Republicans are eager to move on from Jan. 6. That's not how they felt about Benghazi, DeanObeidallah writes.
McCarthy admitted in the fall of 2015 that the true goal of the Benghazi committee was political in nature when he appeared on Fox News, where hethat"everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee." He excitedly added:"What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.” for, in his words, “protecting” political appointees from having to answer questions about the attack.
After the Benghazi committee’s work concluded in June 2016, Jordan co-wrote his own report, in which he for failing to cooperate with the investigation, writing: “We make note of the disappointing fact that the administration did not cooperate with our committee’s investigation from the very beginning. In fact, they obstructed our work from day one.”commenting on an investigation into Obama’s IRS, in which he called for IRS commissioner John Koskinen to resign because he “has failed the American people by frustrating Congress’s attempts to ascertain the truth.” But when it comes to the Jan.
After the 9/11 terrorist attack, Republicans united with Democrats to find out the truth and to protect our country from future such attacks. That GOP is dead. In its place is a Republican Party that has chosen to block an investigation into a terrorist attack incited by its leader, Trump, because it fears it will be hurt politically. This GOP hasn’t put America first; it has put political power over all else. This is how democracies die.
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