Courtesy of Salon:
“Whether or not they [the military] could have gotten there in time – I don’t think there’s any issue with respect to that. They couldn’t,” Gowdy said. But, in an effort to justify his committee’s continued efforts, he argued that important context had been omitted from Chipman’s remarks. “The next question,” Gowdy explained, “is why could you [the military] not? Why were you not positioned to do it?” That’s the critical question, Gowdy insisted: why the military wasn’t prepared to respond to a Benghazi-like attack.
Well, guess what? That question has been asked and answered already.
Salon then goes on to explain that previous investigations had already determined that there was inadequate security, and the President himself admitted this in 2014 and said that changes needed to be made to better protect our diplomats in the future.
It has also already been determined that there was no wrongdoing on the part of the Obama administration, military, or CIA concerning their response to the attacks in Benghazi.
By the way Secretary Clinton was part of the Obama administration at the time.
So if everybody has already been exonerated, and Gowdy himself admits that the military could not have arrived in time to save the day, what exactly is the point?
Well of course the point is the same one behind this ridiculous "Clinton Cash" movie, Donald Trump referring to her as "Crooked Hillary Clinton," and every other Right Wing attack on the internet.
It is to do damage to Hillary and hopefully prevent her from winning this next election.
And toward that end Donald Trump, the House Republicans, internet trolls, The Drudge Report, Fox News, and now the Bernie Sanders campaign are working as one.
Is it really any wonder that Hillary Clinton's favorability numbers are falling?
There is also that little, niggling fact that the GOP cut the budget for security at our overseas posts. Of course, why not? Nothing bad ever happens at embassies, does it? SMH
ReplyDeleteYes, "that which shall never be mentioned." A majority of issues in this country have been due to a GOP-controlled congress. Heck, look at GOP governed states!
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ReplyDelete"And toward that end Donald Trump, the House Republicans, internet trolls, The Drudge Report, Fox News, and now the Bernie Sanders campaign are working as one."
Oh brother...
Donald Trump Shows What A Hypocritical Coward He Really Is
DeleteWhile speaking the NRA, Donald Trump demanded that Hillary Clinton's Secret Service agents give up their firearms, but Trump has also supported banning guns which means that his Secret Service agents should disarm.
...The problem with Trump’s statement is that he has Secret Service agents protecting him. By Trump’s own standard, his Secret Service agents should be forced to disarm. Donald Trump wanted to ban assault weapons. Trump wanted a longer waiting period on gun purchases. Trump is anti-Second Amendment. Let’s see how safe Donald Trump feels without his Secret Service agents armed and protecting him.
Donald Trump is a pathologically lying hypocrite, whose hypocrisy can only best be challenged by having his Secret Service agents disarm in the name of defending the 2nd Amendment.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/05/20/donald-trump-shows-hypocritical-coward-speaking-nra.html
Oh brother,oh mother and rolling my eyes too. If your goal is to minimize the democratic party, you're doing splendid, Gruff.
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ReplyDeleteBenghazi is the least of Hillary's problems.
"Catherine: On the e-mails director Comey, are you doing a security inquiry?
Director Comey: I’m sorry?
Catherine: On the e-mails are you doing a security inquiry?
Director Comey: I don’t know what that means?
Catherine: So it’s a criminal investigation?
Director Comey: We’re conducting an investigation. That’s the bureau’s business. That’s what we do. That’s probably all I can say about it.
Catherine: The reason I ask is because Mrs. Clinton consistently refers to it as a security inquiry, but the FBI does criminal investigations. I just want to see if you can clear that up.
Director Comey: Right, it’s in our name.
Catherine: Okay.
Director Comey: I’m not familiar with the term security inquiry."
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/director-comey-remarks-during-may-11-pen-and-pad-with-reporters
Yeah, sending emails on a home account is such a crime, Condi and Colin are already in jail. Oh wait. Republicans can poison cities full of kids with bad water and no one bats an eye.
DeleteGive up on the idea of an indictment. No one was hurt by her emails. No crime committed. Practice saying, "Madame President"
It's no wonder some of you are so infatuated with Hillary. You're just as smug as she is.
Delete8:58 - #losing
Delete8:58- grow up, really!
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ReplyDelete“Honestly, I mean, I just believe that this is the most important job in the world, it’s the toughest job in the world. You should be willing to campaign for every vote. You should be willing to debate anytime, anywhere. I think it’s an interesting juxtaposition, where we find ourselves. And, you know, I have been willing to do all of that, during the entire process, and people have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa.” -HRC 2008
Bernie is still in the race.
And Hillary won't debate him.
Chicken!
Dear Asterisk Person,
DeleteGive it up. You just look like a complete fool with yoir constant Bernie Bro shit.
