House Republicans may have already decided to move their #Benghazi conspiracy theorizing to another venue, but Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa can't stop chasing himself down the rabbit hole. Here's his latest attempt to stay relevant:
A still-classified State Department e-mail says that one of the first responses from the White House to the Benghazi attack was to contact YouTube to warn of the “ramifications” of allowing the posting of an anti-Islamic video, according to Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
It turns out the attack was not a spontaneous response to the video, but the email shows that the administration genuinely believed their initial view that it was. Hardly the stuff of scandal—in fact, it's quite the opposite—but it does raise an interesting question:
Did Issa mess up & accidently prove WH point? Or intentionally throwing tantrum to undercut Gowdy since he's not on select comm?
— @evale72
I'd bet on the former. But I wouldn't rule out the latter.
1:00 PM PT: Oh, and no, this isn't news. The White House phone call was reported at the time.