I can't motivate myself to give even one tiny damn about the House Republicans' new conspiracy-riddled report on
Benghazi!!!, so I'm going to outsource this one. Let's go with, let's see, I guess
Media Matters:
Notably, the document accuses the Obama administration of "deliberately misleading" by asserting that an anti-Islam YouTube video had triggered the attack, echoing claims by Fox News. But The New York Times has reported that the attackers themselves said they were motivated by the video.
Likewise, the report pins the blame for the Benghazi facility's level of security directly on Clinton. A nonpartisan review conducted by a State Department Accountability Review Board, led by Ambassador Tom Pickering and Admiral Mike Mullen, made no such finding with regard to Clinton, attributing the security conditions to lower level bureaucrats.
Or we could go with independent panel member Richard Shinnick,
on the "Hillary saw this!" claims:
"Every single cable going out is signed 'Clinton,' it is the normal procedure," Shinnick said. "Millions of cables come into the operation center every year, not thousands, millions. And they are all addressed Hillary Clinton."
"So you can make a story that Hillary saw a cable and didn't act on it or sent a cable out; it's all bullshit, it's all total bullshit," Shinnick stressed. "I can't be any clearer than that. I read those stories and fortunately or unfortunately the people on the ARB understood that. If you don't want to believe that, then go chase a story."
Yeah, but these are Republican congressmen we're talking about. Expecting them to know anything about how government works is like asking cows to build a rocketship.
Every time I think the House could not get more ridiculous in their drummed-up conspiracy theories against Democrats, I remember Whitewater and it all makes sense again. House Republicans exist to be ridiculous. It's an electoral requirement. This is the same crowd that is convinced there's a solar energy funding conspiracy in the administration and that the powerful world science Illuminati invented climate change theories because they were just so damn jealous at how handsome all those oil company executives are.
Alas, even a report based in large part on Fox News theories of what went on itself manages to foul up a good batch of supposed Fox News scoops. Whatever, it's not like Fox News itself actually believed any of that crap.
Am I done here? I am? Great. Tell you what, wake me up when House Republicans decide to appoint Alex Jones as their Extra Special Prosecutor in their combined Benghazi-Soylndra-Agenda21 investigation. He'll figure out a way to tie it all back to the lizard people, and that will at least make all these stupid theories entertaining again.