Yeah, it's pretty much more of the same - i.e. all the Republicans can do - howl in impotent outrage at the entrenched, invincible Obama Regime over another of its flagrant crimes.
But the Joseph Welch-esque tirade that Jason Chaffetz unleashed this afternoon bears amplification:
Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah[-3] became visibly angry in a hearing Thursday as he described how it was clear the White House was the source of the claim that a video was responsible for that attack.
Noting that earlier investigations revealed that military commanders became aware of what was actually happening, Chaffetz asked retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier Gen. Robert Lovell: "How quickly did you come to the conclusion that you believed they were al-Qaida affiliates or al-Qaida themselves involved and engaged in this attack?"
"Very, very soon," Lovell replied. "When we were still in the very early, early hours of this activity."
"Was it a video?" Chaffetz probed.
"No, sir," Lovell replied.
Lovell was monitoring the attack from U.S. Africa Command's headquarters in Germany. He says it was clear the attack was hostile action.
"The scandal that is here, that some choose to ignore as a phony scandal, is the fact that the CIA, the CIA station chief, the military themselves — you have the person sitting in front of us who's the head of intelligence — he's looking at the intelligence," Chaffetz exclaimed. "They come to the conclusion that it's Ansar al-Sharia."
"And then you also have the Department of State telling the Libyans that it was Ansar al-Sharia," he continued. "None of them think it's a video. None of them."
"The military, the CIA, the CIA station chief, the State Department, all of them; the facts at the time, Mr. Chairman, the facts do not point to a video," Chaffetz concluded. "That only comes from the White House."
"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
Nope:
The White House, meanwhile, continued to deny that the email was about Benghazi.
"It was explicitly not about Benghazi," Carney told journalists during his daily briefing in the White House. "It was about the overall situation in the region, the Muslim world, where you saw protests outside of embassy facilities across the region, including in Cairo, Sana'a, Khartoum and Tunis."
Maybe taking the Senate away from these filthbags will make a difference. Probably not, since either (1) O will go into formal, permanent lame duck mode, making an impeachment drive harder to justify, or (2) he'll simply refuse to leave office and we'll be saddled with an even bigger constitutional crisis. But one can always hope.
And pray.
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