Sunday, May 12, 2013

Darrell Issa's appearance on Meet the Press to attack Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration over Benghazi was full of lies and half truths. Raise your hand if that surprises you in the least.


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This from Think Progress: 

Issa claimed that the administration leaned heavily on the CIA to change its draft of the now infamous set of unclassified talking points on what happened in Benghazi to better fit a political narrative and hiding the true nature of the attack from the American people:

ISSA: The fact is, we want the facts, we’re entitled to the facts. The American people were effectively lied to for a period of about a month. That’s important to get right. And – 

GREGORY: I just want to be clear here what you believe the lie was. 

ISSA: This was a terrorist attack from the get-go. The attack succeeded extremely quickly, because in no small part because the consulate or the diplomatic facility in Benghazi was not given the support it needed or quite frankly the decision to leave which might have been just as good. Either way, they were in fact covering up an easy attack that succeeded that was from the get-go about a terrorist attack. It was never about a video. 

Counter to Issa’s claim, however, the evidence shows that while the administration acted cautiously in what it put forward, it ultimately told the public just what it knew to be fact about the attack. President Obama himself referred to the assault in Libya as an “act of terror” at least twice within 48 hours. 

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice delivered the final draft of the talking points on Sept. 16, 2012, appearing on all five Sunday news shows. Rice gave what was at the time the administrations’ best knowledge about what caused the attacks, saying that it was the result of a demonstration that mutated into a coordinated attack. Those appearances lead to her being the target of a Republican smear campaign in the weeks and months ahead. 

From the CIA’s original draft of the talking points, however, the intelligence community believed that what occurred in Benghazi was “spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.” The Cairo protests were, in fact, spurred on by an anti-Islamic video as Rice ultimately wound up referencing in her appearances. In another draft, before the document was provided to the rest of the government for input, the word “attack” became “demonstrations,” showing that the very claim that Republicans have accused the White House of lying about came from the CIA itself. The view that the video had at least some part to play in the attack’s genesis has been borne out in later reporting.

Ambassador Thomas Pickering was also a guest on MTP and he refuted virtually all that Issa claimed as well. What's more is that Pickering has essentially absolved Hillary Clinton, who is clearly the target of this GOP smear campaign, from any culpability for the decisions made the night of the Begnhazi attack.



You know every once is a while I watch somebody on TV that almost puts the survival of my prized flat screen television at risk. Such was the case while watching Darrell Issa this morning.

His smarmy attitude and transparently partisan attacks on Hillary Clinton and the President made me crazy. And I mean CRAZY!

I work very hard to maintain my composure these days, but if I had been in the same room with that POS I swear I would have made a very bad choice for both of us.

But then after I got mad at him, I got mad at the Democrats.

No not for Benghazi, or the talking points afterward, or how ineffective they have been in defending themselves against this blatant smear campaign.

No I am mad because here are the Republicans making this huge deal out of what is, in the great scheme of things, essentially a minor tragedy, while the Democrats NEVER used the overwhelming mountain of evidence which indicated a jaw dropping level of criminal, unethical, and incompetent behavior demonstrated by the Bush administration to bring any of those bastards to justice.

Not fucking one of them!

If the Obama administration had done one tenth of the things the Bush administration had done, or been responsible for even one percent of the deaths our citizens and soldiers, the Republicans would NEVER have stopped making them pay for it. But instead those motherfuckers walked away free, and then have the nerve to turn around and hold this President to such impossibly high standards.

Like I said, it is a good goddamn thing we were not in the same room.

Update: Perhaps we could a couple of containers of this to ease the Republican butthurt over Benghazi.

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28 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:16 PM

    I'm guessing the strategy here is to make false claims like crazy; then, once they are shown to be bullshit, claiming "the media" is covering up the "truth."

    That is a childish way of doing things. The fact that it will WORK on so many dimwitted Americans, is the real tragedy.

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    1. Anonymous3:54 PM

      He's a Lebanese criminal. http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/01/11/report-media-ignore-rep-issas-alleged-criminal/174997

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  2. Anonymous2:18 PM

    Issa reminds me of a gangster. He is as corrupt and dishonest as they come (this isn't a secret). They are deathly afraid of Hillary so this will continue. They are going full retard as they pander to their dim witted base.

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    1. Anonymous3:18 PM

      Are we going to continue see the Republicans pull up every thing they can against Hillary Clinton until 2016? Nothing will stick! They don't have a candidate that can compete against her - she is bright - has far more experience and is so well qualified. Plus, she is 'woman'. I can hardly wait to watch her beat the shit out of them should she run. It'll be a kick in the butt having Dems hold the White House for 16 years.

