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The White House suggested Monday it may not cooperate with a new House select committee investigating the terror attack in Benghazi.
Press secretary Jay Carney said that the White House has “always cooperated with legitimate oversight,” but called the new probe a “highly partisan effort to politicize” the deadly attack.
“If you look at even what some Republicans have said, it certainly casts doubt on the legitimacy of an effort that is so partisan in nature,” Carney said.
“I don’t think there are many people, including some Republicans… who believe that this is necessary after seven congressional committees and multiple investigations,” he added.
Carney refused to answer questions directly about whether the White House would cooperate, but he noted that there had been 13 congressional hearings, 50 member-and staff briefings, and over 25,000 pages of documents produced over the September 11, 2012 terror attack, in which four Americans were killed.
“One thing this Congress is not short on is investigations into what happened before, during, and after Benghazi,” he said.
“And all of these investigations… have found that the facts as we describe them, in terms of how we approach this, remain exactly as we described them then, the facts of yesterday or the facts today,” Carney continued. “And they will be the facts no matter how often or for how long Republicans engage in highly partisan efforts to politicize what was a tragedy.”
Earlier Monday, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) will head the new select committee.
Boehner decided to call for the committee last week, after the revelation of an email from White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, who recommended then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice should “underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.”
The White House has maintained that Rhodes was merely p
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Love the poster picture.
This whole incident pisses me off. I talk about it with people all the time, making the point how our govt really works and how they have killed countless Americans not just I’m Benghazi but they all just ignore it and go about talking with their friends about what housewives were on last night. The truth is people don’t care anymore because they are content with their pathetic fake lives and will be blindly guided to the gallows. It’s the few of us that are wake that can actually do seething about it we just need to find each other and plan.
“The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide”
… a Kenyan Classic
Heh, heh, heh,….he should know!
I dont need some phoney investigation to tell me washington, both democrats and republicans, are hellbent warmongers supporting muslim brotherhood in the middle east and right sector in ukraine with my tax dollars.
If these subhumans did 9-11 and we fought in afghanistan and iraq to get rid of them, then why the hell are we supporting them today?
You really think there will be an honest investigation, WHAT THE MILLIONTH BOGUS ONE?
The government is beyond corrupt, its pure evil. New World Order!
This going to get ugly fast with Obama squirming and grabbing at war to deflate his troubles at home.
ha, ha, ha, of course they are not going to vilify against themselves. As usual both houses are perfunctory of their elite boss’s. Under the rug I say, lets get on to something more important – like filling our wallets. Again; this is just another concordance of appeasement. They all need to go !!