I'm trying to figure out what exactly is wrong with you. You seem obsessed with criticizing Hillary Clinton. How may times have you commented over the past few days?
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I'm sorry,but I gave direct quotes.
And you brought what?
Seriously. What more is tehre to say? The guy has said anything new in the last 8 months. You expect her to give him the opportunity to stand on the stage and disrespectully wag his fuckin finger at her? Fuckin chauvinist.
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So this pinhead spent how many millions of taxpayer dollars for nothing? I hope he's proud of himself. Ignorant dipshit.
ReplyDeleteSimple word association. "Crooked" and repeat it over and over again until it's believed. To be perfectly honest, I think they all are.
ReplyDeleteHi, Alicia.
DeleteAlicia must be code for "You're wrong and I'm right neener neener neener."
DeleteYes, the Donald is following the old "repeat a lie often enough people will believe it" school of propaganda, taken from Hitler's playbook "How to make people believe the Aryan race is blue-eyed, blond and German even though you are brown-eyed, brown haired Austrian".
DeleteThe pro Bernie 'operative' is one again flooding the comments with worthless tripe. What a clown.
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Really?
"worthless tripe"
That's all you got?
Anonymous5:22 PM
Deletestupid, worthless tripe
"...Donald Trump, the House Republicans, internet trolls, The Drudge Report, Fox News, and now the Bernie Sanders campaign are working as one"
ReplyDeleteParanoid thinking typically includes persecutory ideation and beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself (e.g. "Everyone is out to get me").
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No shit!
Dang,makes you wonder if he reads infowars/AlexJones...
Wii, 5:08 could be right. Look at trumps connections with the enquiror.
DeleteI thought that was the Sanders' campaign schtick. Every time he loses it's a Clinton conspiracy.
DeleteAmbassador Stevens is totally responsible for this debacle. He did not/would not listen to his RSO.
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Boy, did you ever hit the nail on the head on that one. Why isn't this being said in the media? It's so damn true. He knew EXACTLY what the situation was. He turned away security. It's unfortunate that it cost him his life, but yes, he is responsible for his not so smart choices.
DeleteAnd EVERYBODY got an email telling them to stay the fuck home on September 11th. I'm sorry he died in such a violent way, but he was an arrogant asshole and his choice caused the deaths of some very good, loyal, honorable men.
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@6:59 I read that they tried to rescue Ambassador Stevens but the smoke was too thick in the building and they couldn't find him. When they finally did locate him, he was suffering from smoke inhalation, and he was immediately transported to the hospital where, unfortunately, he eventually died. I had to read this account when Sarah Palin accused our troops of leaving the Ambassador and the other three people behind. This account doesn't sound as if left the Ambassador behind, but tried to rescue him.
DeleteTrey Gowdy: Benghazi Committee’s Report Will Be Released Before DNC, RNC Conventions
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Which committee report, haven't there been about 11 committees? He has been wasting taxpayers money for years- I want a refund, they should garnish his wages or impeach him !!!
DeleteLie down with junk yard dogs, get up with fleas and ticks.
ReplyDeleteFox News CEO Roger Ailes reportedly “snickering” with glee over failure of Megyn Kelly’s Trump special
New York’s Gabriel Sherman is reporting that in addition to being a ratings and financial failure, Megyn Kelly’s interview with Donald Trump has resulted in her losing most of the leverage she had in her upcoming contract negotiations.
Fox executives were willing to consider 9 million viewers a success, but Kelly’s supposedly mainstream appeal didn’t translate to the parent network, and she only netted 4.8 million viewers. It was, as one Fox insider told Sherman, “not good for her at all.”
In fact, her boss Roger Ailes was apparently so tickled by the fact that he would not have to pay her a reported $25 million to remain at Fox News that he was heard “snickering” in a Thursday meeting when the special was mentioned.
For her part,
In the days since, Kelly has been working to contain the fallout. She took aim at critics on her cable show Wednesday night by deploying an age-old Fox News tactic: claiming the backlash was a result of liberal media bias. But behind the scenes, she is said to be worried about the response. “She’s very upset with the show reaction, and in hindsight with how it was produced,” one Fox veteran told me…
http://www.salon.com/2016/05/20/fox_news_ceo_roger_ailes_reportedly_snickering_with_glee_over_failure_of_megyn_kellys_trump_special/
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/05/whats-next-for-megyn-kelly.html
Megyn Kelly no longer such a media darling after Barbara Walters-esque Trump interview
DeleteBut as Kelly and Trump appeared to put their nasty — largely because of Trump, we should note — feud behind them in an interview that aired on the main Fox network Tuesday night, the 45-year-old lawyer-turned-journalist’s status as a media darling appeared to disappear.
