Discussion: Clinton Responds To Benghazi Report: 'It's Time To Move On'

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Waco - $17 million

OKC - $9 milllion

Benghazi - $7 million

Malheur Wildlife Refuge - How much was THAT one?

I love how these guys are all worried about the deficit and wasting money.

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It wasn’t even an embassy, it was a consulate. While most or all of our embassies have marine security guards, consulates don’t. Back in the Jesse Helms days, the Repubs thought the State Department was a useless money-suck and they cut budgets for all kinds of essential things, including security.
Meanwhile, there are more people in military marching bands then there are in the entire State Department.

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Agreed. I try to catch everything I can and appreciate a heads-up on anything I may have missed. But I’d like to see Warren or Obama call out this bullshit and point to these articles. Haven’t seen that yet, or maybe just missed it.

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Thanks les!

Great article. But, I especially love the looks on these gop/bags faces…priceless!

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Well said, soon to be Madam President.

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I paid a visit to the Fox News site this afternoon to see how this story was going over there. The consensus in the comments is that Hillary’s guilty of everything imaginable, she’s responsible for the deaths of four people, and that the entire Benghazi committee is in the tank for her, because Obama, or something.

We’ve long ago transcended “difference of opinion.” The Right is genuinely insane.

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And to undo those redistricting lines, we need to take back the state legislatures for the 2020 census.

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Oh, they’ll move on, actually back, to whitewater or Vince Foster or her suit color.
These nimrods are not going to talk policy, because they have none, and they aren’t going to debate substance, because it has substance, they will only go where the crazed lead them.

They are the boys that cried Ben Ghazi now and this failure will stain them for life. McCarty has already had a taste and now Gowdy will get some. Then the ‘trickle down’ will start.
Thanks Ronnie, your concept finally has some use.

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Primarily though they are out to prove that government doesn’t work. They can brag of some achievements in that regard.

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People have already made up their minds on these issues: Benghazi and the e-mails. It’s only more campaign noise.

Preaching to the converted.

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To say this was a CONSULATE as opposed to where our diplomat was staying at the time of the incident to get closer to the action is to mislead. A consulate has a defined set of diplomatic activities including processing visa applications and helping US visitors (a rare find in this place). If the Ambassador thought it better to be closer to the action that can be commended. He was an “activist”. Did not wait for the nobs and snobs to come to him. Wanted to see for himself. But he was in a place that could not be easily defended, and without adequate security. i simply can’t see how someone at State in Washington is to blame. True, he did not get help in time. And the CIA and FBI types aren’t great at rushing to the help of State in foreign lands. Check out the days before the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania a few years back. Same issue - help too far away. This committee is about bogus and operation. What a waste!