According to a PPP survey released Monday, 39 percent of people who think Benghazi is the biggest scandal ever don't even know that it is in Libya, including 6 percent who think it's in Cuba.
- We began Monday reeling from the news that the Benghazi talking points had been edited. Well, maybe not reeling, but Republicans assumed that we were, because they had finally gotten a reporter to print their fantasy of what the Benghazi talking points emails had been. We also learned that John Boehner was using Benghazi for political purposes, that Republicans were using it for fundraising, and that 39 percent of people who think Benghazi was the biggest scandal since ever don't even know it was in Libya (6 percent think it's in Cuba).
- On Tuesday, Republicans launched their first anti-Hillary ad of 2016 campaign, focused on Benghazi. And we thus learned the definitive timeline of the whole mess. We also got the first glimpse of the real Benghazi talking point emails.
- On Wednesday, the White House released the real Benghazi talking point emails, showing that Jon Karl had merely acted as a stenographer for someone feeding him a false account of the messages.
- On Thursday, Fox News called out Obama's transparency with the email release for what it really was: a diabolical ploy to confuse Americans. Meanwhile, former Fox reporter Major Garrett, now with CBS and therefore legally allowed to speak his mind, reported what we all suspected but didn't explicitly know: Republicans were behind the false emails. Also on Thursday, the independent co-chairman of the State Department's Benghazi review blew the whistle on Darrell Issa for refusing to let them testify in public before his committee. Issa responded on Friday by issuing a subpoena to "participate in a voluntary transcribed interview prior to testifying publicly." What's he afraid of?
- Also on Friday, Reince Priebus counseled Republicans to take their time before impeaching Obama: "Don't call for impeachment until you have evidence," he said. Not unless, but until. Because Reince knows the evidence is there. Somewhere, Anywhere. Just ask Bob Woodward, who on Friday said Benghazi was like Watergate—a perfectly stupid way to wrap up a perfectly stupid week in Washington.