In the Los Angeles Times, TV critic Mary McNamara was brutal: “Megyn Kelly didn’t ask Donald Trump to headline her Fox special ‘Megyn Kelly Presents’ so she could pin him down on foreign and domestic policy issues, or even confront him about the months-long troll attack he launched after she dared question him during the first Republican debate about his penchant for misogynistic language. No, she invited him to costar in an hourlong infomercial for her new book.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/18/after-barbara-walters-esque-donald-trump-interview-megyn-kelly-no-longer-such-a-media-darling/
Kelly did a ridiculous job. And, the joke about all of this is that Donald Trump set her up to fail!!
DeleteSomeone needs to take the guy down and I have no clue who it will be EXCEPT for the American people when it comes to voting in November.
Vote him down, Americans! The guy is a horrid representative for America and heads of Europe are all telling us so!
It's a very easy vote - negate his fat, white ass!
He is a stupid stupid man...hahaha
ReplyDeleteGowdy has a very interesting physical appearance. I can see him in a Nazi uniform to which he'd fit and look that image! The guy is one nasty creep!
ReplyDeleteIt would be outstanding were he to lose his seat in Congress (and position)! He's wasted taxpayer money like no other in trying to bring down Hillary Clinton. Screw him - he looks like he has one tight ass!
Vote for Hillary Clinton! She has the experience and know how as to being our next POTUS! Plus, she doesn't act at all like any of the Republicans in spite of what they all say about her!
He's wasted millions of tax payer dollars on this witch hunt. His flat face is common among those born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
DeleteHe clearly isn't right in the head.
7:00, I can't believe you said that about the Nazi uniform. The first time I saw him, I thought he'd be a perfect Nazi in a WWII movie.
DeleteI recognized him right off as that kid who starred in Deliverance a few years back. Plays a mean banjo too.
DeleteBut Hollywood can be mean streets for an ugly guy with no personality and his career went down the tubes. Rumor was he tried out for the Draco part in the Potter movies but casting turned him down saying they were looking for someone mean but who could be made up to look like a human.
Guess it's too much to ask that people stay on post. :)
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Trey Gowdy needs to chill with a 310 shake.
ReplyDeleteLet me tell you. I have gone to the sites like REDSTATE and even Breitbart.
ReplyDeletePalin is done and what is amazing is they say she sold out and they bring up her family and say she has too much baggage.Old Sarah has a very small loyal following compared what it used to be.
Many and i mean many of her former followers were all in for Ted Cruise She is now looked at as a traitor. Palin jumped the shark going all out for Trump, hell even he has dumped her ass.She has become a pariah and why is she silent? Ask Track. This month he gets his sentence and she knows it. So let's get the word out about what a good Mamma Grizzly she is. And lets not forget about Todd and his "snow machine' accident.
He was drunk, plain and simple. Meanwhile back at the Pee Pond they really think Trump wants Palin for Vice President.Virginia Gentelman is the head honcho with the inside scoop from sources he wont name! and they all bow down to his ass. One day he is dying and the next he is doing ok! Meanwhile his wife has cancer. Wont you contribute to his fund?
I don't believe a word of his bullshit. He always talks like a script .Birds, his wife's cat, and he always watches the sunrise with his cup of coffee.Give to the VG fund! His wife is an nurse supposedly and if she was or is they make good money. What a fraud.
head honcho with the inside scoop from sources he wont name!
DeleteUh-huh.
I love how her former fans say her voice has suddenly become grating to their ears
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I love how the rrrr constitutional evil clown posse believe that their crimes are constitutional. After all their privatizing, rigging, fracking, lying, cheating and stealing? Poor fox news clowns believe that everyone smoked pot and all is forgotten. NOPE. Maybe the lack of formal education? will do it. or Maybe the private brainwashed heritage education system will help destroy America. Are yer too dumb yet to understand that the republican obstruction, destruction, pledges, promises, gloom, doom and repeat repeat are as clear as the blue skies. The military defunding, shutting down our buildings, historic parks is the evil clown constitutional agenda. The hateful ungrateful American constitutional clown agenda. And Trojan rump is their face and voice.
ReplyDeleteLoving the constitutional rump fest has become boring already. I'm already sic of hearing president rump rump rump rump HUGE rump rump rump. So NO. nope nada. Click. turn off the box. Vote to end citizen united, and the constitutional clown agenda. And anyone that stands in that corner with liars, cons and frauds that bully on elderly, kids, women and the earth? Really? what religion and constitution is that again? They know it and so do we. liars and con artist don't succeed.
ReplyDeleteWhen I clicked onto this article I caught my breath for a second as I peered onto Trey's face because it took me to the Deliverance movie and the kid playing the banjo duel. And then, I realized that the kid and Gowdy really aren't that far different.
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