If Republicans really want to investigate what went wrong in Benghazi, they need to look in a mirror

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/12/1298773/-If-Republicans-really-want-to-investigate-what-went-wrong-in-Benghazi-they-need-to-look-in-a-mirror?detail=email

Benghazi Select Committee

You want a Benghazi scandal?

Even after Congress approved the U.S. military joining a NATO mission in May 2011 whose efforts contributed to Gadhafi’s fall and death, neither the House nor the Senate ever held a hearing about Libya and what the NATO-led effort had left behind. After four decades of living under Gadhafi, all with no real security force or order, Libya struggled to maintain security, its economy failed to recover and the weak government in Tripoli was powerless to fend off extremists who took control of the restive country.

Republicans were front and center in the failure to explore what was happening in Libya. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a harsh critic of the Obama administration over its handling of the Benghazi attacks, met with Stevens during a July 2012 visit to Libya, just two months before Stevens’ death. A month earlier, unknown attackers in Benghazi had attempted to assassinate the British ambassador to Libya.

this is what we've seen all the long they are complicit in the happenings of all their republican made scandals they do the dirt than try to sweep it on Pres.'s shoes, we know how quick they are to sy "the other side does it too, i've only heard one commentator ask how and what usually it just floats out there for bashers to use in next rant, like leaving the republican lies as the last thing they say, some take that away and run with it like their hair is on fire.

In response to the attempted assassination, Britain closed its consulate. McCain didn't mention it. McCain didn't mention that security was imploding. McCain did issue a press release lauding the great strides Libya was making toward democracy. This was as accurate as his infamous 2007 lauding of the security in Iraq, as that country was spiraling into hell.

The intelligence community “produced hundreds of analytic reports in the months preceding the Sept. 11-12, 2012, attacks, providing strategic warning that militias and terrorist and affiliated groups had the capability and intent to strike U.S. and Western facilities and personnel in Libya,” according to a report by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that was released in January.

 And yet, in the year and a half between the U.S. intervention in Libya and the attack at Benghazi, despite those hundreds of warnings, McCain and his pet poodle Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) issued exactly two combined press releases pertaining to Libya.

It gets better.

The chairman of the new House select committee has a mixed record on Libya. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., voted for the resolution that allowed for U.S. intervention. But weeks later, he supported one intended to prevent the U.S. from providing the kind of military presence that some argue was needed to prevent Libya’s post-Gadhafi decline into chaos. That resolution read in part: “The President has failed to provide Congress with a compelling rationale based upon U.S. national security interests for current US military activities regarding Libya.”

Let's reiterate: the chairman of the witch hunt investigative committee voted for U.S. intervention in Libya, then voted against the robust military presence that might have protected the Benghazi diplomatic mission.

as usual half cocked releases to a half cocked base leads to under informed base blaming the wrong people for what their leaders did.  another example how our side is late to the gate they should have been on that like a lion on a pork chop instead we get wasted millions and years of unanswered republican lies, we lose.