Hell, yes we still need a select committee on Benghazi. This has gone from bad to worse.
Looking into the privatizing of security in Benghazi - using a firm in which close bud Sydney Blumenthal had a financial interest.
Mentioning the name of a CIA operative in a private email.
Recall the furor over the leak of Valerie Plame’s status as a CIA employee? This is exponentially worse. Both Blumenthal and Hillary put the identity of an intelligence agent in unsecured communications. If anyone hacked this, the information would have easily cost the source his life.
And all the usual players are having a field day with Kevin McCarthy's fatal gaffe, but if you want to talk actual politicization of national security, look to the Hillionaire camp:
At the time, Blumenthal was pushing for an American military intervention, but not exactly for altruistic reasons. His first point in his argument, and his fifth point out of five as well, was a 2011 Quinnipiac poll showing Obama down 41/50 for re-election. “No time for panic,” Blumenthal wrote, “[t]ime to prevent panic.” Blumenthal further argued that stopping a massacre in Benghazi wouldn’t be enough to win an election, because “seeking gratitude from people … soon reaches a counter-productive point.” Blumenthal then tells Hillary this:At this point, Gowdy notes in his letter, Hillary forwards this to Jake Sullivan, saying that “I agree about the need to keep the attack tempo up.” Note that this exceeded the stated mission for the US and NATO in Libya, transforming it from a genocide-prevention operation to a full-blown war of regime change on Qaddafi. The motivation, at least as expressed to Hillary and then forwarded by her to her team, appears to be entirely related to the need to look tough for the re-election campaign.
She cannot sink fast enough.
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