A CBS News report surfaced yesterday suggesting House Republicans may have altered Benghazi emails to advance a political agenda. Leaked versions of Benghazi emails released last week by House Republicans do not match the same documents made public by the White House. Two noteworthy examples:
White House version: "We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation."
GOP version: "We must make sure that the talking points reflect all agency equities, including those of the State Department, and we don't want to undermine the FBI investigation."
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White House version: "The penultimate point could be abused by members to beat the State Department for not paying attention to Agency warnings."
GOP version: “The penultimate point is a paragraph talking about all the previous warnings provided by the Agency (CIA) about al-Qaeda's presence and activities of al-Qaeda."Apparently, the White House documents were too generic and ambiguous to satisfy GOP
Who authorized these changes? What did Representative Darryll Issa (R-Ca), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, know and when did he know it? Can we trust the findings of the House Oversight Committee? How does a partisan hatchet job serve the public interest?
The thing NOT to love about PARTISAN politics is that it will forever be what it is.
ReplyDeleteAs it was on the beginning so it shall be ...
Funny that when the Republicans (falsely) accuse Obama of tampering with public statements, it's an impeachable offense, but when the Republicans forge documents to destroy the functioning of the government, it's just fine.
ReplyDeleteI notice that the New York Times doesn't seem to have the slightest interest in reporting this treachery, and I expect that the rest of our corporate press will also do everything they can to ignore it.
It's true, even in the earliest years our politics were dishonest and vicious. And yes, the corporate press. . . their only interest is in creating controversy, hysteria, panic and anything else that makes people leave the damned TV on all day so they can charge their sponsors more.
ReplyDeleteFox News, the most expensive whore house in town, but the rest aren't all that much better.
At least one enterprising analyst from CBS had the initiative to perform a textual comparison, and one editor thought it worthy of coverage. Usually, when one news organizations breaks a story, others follow suit. Why not this time?
ReplyDeleteOne would think a demonstrative case of malicious mendacity would get more press attention – and meet some requisite threshold of drama and sensationalism. This time, I can only attribute the silence to incompetence on the part of Democratic operatives in Washington. Here is a golden opportunity for progressives to counter and reframe a message – and a stunning reversal of fortune for the GOP. Yet, our side fails every time!
Failure to mitigate pollutants in storm water runoff is a leading cause of red tide.
Isn't there a train pulling out of DC soon? Filled with Congress Critters, Operatives, and the Power Brokers headed for retirement.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's right they have all the cards. Looks like we're screwed for awhile longer. And I DON'T mean in reference to Obama.
" Here is a golden opportunity for progressives to counter and reframe a message – and a stunning reversal of fortune for the GOP. Yet, our side fails every time! "
ReplyDeleteMaybe our message is a constellation of little obsessions that only annoy the opposition and can be swatted like mosquitoes. I think we need to concentrate on their core message and the corruption and 'malicious mendacity' that promotes it; that promotes feudalism and oppression all dressed up as some sort of Utopia while it lies and lies and lies.
It's not that I'm against human rights and the various subsets thereof. I'm not an opponent of better health care, better social safety net, humane treatment of animals, clean water or any of those things, but we're fragmented, divided, diffuse and easy to dismiss.
We don't have that Führerprinzip, that love of leadership that they do. There's no huge, wealthy and unified propaganda organization behind us and we're willing to withdraw support for a president who doesn't stress our particular concerns, be it birth control, minimum wage, gay marriage or legalized marijuana. It's easy for them to divide and conquer because we've done the dividing for them.
I actually think the gop is losing relevancy, the troops are divided, their message often lacks sound reasoning, and sooner or later the party will have to reform or IMO will go the way of the Whigs of old.
DeleteI'm a fiscal conservative and believe in as limited a government as is SENSIBLE with maximum liberties for the people as possible while maintaining civil order\. The gop has gone insane in too many ways.
That is not to say I find the democratic party desirable in any significant way. But at least Obama, even given my many disagreements with his philosophy at least he has a clue and is trying to do the right thing. Didn't think that 5 years ago but a lot has happened.
And, the rEpublicans just keep shooting themselves in the foot. Something about the definition of insanity.
I really hope you're right, RN. Because the young voters, when they bother to vote, don't seem to care about the same things the nasty old men who support today's GOP are all passionate about, I almost dare to hope. Almost.
ReplyDeleteGood Captain and RN,
ReplyDeleteA moment of mutual agreement. Let's face it. We're aging - and perhaps it is time for the New Millennia generation to take over ... with more women holding public office. Time for "the male, the pale, and the stale" to step aside and make room for new blood.