While I’m giving quizzes, here’s another one. Put into priority the following goals of the House Oversight and Government Committee in its investigations into what happened in Benghazi in September 2012:
- Arriving at a fair and factual assessment of the events that lead to the deaths of four Americans.
- Impeaching the president
- Battlespace preparation for 2016
- Keeping the issue in the public eye to embarrass the president
- Staying in the public eye personally
- Other (specify)
I’ve always thought it was keeping the issue in the public eye, self-aggrandizement, battlespace preparation, embarrassing the president, impeaching the president, arriving at, etc.
Election politics. I also think it is part of their attempt to shake the bushes as much as possible, hoping that another Monica pops out. Anytime something happens they now ask for every email the person ever wrote all the way back to grade school.
Steve
I think #3 has been a prime motivation with respect to Hillary.
Speaking of which, what’s the consensus here on this:
http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/15/benghazi-bombshell-clinton-state-department-official-reveals-alleged-details-document-review/
Just a guy with an axe to grind, or did they really scrub the documents before handing over to the ARB?
My reaction to it was that it was too thinly sourced to be reported as news. One witness: guy with an ax to grind. Two witnesses: news.
They all sho ’nuff ‘zerkers if they think I’ll stand vigilant on the battlements for Hilary or whatever yahoo the Pubs come up with this time.
No, let me guess. That cute boy Rand, right…?
Howwever, that kid Marco Rubio was making some sense on this ME mess on NPR the other morning.
I might come to like him if he establishes some independence.
Trey Gowdy, who is heading this committee, has earned high marks on both sides of the aisle, for his personal ethics, fairness, and tenacity for truth-seeking. He’s had solid experience as a prosecutor which may account for an uncanny ability to cut to the chase in his questioning– rather than occupying his vanity with pursuing on-camera political theater.
Consequently, under his direction, combined with the quality slate of people chosen to represent the R side of this committee, I see the first item on your list as being the primary goal of this House Oversight expedition into Benghazi.
A secondary quest, IMO, is to probe more fully the role the State Department had in this security fiasco. That would include HRC, as she was the U.S. SOS at the time, and has subtly tried to distant herself from Benghazi — taking little responsibility for it’s outcome, other than to vocalize a routine “I’m responsible” utterance, after which she disappeared. People, nevertheless, are suggesting any further probe into Benghazi is merely a gimmick to derail her 2016 POTUS ambitions — something I see as a distracting claim, all unto itself, as Clinton was a major player before, during and after Benghazi. Her decisions, actions, and honesty, in detailing and reconciling the events taking place in Benghazi, are an important piece of the puzzle in reconstructing what went wrong in Libya on 9/11/12. How she handles this is also telling as to her desirability in being even considered for the high office of POTUS in ’16. Character does count…..!
Furthermore, the ARB has proven to be a disgraceful, inaccurate, sloppily recorded accounting of this incident. The fact that a U.S. ambassador was murdered — the first one since the late ’70’s — should require a higher priority number and more clarity than what has apparently satisfied those who simply want to move on… So, “keeping it in the public eye,” until on-the-ground accounts and other little murky details have been exhumed and reexamined, I presume would be the third goal of this committee.
If it is proven that the WH deliberately covered up facts in Benghazi then a by-product would be shame or embarrassment for the president. However, I don’t see this as being a goal of their’s. And, impeachment is a fond but deluded wish residing in the heads of far left (to excoriate the right), and far right (to expediently get rid of a presidential nemesis) sided political opportunists. It’s not been seen, though, on anyone else’s agenda.