Nancy Pelosi says Benghazi for GOP is ‘obsession’ to ‘distract from other issues’
Congressional Republicans are using their Benghazi investigation as political “subterfuge” to distract from other issues, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Saturday.
Pelosi said it’s important to find out what happened in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But the right is taking it too far, she said in an interview with MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry.
“The obsession that some of my Republican colleagues have in the House doesn’t look like it’s on the path to really finding a solution, but just to keeping an issue alive,” she said.
“We certainly have to give the full attention Benghazi deserves, but we cannot let it soak up all of the congressional attention,” Pelosi said. “What would be the purpose of that?”
Noting that the issue is a talking point on conservative media, Pelosi continued.
“We want to find out what did happen, but … then it becomes an issue that is subterfuge: ‘Let’s talk about Benghazi forever, so we don’t have to talk about what the American people want us to talk about,'” Pelosi said. “They want us to talk about jobs, they want us to talk about economic security, economic growth.”
This comes after more details have revealed how the State Department edited the CIA reports to remove all of the references to terrorism – more here.
Some Republicans have also questioned whether the administration refused requests for additional security in Benghazi.
“Much of what is being said out there by some of my colleagues in Congress is simply not true … it simply isn’t true,” Pelosi said. “So we have to make sure the public record is clear.”
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NOW, AS I HAVE TYPED BEFORE COMING TO Global Dispatch, I BELIEVE CAUCASIAN VOTERS WANTED THE KENYAN TO GET HIS EIGHT YEARS AS A WAY TO SILENCE Afrocentric blacks – LIKE, Reverends Jesse Jackson, Sr. AND Al Sharpton – WHO CONSTANTLY CLAIM CAUCASIANS WILL FOREVER BE RACISTS AND DO NOT WANT NEGROES TO SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY ADVANCE.
MY POINT IS, NEITHER PARTY HAS DONE ANYTHING WORTHWHILE SINCE THE KENYAN IS IN OFFICE. IS THAT CAUCASIAN BIAS? ….. YES; BUT, SINCE THIS NATION WAS FOUNDED ON CAUCASIAN-MALE IDEALS, THIS BIAS IS ACCEPTABLE. ALTHOUGH CAUCASIANS STILL HOLD TOTAL POWER IN THIS NATION, THE EXECUTIVE IS A POWERFUL, VISIBLE MORALE-BOOSTER. SO, IF A CAUCASIAN MALE [OR, EVEN, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton] COMES IN 2017 AMERICANS WILL SEE THEIR GOVERNMENT “MOVING,” AGAIN.
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN HORTON