re: New Benghazi E-mail Akin to Discovery of Nixon Watergate Tapes

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Hell, Rice didn't even definitely blame the video. She said it was the best assessment and that the FBI would give us a more definitive answer following an investigation.

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We are just now learning that the video inciting the attack was not the best assessment, in fact it wasn't even considered related by those paid to make the assessment, and that the Obama administration withheld this information from Congress when the information was requested by subpoena.

Additionally, members of the Obama administration provided testimony to Congress about the government's response to the attack in Benghazi that is contradicted by the recently released email message. The discrepancies between the instructions issued in the Rhodes email and the accounts provided in testimony to Congress are simply to great to just say, "pass - immaterial."

And then there is the matter of intentionally misleading the public as to what happened and why. You give Democrats a free pass on the matter, but you expect Republicans to be held accountable for the same type offense. You don't even bother to try and hide your hypocrisy.

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The nixon administration broke a law,

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wrong.

but keep trying, and lean left.

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He and his comrades lied to the 4 families about their kids being killed because of a video, when they knew it was a terrorist act, ANY POS who lies to our soldiers family about the true cause of their death is a slime POS not worthy of office

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Add that to the Fort Hood shooter and his "workplace disturbance".

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at a minimum he was briefed after the fact. Potentially before the fact.

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keep making things up....without that link.

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And then there is pressing people to lie and withold information.

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And Hillary nearly being disbarred from unethical actions...

What exactly did the break in produce? Was it national security or just political?

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If it were true that the administration knew AQ was attacking the embassy and the annex with a lot of Muamar's leftover military equipment, and didn't send support because it would draw further attention to the situation just before an election, would you consider that a crime?

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If we had legit evidence that we didn't initiate a military response for political reasons, resulting in death, then I don't know about a crime, but I'd certainly say the scandal had more legs.

As it is, we have evidence there was a spin operation that didn't get very far off the ground before the administration had to eat it politically. That, to me, isn't much of a cover up allegation, even though it may well have been the Administration's intention to go further in the cover up.

We can draw inferences about everything else, but I just don't think there is enough there to make it compelling.

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If we had legit evidence that we didn't initiate a military response for political reasons, resulting in death, then I don't know about a crime, but I'd certainly say the scandal had more legs.

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AFRICOM general testimony...yesterday

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AFRICOM general testimony...yesterday

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Speaks only to capability, not to the administration's reasoning. I understand the desire to make that connection, but it isn't there (in evidence).

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Id love to see a "reasonable" explanation as to why not.

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You mean an explanation as to the response or lack thereof?

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I don't know why anyone would dispute that there was potential criminal prosecution at stake for Nixon's administration. That is simply undeniable. We don't know how good the case would have been, but we do know that he resigned under considerable political pressure and that Ford felt compelled to pardon him.

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Come on man, get with it. Of course Nixon would have been charged with perjury for the lies related to the cover-up. No one doubts that.

This is why its absurd to focus on the narrow definition of ' was a crime was committed'.

Nixon's perjury was committed during the congressional investigation of the MASSIVE 'crime' of breaking and entering by political ops. The perjury came about BECAUSE there was an investigation and he was placed under oath.

There are those in this thread who claim that the Benghazi affair is less serious that the Watergate break in because it's not a crime. They aren't referencing the perjury but the break in.