One way to see this is to consider that there were two Bengahzi ads last week both put out by her:
"Could this be the time when Benghazi finally turned from a liability to an asset for Hillary Clinton? If so, it’ll be because the issue has now become less about what the select committee Republicans set up to investigate the matter has found, and more about the committee itself."
"Perhaps this would have happened even if House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hadn’t admitted two weeks ago what everyone already knew, that the driving purpose of the select committee was to harm Hillary Clinton’s political prospects. That one statement has had a remarkable political impact, torpedoing McCarthy’s bid to become Speaker of the House, giving Clinton the opportunity to start attacking the committee in ads, and apparently making lots of people in the press decide that the time has finally come to start taking a serious look at what this committee has been doing for the last 17 months."
"No news outlet in America has been more fervent in its pursuit of Hillary Clinton than the New York Times, but take a look at this article on their front page today, about how the select committee has all but abandoned Benghazi to focus almost entirely on trying to find something damaging on Hillary Clinton."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/10/12/the-tide-turns-against-the-benghazi-committee/
"Could this be the time when Benghazi finally turned from a liability to an asset for Hillary Clinton? If so, it’ll be because the issue has now become less about what the select committee Republicans set up to investigate the matter has found, and more about the committee itself."
"Perhaps this would have happened even if House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hadn’t admitted two weeks ago what everyone already knew, that the driving purpose of the select committee was to harm Hillary Clinton’s political prospects. That one statement has had a remarkable political impact, torpedoing McCarthy’s bid to become Speaker of the House, giving Clinton the opportunity to start attacking the committee in ads, and apparently making lots of people in the press decide that the time has finally come to start taking a serious look at what this committee has been doing for the last 17 months."
"No news outlet in America has been more fervent in its pursuit of Hillary Clinton than the New York Times, but take a look at this article on their front page today, about how the select committee has all but abandoned Benghazi to focus almost entirely on trying to find something damaging on Hillary Clinton."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/10/12/the-tide-turns-against-the-benghazi-committee/
I have chronicled the NY Times big piece this morning.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/trey-gowdy-said-he-warned-boehner.html
If it is becoming as asset for her then it's becoming a liability for a GOP that's already running around literally with its head cut off-no Speaker.
So how long can they keep it running? I don't think Hillary will mind if they do. She's surely looking forward to her testimony than Trey Gowdy is.
Even before the partisan nature of the Committee became unavoidable she was the one who wanted to testify in public and he was who wanted it privately.
But now with the bright light of these revelations he will be much more on the defensive when she testifies than she will.
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