{"id":48713,"date":"2015-10-22T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=48713"},"modified":"2015-10-22T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T17:50:20","slug":"benghazi-biopsy-a-comprehensive-guide-to-one-of-americas-worst-political-outrages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/10\/benghazi-biopsy-a-comprehensive-guide-to-one-of-americas-worst-political-outrages\/","title":{"rendered":"Benghazi Biopsy: A Comprehensive Guide to One of America\u2019s Worst Political Outrages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite the repeated claims by Gowdy that he is objective, the conclusions he will reach are already clear; he publicly stated them before the committee was formed in May 2014. In November 2012, Gowdy released a statement proclaiming as fact that the Obama administration \u201cintentionally misled the American people\u201d about the Benghazi attack. About a year later, in September 2013, he put out another press release in reference to Benghazi, stating, \u201cIf you can\u2019t trust the information your government is giving you, how can you trust your government on any issue?\u201d Eight months afterward, he was appointed to run the Benghazi committee, and in apparent disregard of his previous publicly issued conclusions, announced, \u201cMy goal is to conduct an inquiry that is rooted in fairness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But to fully understand how political this latest Benghazi investigation has become, look at the records. Since March, the committee has issued almost 30 press releases related to Clinton; only five have been put out on every other topic combined. Then there is the committee\u2019s interim report from this past May. The word Obama\u2014who cannot run for commander-in-chief again\u2014is not mentioned. Neither is the word president. Or Ansar al-Sharia, the group suspected of engineering the attack. White House makes only 13 appearances. Imagine an investigation on 9\/11 that did not mention Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or President Bush; that is what has been done with the Benghazi committee\u2019s first public report.<\/span><\/p>\n

It gets worse. The name Ahmed Abu Khatalla, the man arrested as the mastermind of the attack, shows up once. The word terrorist\u00a0appears only 10 times. As for references to Clinton, the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination? Those show up 36 times in just 13 pages, an astonishing number given that the word Benghazi\u00a0appears only 38 times. But the winner for the most mentions is the 39 references to emails from Clinton and the State Department. Clinton and her emails are referenced 49 percent more than the location where the attack took place and 197 percent more than the word terrorist.<\/span><\/p>\n

This rampant politicization of the Benghazi tragedy has delighted Republican voters in an offensive and inappropriate way, given that the issue is about the murder of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and the three other brave Americans killed in Benghazi. At a recent GOP rally I attended, a speaker declared herself to be \u201cBenghazi truth-seeking\u201d in the same sentence in which she referenced gun rights, abortion, illegal immigration and other top conservative political issues. Political lapel buttons for candidates were sold right alongside others referencing Benghazi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Online stores for political merchandise have entire sections committed to Benghazi.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Despite the repeated claims by Gowdy that he is objective, the conclusions he will reach are already clear; he publicly stated them before the committee was formed in May 2014. In November 2012, Gowdy released a statement proclaiming as fact that the Obama administration \u201cintentionally misled the American people\u201d about the Benghazi attack. About a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1774,19,1628,22,18],"tags":[1574,1622,55,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48713"}],"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=48713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48718,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48713\/revisions\/48718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}