amid growing bipartisan criticism of his role in releasing edited tapes of Webster L. Hubbell’s jailhouse conversations. The aide, David N. Bossie, has been for 18 months the point man and alter ego of the inquiry’s chairman, Representative Dan Burton, the Indiana Republican who heads the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. But since Mr. Burton released transcripts of some of Mr. Hubbell’s prison conversations late last week, the lawmaker has weathered intense attacks by Democrats maintaining that exculpatory information was edited out of the transcripts.


The situation is a good analog for the Benghazi emails in that Republicans made some small alterations to otherwise accurate raw information which fundamentally changed the meaning to advance their political agenda.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/05/17/will_a_gop_aide_be_fired_over_benghazi_email_changes/
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Will a GOP aide be fired over Benghazi email changes? (Original Post) DonViejo May 2013 OP
You Know If The Shoe Were On The Other Foot The Repugs Would Make This Into Another Scandal..... global1 May 2013 #1
Let's ask Boehner, "Who's going to jail?" sinkingfeeling May 2013 #2
+1! Proud Liberal Dem May 2013 #3
IF they had gotten away with it yellerpup May 2013 #4
There is a rather blatant double-standard in place here DFW May 2013 #5

global1

(25,168 posts)
1. You Know If The Shoe Were On The Other Foot The Repugs Would Make This Into Another Scandal.....
Fri May 17, 2013, 01:37 PM
May 2013

why aren't we hearing from the Dems on this? Why aren't they making an issue of this? Why aren't they calling - at least - for an apology?

yellerpup

(12,249 posts)
4. IF they had gotten away with it
Fri May 17, 2013, 03:19 PM
May 2013

It would have been an impeachable offense for Obama. I don't expect this gop aide to lose his job since it's more than excusable when it is against Obama.

DFW

(54,055 posts)
5. There is a rather blatant double-standard in place here
Fri May 17, 2013, 04:00 PM
May 2013

Darryl Issa could decapitate his mother on live TV, and it would be a "youthful indiscretion."

Barack Obama could forget the period after the "H" when signing his name and it would be an impeachable offense.

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