GOP Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, the Republican chair of the House Armed Services Committee, says he’s satisfied with how the US military and the Obama administration responded to the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, including the US ambassador to Libya.The news also exonerates expected Democratic presidential nominee, and then-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
“I think I’ve pretty well been satisfied that given where the troops were, how quickly the thing all happened and how quickly it dissipated, we probably couldn’t have done more than we did,” McKeon said to reporters today, as quoted by AP.
Will they finally leave it alone? Personally, I hope they keep talking about it for the next two years through both election cycles. Between their obsession with the ACA and the IRS, they are like this...
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But, of course, the real scandal has always been why were they even there when the Brits had pulled out because it was becoming far too dangerous, and since we did stay in an increasingly volatile security environment, why were we so pathetically unprepared for something that had a high probability of happening, especially on a date like 9/11? And then the pathetic series of lies that came afterwards.
Actually, that's a good question and one that only the CIA can answer. My guess is that it had something to with AQAP and the reason why we haven't found out who exactly was responsible is that it is an ongoing operation.
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