{"id":48534,"date":"2015-07-16T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=48534"},"modified":"2015-07-16T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T16:55:08","slug":"benghazi-committee-goes-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/07\/benghazi-committee-goes-off-the-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"Benghazi committee goes off the rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/benghazi-committee-goes-the-rails?cid=sm_fb_maddow\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/465178962.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The existence of the House Select Committee on Benghazi has always been hard to explain, even for those who support it enthusiastically. It\u2019s only now that the panel\u2019s purpose is coming into sharper focus.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The trouble, of course, is that the committee is wholly unnecessary. Over the course of two years, the deadly 2012 terrorist attack in Libya was investigated by the independent State Department Accountability Review Board, the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee, the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Committee on Oversight &amp; Government Reform, and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. None of these probes uncovered evidence to substantiate right-wing conspiracy theories.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And yet, House Republican leaders decided what Congress <em>really<\/em> needs is<em>another<\/em> committee to re-do what the other committees have already done.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The explanation is ugly, but increasingly obvious.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read Full Article: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/benghazi-committee-goes-the-rails\" target=\"_blank\">Benghazi committee goes off the rails<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The existence of the House Select Committee on Benghazi has always been hard to explain, even for those who support it enthusiastically. It\u2019s only now that the panel\u2019s purpose is coming into sharper focus. \u00a0 The trouble, of course, is that the committee is wholly unnecessary. Over the course of two years, the deadly 2012&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1774,19,1628,22],"tags":[1574,1622,354,55,1886],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48537,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48534\/revisions\/48537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}