Which kind of begs the question: why isn't the Benghazi Committee forced to register itself as a Super PAC?
As it's intent couldn't be more nakedly political. There's the irony. While Gowdy and friends scour every Hillary email she ever wrote to Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills with a fine tooth comb to discover any conflict of interest no matter how trivial, the investigation itself is a giant, walking, talking conflict of interest.
Remember when they mocked Al Gore in 2000 over 'No controlling legal authority./
As usual the fact that Gore was right was besides the point. Somehow he had cheated and the media picked that moral sophistry up and ran with it.
But while they claimed that Gore misused the White House for campaign activities how do they justify the Benghazi Committee that has now gone on longer than any investigation in US history-longer than Pearl Harbor, longer than JFK's assassination, longer than Watergate, 9/11.
Despite finding nothing. In my last piece I documented how the Tea Parties in the House want Trey Gowdy as new Speaker.
UPDATE: And interestingly Politico's Jake Sherman has just claimed that Boehner had urged Gowdy to go for Speaker as well.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/boehner-secretly-encouraged-gowdy-to-run-for-leader-214256#ixzz3nEYMey7W
But not to worry: Kevin McCarthy who conventional wisdom says is on a 'glide path to Speaker' also has the religion. McCarthy gloats that Benghazi Committee has hurt Hillary Cllinton's poll numbers.
"REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CA): The question I think you really want to ask me is, how am I going to be different? What are you going to see differently?"
"SEAN HANNITY (HOST): I love how you asked my questions. But go ahead, that was one of my questions, go right ahead."
"MCCARTHY: I knew you'd want to ask it. What you're going to see is a conservative speaker, that takes a conservative Congress, that puts a strategy to fight and win. And let me give you one example. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought and made that happen."
"HANNITY: I agree. That's something good, I give you credit for that, I give you credit for sequestration, I give you credit -- I'll give you credit where credit is due."
http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/29/after-republican-lawmaker-boasts-that-benghazi/205867
So the question begs: by the rules set for Hillary's emails in terms of reading everything as a potential conflict interest isn't the admission by the presumed next Speaker of the House that the Bengahzi Committee has been used for oppo research to bring down Hillary's poll numbers be highly problematic in and of itself?
Isn't this deserving of its own investigation?
As it's intent couldn't be more nakedly political. There's the irony. While Gowdy and friends scour every Hillary email she ever wrote to Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills with a fine tooth comb to discover any conflict of interest no matter how trivial, the investigation itself is a giant, walking, talking conflict of interest.
Remember when they mocked Al Gore in 2000 over 'No controlling legal authority./
As usual the fact that Gore was right was besides the point. Somehow he had cheated and the media picked that moral sophistry up and ran with it.
But while they claimed that Gore misused the White House for campaign activities how do they justify the Benghazi Committee that has now gone on longer than any investigation in US history-longer than Pearl Harbor, longer than JFK's assassination, longer than Watergate, 9/11.
Despite finding nothing. In my last piece I documented how the Tea Parties in the House want Trey Gowdy as new Speaker.
UPDATE: And interestingly Politico's Jake Sherman has just claimed that Boehner had urged Gowdy to go for Speaker as well.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/boehner-secretly-encouraged-gowdy-to-run-for-leader-214256#ixzz3nEYMey7W
But not to worry: Kevin McCarthy who conventional wisdom says is on a 'glide path to Speaker' also has the religion. McCarthy gloats that Benghazi Committee has hurt Hillary Cllinton's poll numbers.
"REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CA): The question I think you really want to ask me is, how am I going to be different? What are you going to see differently?"
"SEAN HANNITY (HOST): I love how you asked my questions. But go ahead, that was one of my questions, go right ahead."
"MCCARTHY: I knew you'd want to ask it. What you're going to see is a conservative speaker, that takes a conservative Congress, that puts a strategy to fight and win. And let me give you one example. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought and made that happen."
"HANNITY: I agree. That's something good, I give you credit for that, I give you credit for sequestration, I give you credit -- I'll give you credit where credit is due."
http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/29/after-republican-lawmaker-boasts-that-benghazi/205867
So the question begs: by the rules set for Hillary's emails in terms of reading everything as a potential conflict interest isn't the admission by the presumed next Speaker of the House that the Bengahzi Committee has been used for oppo research to bring down Hillary's poll numbers be highly problematic in and of itself?
Isn't this deserving of its own investigation?
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