New Benghazi Investigation Spooks GOP Leaders

[DonViejo]

Eli Lake

It’s not just the Democrats who are opposed to a new select committee looking into the Benghazi attacks. Many top Republicans are uneasy, too.

Last Wednesday, as the House was preparing for its new investigation into the Benghazi attacks, House intelligence committee chairman Mike Rogers gathered Republican members of his committee for a meeting. While the main purpose of the meeting was to discuss surveillance reforms the committee was about to pass, Rogers also warned his colleagues about the upcoming select committee to investigate Benghazi.

“He was saying this could be a rabbit hole,” one House member told The Daily Beast. “He was warning us that we should not let this investigation get into conspiracy theories.”

Contrary to the caricature of Republicans, as singularly obsessed for political reasons with Benghazi, the reality is quite different. There is deep unease within the Republican leadership that the select committee, which has yet to announce a schedule of hearings, could backfire, and badly. Investigate and find nothing new, and the committee looks like a bunch of tin-hatted obsessives. Investigate and uncover previously-hidden secrets, and it makes all of the other Republican led panels that dug into Benghazi seem like Keystone Kops.

Three Republican sources tell The Daily Beast that the chairmen of the House Intelligence, Armed Services, and Government Reform committees—Reps. Rogers, Buck McKeon, and Darrell Issa, respectively—all opposed the formation of a select committee on Benghazi. All three men have led their own investigations into the matter.

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[yellowcanine]

1. Heh, heh, heh. Is it wrong that I am experiencing schadenfreude big time?

Phrases which come to mind.

Just Desserts.
Chickens come home to roost.
Hoisted on their own petard.
Up Shit Creek, no paddle.
Rock, meet hard place.

[underpants]

2. Sorry, you at the will of your PR Dept now

Fox News

Do as you are told or the PR Dept. will turn on YOU!!!

[Sunlei]

3. Our President knows they are a sham group. "Orange Really Is The New Black" BHO :P

"These days, House Republicans give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black."

President Obama, May 2014

[Justice]

4. Republican members of select committee are all from safe districts

I think there is worry about it by republicans. Only people who were appointed won by at least 56% in last election - some won more than 60% of vote.

Not much chance of losing your seat.