what you missed re the GOP's anti-HRC campaign, the Benghazi "GET HILLARY" committee

[Bill USA]

Republicans threaten State Dept. funding until Clinton, Benghazi docs are provided
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/state-department-funding-gop-withhold-benghazi-hillary-clinton-118542

House Republicans are threatening to withhold a large chunk of State Department funding until officials speed up their responses to document requests, including House demands for documents pertaining to the Benghazi investigation and a probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

The House Appropriations Committee’s proposed 2016 spending bill for the State Department and foreign operations withholds 15 percent of the department’s “operational funds until requirements related to proper management of Freedom of Information Act and electronic communications are met,” according to a panel release.

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The State Department on Tuesday said the funding cut would only further cripple its efforts.

“A 15 percent reduction in the State Department operations budget would be counterproductive and only further constrain resources to meet the exponential increases in requests over recent years,” said spokesman Alec Gerlach, adding that State has achieved “a near 14 percent reduction in our appeals backlog last year.”

Since 2008, State has seen its FOIA caseload increase by more than 300 percent, jumping from fewer than 6,000 that year to about 20,000 last year.
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The Ranking Democratic Member of the House Appropriations committee, Rep. Nita Lowey (N.Y.), attempted to add an amendment to a spending bill that would have undone a Republican provision to withhold 15% of the State Department funding... that Republicans put in the bill because the Dept. of State was not responding fast enough to demands for documents by the Benghazi Select Committee (aka: the "Hillary's not Trustworthy" committee) harassing Hillary Clinton. The Republicans want to withhold 15% of State's funding or about $700,000,000.


Panel defeats effort (by Dems) to reinstate (Dept of) State funding tied to Benghazi probe
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/244668-house-panel-defeats-effort-to-reinstate-state-funding-over-benghazi-probe

The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday struck down an amendment to a spending bill that would have undone a Republican provision to withhold some State Department funding over the terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

The measure, offered by Rep. Nita Lowey (N.Y.), the panel’s top Democrat, would have eliminated a directive in the committee’s state and foreign operations bill for fiscal 2016 to reserve “15 percent of State Department’s operational funds" until the agency provides more documents related to the 2012 attacks that killed four Americans.
Speaking in favor of her amendment, Lowey said the provision is “merely latest effort in [a] Republican crusade to profit politically from the tragedy of Benghazi.”

Instead, the GOP should cut the “unlimited funding” to the House Select Committee on Benghazi, “which has existed for over a year and produced zero substantive information,” said Lowey, who also serves as the ranking member on the state and foreign operations subcommittee.

She said that instead of sparking reforms to diplomatic security, the investigation has become a “scapegoating political exercise to influential the 2016 presidential election,” alluding to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, who was the top U.S. diplomat at the time of the assault.

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Lowey’s amendment was defeated 30-20 in a roll-call vote.
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The GOP certainly win the Scumbag award for mastery of McCarthyist tactics.

But, it is working for them. Look how many people who, when asked by pollsters: "Do you think Hillary is trustworthy" give the proper conditioned response. The Republicans have shown if you keep asking "When did you stop beating your wife?" type questions those who don't do their own thinking, who are susceptible to suggestion will make the "proper" inference and "think": "Well, I guess if they ask those questions over and over there must be some (good) reason for asking them." --- It never occurs to the naive, properly conditioned person that the reason is political gain in an election year.

B.F. Skinner would be proud.

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[mgmaggiemg]

1. as if there were

any doubt there's a witch hunt

[Bill USA]

2. Bernie supporters chant the attacks of Hillary as written by the GOP. They certainly sound like

believe all that shit. ON the other hand, maybe they just want people to believe they believe it.

[mgmaggiemg]

3. probably both ;)

[Bill USA]

4. good point.

[whatchamacallit]

5. Well this puts to rest the notion that republicans will beat up Bernie worse

Dead republicans will crawl out of their graves to stop her.

[Bleacher Creature]

6. The only argument you'll get from me is calling it a "GOP" campaign.

Far too many DUers have joined in the effort.

[Stallion]

7. Yeah but Half of Bernie's Supporters Aren't Democrats

nm