Resoundingly missing from the cover of the Interim Progress Report on the Benghazi, Libya consulate attack published yesterday by the House Republican Conference is the name Harold Rogers (R-KY), chairman of the House Appropriations committee that twice slashed the State Department’s diplomatic security budget. That committee was apparently excused from reporting to the conference in the zealous crusade being waged by Tea Party Republicans, led by Darryl Issa and Jason Chaffetz, to pin blame on then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Issa’s name is listed as a co-author of the report while Media Matters reports that Chaffetz appeared with Megyn Kelly to discuss the report released to great hullabaloo in right-wing circles.
Fox’s Kelly Interviews Rep. Chaffetz And Ignores His Hypocrisy Over Embassy Security
ANDREW LAWRENCE
During the interview there was no mention of Rep. Chaffetz’s own vote to cut funding to embassy security or reports that have undermined right-wing attacks on Clinton.
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Kelly provided Chaffetz with numerous opportunities to bash Clinton – asking if Clinton “blatantly lied” over requests being made for more security at the embassy, allowing Chaffetz to make claims that Clinton personally denied more security for the embassy, and speculating that there are documents being hidden from lawmakers that prove Clinton had direct knowledge regarding the lack of security at the embassy.
Oh! So he is speculating! Never mind that she accepted full responsibility for failures, provided State Department personnel to testify and documents for examination as requested, submitted the Accountability Review Board report in a timely fashion from home while recovering from a concussion and blood clot, and went on to testify in person before committees in both the Senate and the House as requested before she had fully recovered from her serious (and scary) health issues – never mind all of that. Chaffetz and his Tea Partiers think documents are being hidden. According to an article yesterday inThe Hill, the former secretary was not interviewed by the audit committee.
I am beyond disgusted at these morons. Like Issa has an iota of credibility!
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Interesting that we don’t hear a peep out of them about yesterday’s attack on the French Embassy in Tripoli. Shouldn’t they be demanding that the administration give the Pentagon “offensive authority” there? Idiots!
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They are the lowest of the low and people see through them.
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hillary would eat these guys for lunch if she wanted to. if it gets to the point where she feels she needs to respond, she will.
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PYW she has had them for lunch several times. They are loke roaches you spray spray and they still come back.
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I agree. She will nail them if/when she feel she has to.
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With her poll numbers over 60% favorable, I’d say right now she doesn’t have to.
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That’s what’s driving them crazy.
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bingo
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No doubt in my mind the Obama phone lady is going to vote for Hillary, but what difference does it make?
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They just keep making themselves look stupid. Add that to the beginning backlash over the gun vote, and they are just doing all the work for the 2014 downfall…
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Yeah, I read that Kelly Ayotte is hearing it from her constituents in New Hampshire. But I guess the people who actually voted her into the Senate don’t count if she’s aiming for veep in 2016.
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I was just going to mention how her approvals have tanked.
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They can run ,they cant hide, everything they say is on record and when Hillary’s book comes out , watch out. They are just fearful of 2015
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bill clinton just now at the library dedication:
“You beat me to be a grandfather.”
time for chelsea to get on the ball. 🙂
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I was just gonna type something totally in appropriate lol. Yeah no pressure Chelsea/Marc.. Bill grandpa envy.
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i think hillary has grandma envy, too. chelsea said she wants kids, so it’ll happen eventually. just not soon enough for her parents, lol.
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I feel for Chelsea on the mom pressure. It’s never soon enough if you are an adult only child – trust me! My mom hounded me for quite awhile, but then I had 4 kids and that shut her up!
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Wow! I don’t know whether that is overcompensation or a really tough penance! Now that Hillary is relaxing, maybe Chelsea will, too. I know she must have been awfully worried about her mom, and that can take a toll.
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I wanted a girl pretty badly and I had 3 boys first! The only person who wanted a girl worse than I did – my mom…but we love those boys to death, too.
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🙂 And you also got your girl. She’s lucky to have 3 big brothers!
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Looky here:
Elijah Cummings Calls On Boehner To Retract GOP Report Blaming Libya Attack On Hillary Clinton: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/libya-report-elijah-cummings_n_3156900.html
Cummings even wants Boehner to apologize to Hillary!
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I love Elijah Cummings, and he is right. Boehner should apologize to Hillary – publicly.
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Absolutely! Boehner might do it if the Dems turn up the heat.
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It can’t make you a very popular person to be attacking THE most popular person.
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I found this one, too. I was confused about why the GOP report was talking about a “signature” on a cable. I am never surprised by how old DOS technology is (as in – they are still using cables) but that technology doesn’t get a signature – not even an electronic one. The word signature is a euphemism. These Republicans are so lame. Of course they all have staff sending newsletters and emails out “signed” by them
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/elijah-cummings-hillary-clinton-benghazi-90669.html?hp=l6
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WaPo covered it, too. They gave Issa four Pinocchios: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/issas-absurd-claim-that-clintons-signature-means-she-personally-approved-it/2013/04/25/58c2f5b4-adf8-11e2-a986-eec837b1888b_blog.html
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I wonder how many communications leave his office with his “signature” that he has never seen. The nerve of them to call her a liar!
“When people attack you, you always have to remember that a lot of what others say about you has a lot more to do about them than you.” – Hillary Rodham Clinton
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For another way to to look at this google Jay Carney. Right now Honey Boo Boo’s mother has more respect with the White House Press Corps than he does. Conspiracies are extremely difficult to prove but the congressional hearings have already exposed how the American people have been lied to. Greg Hicks even voted for Obama twice. Having said that, I am sick and tired of tea bagging idiots wasting taxpayer money by going after the most admired woman in America. The shadows of cattle futures, Whitewater, Norman Hsu, Jim McDougal, the Rose Law Firm, Webster Hubbell, Vince Foster – they should all know by now that absolutely nothing sticks. If Sir Ronnie was the teflon president then Hillary Clinton is WD-40 on top of STP on top of teflon on top of steroids. Have a look see: http://realchange.org/hillary.htm
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And Travelgate. Forgot about that one.
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