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New Benghazi E-mail Akin to Discovery of Nixon Watergate Tapes
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:27 am
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:27 am
So says Charles Krauthammer.
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The discovery, over a year after the September 11, 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, of an e-mail from a White House political operative that shows him suggesting that former United Nations ambassador Susan Rice underscore that the attack was a reaction to an Internet video is, according to Charles Krauthammer, like the discovery of the Nixon tapes that blew open the Watergate scandal in 1973.
“It’s to me the equivalent of what was discovered with the Nixon tapes,” Krauthammer said Thursday. “The point is that Republicans have done a terrible job in building the case. Even today I have to say, the questioning was disjointed, it was not organized. If they had appointed a special committee [a] long time ago the way it was done in Watergate, you would have had answers on this and the country wouldn't be tired.”
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Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:29 am to L.A.
Uh, no 
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:31 am to L.A.
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“The point is that Republicans have done a terrible job in building the case. Even today I have to say, the questioning was disjointed, it was not organized. If they had appointed a special committee [a] long time ago the way it was done in Watergate, you would have had answers on this and the country wouldn't be tired.”
Agree with this statement 100%... But to tie it to that of Watergate is
I said it yesterday and I'll say it again. The coverup is worse than the actual action in this instance.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:32 am to L.A.
:inb4whatdoesitmatter:
Seriously, the email discovery might be akin to the Nixon Watergate tapes but the big difference is Nixon was Republican so expect a meh reaction from the media on Benghazi.
Now if the tables were turned and Obama was GOP, DC would be a shitstorm of media "doing their job".
Seriously, the email discovery might be akin to the Nixon Watergate tapes but the big difference is Nixon was Republican so expect a meh reaction from the media on Benghazi.
Now if the tables were turned and Obama was GOP, DC would be a shitstorm of media "doing their job".
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:32 am to L.A.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:42 am to L.A.
Dude, that was like two years ago.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 11:48 am to L.A.
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@EuromaidanPR
Obama: What we see in Eastern Ukraine is no spontaneous uprising. Normal people don't shoot down helicopters. | EMPR News #USA #Germany
Obama said this in his press conference with Merkel. Can anyone find any irony in this statement?
Posted on 5/2/14 at 12:17 pm to L.A.
Cliven Bundy! Don Sterlling! Scalia! Romney has a horse!
Now I know why Rex is flooding the board today.
Now I know why Rex is flooding the board today.
This post was edited on 5/2/14 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 5/2/14 at 12:38 pm to L.A.
at these idiots who don't think Obama is far worse than Nixon. He has used his powers to go after his adversaries via the IRS. 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 and a million times worse than Nixon, who only covered up a political break - in. Posted on 5/2/14 at 2:02 pm to L.A.
Since the title of the thread is about Krauthammer's mention of the Watergate tapes, everyone should keep in mind that 13 months passed between the Watergate break-in and Alexander Butterfield's "slip" about the White House taping system. "Watergate" was a long, drawn out process, extending for a total of 26 months from the break-in to the resignation. And since it really started with the publication of the Pentagon Papers, one could easily add another 12 months on to that.
Posted on 5/2/14 at 2:04 pm to L.A.
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So says Charles Krauthammer.
But Rex says it's a phoney scandal!
Posted on 5/2/14 at 4:37 pm to L.A.
This new email should be a big deal (even if you believe that the entire Benghazi "story" is not) because Congress subpoenaed these kinds of records and the administration ". . . illegally [withheld] subpoenaed material" from Congress. Were it not for a judge ordering the release of this email as a result of a FOIA lawsuit, this email likely would have never seen the light of day. If the State Department cannot convince a federal judge that the email is covered by a FOIA exclusion, there is no (legal) reason the State Department should not have provided that same email to Congress, pursuant to a subpoena obligating them to turn it over and the President and Secretary Kerry's promise to "cooperate in any ways Congress wants."
If this email isn't a "big deal" and there is nothing left to uncover regarding Benghazi, why did the State Department fight the FOIA request? Why did they choose to (illegally) withhold it from Congress? The fact that they fought the release of this email logically tells us there is still more to this story that the administration does not want made public.
If this email isn't a "big deal" and there is nothing left to uncover regarding Benghazi, why did the State Department fight the FOIA request? Why did they choose to (illegally) withhold it from Congress? The fact that they fought the release of this email logically tells us there is still more to this story that the administration does not want made public.
Posted on 5/3/14 at 7:00 am to L.A.
Krauthammer is turning into Alex Jones.
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