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    2. Anonymous3:20 PM

      I'd love to see Hillary go head to head w/Issa especially - his wee wee and balls would shrink to one inch!! The guy is a first class jerk and corrupt as they come - check his record folks!

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  3. Anonymous2:26 PM

    Issa should have gone to prison years ago. How dare he pretend to have the moral high ground.
    Beaglemom

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    1. Anonymous2:42 PM

      Agreed, but when people like him and Sarah are NOT jailed for their crimes, they suddenly believe that they didn't commit any. I'm certain Bush has no clue why the international community will arrest him if he shows his creepy grin at their airports. He thinks he was a good President. They a re, basically, insane. The whole lot of them.

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  4. Anonymous2:44 PM

    The Muslim socialist will be impeached before the end of summer.
    The most important step in
    Taking back our country

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    1. Anonymous2:59 PM

      No
      Just another American patriot

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    2. Anonymous3:04 PM

      2:44 PM The Grifter Queen and her Pimp will be indicted for Tax Evasion before the end of the summer. Now go spend some time with the Delinquents you 1/2 raised before you and Tawd are Jailed.

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    3. Anonymous3:17 PM

      The new definition of "Mass Confusion"

      Mother's Day at the Palin compound.

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    4. Anonymous6:40 PM

      It is not patriotic to make up lies about the President of the United States and then pretend you're going to try to impeach him, which you cannot and will not do. Actually, it's call treason.

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    5. "Anonymous2:59 PM
      No Just another American patriot>"

      You are not a patriot. You are just a treasonous, un-American moron who does not deserve to live in this country. You are also unintelligent and uneducated as demonstrated by your repeated and consistent inability to construct a grammatical English sentence.

      People like you are low-life scum who hate America and we will never let thugs like you take it from us to destroy it as you are trying to do.

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  5. Anonymous3:08 PM

    The guy is an asshole!! Can think of other words for him, but can't put them here!

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    1. Anonymous3:52 PM

      And a car thief! http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/01/11/report-media-ignore-rep-issas-alleged-criminal/174997

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  6. Anonymous3:21 PM

    And at 2:44 PM we have an example of the dimwitted base Issa is performing for.

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  7. Anonymous3:42 PM

    What is anyone taking the word of a car thief?

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  8. Anonymous3:54 PM

    Issa should be censured or even expelled for lying during these hearings.

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  9. Anonymous4:04 PM

    This is just like all the other lies the GOP has trotted out over the past 5 years.

    Their strategy: tell the lie enough times, in a loud voice, and with complete conviction, and it won't matter if it's true. The right wingers look for any excuse to hate the President and everyone to the left of Genghis Khan. They'll believe it because they WANT to believe it.

    Facts don't matter,

    Truth doesn't matter.

    Proof doesn't matter.

    Lie. Rinse. Repeat.

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  10. Anonymous4:31 PM

    Mr Issa,

    US citizens and the world were lied to for eight years over the invasion of Iraq and WMD's. So please stick the Libya nonsense up your ass!

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  11. Issa isa assa-hola. Always has been always will be and paid quite well for being an armchair seditionist.

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  12. Anonymous8:11 PM

    The Bengazi incident has morphed into a finger-pointing outrage which serves to divide the American public along party lines. This was nothing more than a CIA operation gone bad, with the government put in charge of covering it up (which also went bad). Political theatre to divert the masses.

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    1. You clearly don't have any critical thinking skills.

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  13. Anonymous8:26 PM

    ^5 to whomever in an earlier thread said VEEP is Palin. Rolling in laughter! Sure is....

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  14. Anonymous9:35 PM

    To His Face: Amb. Pickering Refutes Darrell Issa’s Claim That He ‘Refused’ To Testify At Benghazi Hearing

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/to-his-face-amb-pickering-refutes-darrell-issas-claim-that-he-refused-to-testify-at-benghazi-hearing/

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  15. Anonymous10:29 PM

    Issa is an Ass...a.

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  16. Anonymous5:01 AM

    This is all just Rethuglican delaying tactics designed to keep nothing of substance from happening in Washington. That it has been planned for, and executed, merely because our president is black, (and a socialist/marxist Kenyan-born, Muslim-loving intellectual to boot,) from the moment of his election is the most repugnant, racist and childish aspect of this whole farce.

    I'm ashamed to be an American because these petulant 2-year-olds with teabags hanging from their hats are fucking our country over so badly WE WILL NOT RECOVER.

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