On Benghazi probe, GOP's Issa says 'Hillary Clinton's not a target'
Source: NBC News
By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News
A top GOP critic pushed back Sunday on charges that Republican efforts to investigate last year's Benghazi attack are designed to inflict political damage on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"Hillary Clinton's not a target," said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on NBC's Meet the Press. "President Obama is not a target."
Issa, who heads a panel probing the assault on the diplomatic outpost that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, said he will seek depositions from Benghazi review board heads Ambassador Thomas Pickering and retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The interagency process of modifying talking points in the wake of the attack scrubbed the fact that the incident was "a terrorist attack from the get-go," Issa said Sunday.
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babylonsister
(171,102 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)While not being targeted they are the desired collateral damage
underpants
(182,949 posts)He is lying and he knows it. Hillary and the President are both the focus of this as well as trying desperately to change what everyone close to in-the-know has been talking about for the last 6 months - the GOP/RNC is in free fall.
wandy
(3,539 posts)In the six months you have been yammering about this why haven't you.
1. Identified the security deficiency that caused this problem.
2. Put a plan in place to address that deficiency.
3. Begun to execute that plan.
Are you telling me that yammering is all republicans are capable of?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)the GOP party of the psychopath.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)i wasn't watching.
Cal33
(7,018 posts)of guilt when they lie. Guilt feelings cause changes in one's heart rate, breathing
rate, sweating more, etc... Psychopaths and sociopaths, by definition, have no
feelings of guilt. They can pass standard lie-detecting tests with ease. In fact,
some of them (the nuttier ones) actually believe their own lies. Sociopaths can
choose to look any way they like, when they are lying.
applegrove
(118,842 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Politicians like Issa always say the opposite of what they mean so Issa is confirming that Hillary Clinton is the target.
Also, on the very next day after the attack both Obama and Clinton called it an act of terror so the administration was saying from the get-go it was a terrorist attack. Does Issa simply not understand the English language.
On two occasions I can remember where Bush said that the reason he had to go into Iraq is because Saddam wouldn't let the UN inspectors in. The reality is that Bush actually kicked the UN inspectors out so he could start the invasion. Now that is light years more serious than anything Susan Rice said on Sunday talk shows following the Benghazi attack. And Bush's lie was necessary because the authorization to use force was tied to Saddam now letting the UN inspectors in. The war Bush fought was not the war Congress authorized and that is something this country still has not come to grips with.
madamesilverspurs
(15,811 posts)Suffice it to say that "Hillary Clinton isn't a target" is as sincere as Mr. Issa's exclusion of female witnesses from his contraception hearings.
Snake oil spill on aisle six. . .
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The interagency process of modifying talking points in the wake of the attack scrubbed the fact that the incident was "a terrorist attack from the get-go," Issa said Sunday.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/12/18209616-on-benghazi-probe-gops-issa-says-hillary-clintons-not-a-target
The fact is that Obama stated that it was an attack, a terrorist attack on September 12, 2012 IN THE ROSE GARDEN. Obama spoke of the Sept. 11, 2001 and the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in the same speech and placed them in the same light. Issa is either misinformed or intentionally ignoring the facts.
Clinton -- Sept. 12, 2012
"Heavily armed militants" attacked the compound. How clear did Sec. Clinton have to be? Issa should be able to understand that very plain language.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)"Bullshit".
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)This is and has always been about her. It's about damaging any 2016 chances she might have had. They failed to stop Obama from winning a second term, and they're terrified that Hillary could change the electoral map in 2016 if she's the nominee.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)And it will fail, just as it did with Obama. If Hillary chooses to run, she'll win against these kooks.