TPM: After yesterday’s nothingburger of a hearing, John Boehner asks President Obama to release a State Department email.
I think the best take on this was from Dana Milbank of all people – “They summoned a whistleblower to Capitol Hill, but instead they got a virtuoso storyteller.” A riveting account of a horrific incident which really didn’t tell us stuff we didn’t know before or do what Republicans wanted, which was to suggest bad acts or dereliction on the part of President Obama or Hillary Clinton. About all you could use Hicks’s testimony for is actual oversight aimed at improving security policy going forward.
So the Darrell Issa clown show yesterday proved the current Administration didn't trade American lives for political gain. It turns out then, the only people who did trade American lives for political gain in this episode was the Republican party. It's was the Republican party that sold out these four Americans for political gain. The Republican party, including Darrell, Issa, successfully voted to cut funds for diplomatic security, and did sot only after Obama was elected. If they had better security in Benghazi they would be alive today. Harry Reid should hold hearings on that in the senate.
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