[Breitbart] Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL), a leader in the conservative movement and retired Lt. Colonel of the United States Army,
and man who can tell the difference between motion and progress
told Breitbart News that he thinks House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) might be trying to help the Obama administration cover up the Benghazi scandal.
What say Brennan, Panetta, Valjar, and Rice about Benghazi? Anyone talking to them? If not, why not ?
"There is widespread support for a select committee to get to the bottom of disturbing questions surrounding the attack, as H.Res. 36 has 178 cosponsors," West said in an email to Breitbart News. "Yet Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor refuse to bring it to the House floor for a vote. You have to wonder, is there something they know that they prefer not come to light?"
Ridiculous I tell you. Absolutely ridiculous. Who can doubt the US State Department's Accountability and Review Board's findings? Just for the sake of argument however, what is Boehner's reason for not unleashing the hounds...... ?
No, it's not sinister, and the good Colonel West is mistaken. Let me explain.
Back when Richard Nixon was first getting into trouble with Watergate, a group of young Democrats in the House wanted to put forward an impeachment bill. But the old bulls, including Speaker Carl Albert and Tip O'Neill, stopped them cold. They understood that it was too early -- time was needed to develop exactly what had happened, and also to let the American people see just what Nixon had done. If an impeachment bill had been filed in early 1973, for example, most of the Democrats would have had to vote 'no' or else face problems at home. Once one voted 'no' once, how could you have another vote?
The issue needed to ripen.
Benghazi is in the same situation. It's taking longer to ripen because Obama has been doing much more, and much more effectively, to stop the House investigation. The media is on his side in a way they were against Nixon in '73. But putting together a "Select Committee" now is like voting for an impeachment: do it too early and the vote will go against you, and then you're stuck with everyone and the MSM saying that "it's all political." And in a sense, they'd be right.
This needs to ripen more. We need more facts and more investigation. Keep the politics away from it a while longer and get more facts into the open. Then and only then have a Select Committee or (if the Pubs do win the Senate) a Joint Select Committee with full subpoena and immunity powers. |
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