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By Igor Volsky
On Sunday, during an appearance on Meet The Press, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) the GOP leader in the senate distanced himself from Republican efforts to portray the Obama administrations response to the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic issue in Benghazi, Libya as a Watergate-level scandal that should result in impeachment. McConnells comments come just days after the White House released 100 pages of emails undermining GOP claims that administration officials doctored the public talking points U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used to discuss the incident on the Sunday morning talk shows.
Youre talking about others who may have said various things about this, let me tell you what I think about it. Its clear there was inadequate security out there and its very clear that it was inconvenient within six weeks of the election, for the administration to in effect announce, that it was a terrorist attack, McConnell said. I think thats worth examining, it is going to be examined.
But asked repeatedly if Republicans should tone down their attacks against the administration, McConnell demurred, saying only that Obama should allow for an investigation. He also couldnt identify specific evidence of an administration cover-up:
DAVID GREGORY (HOST): But you have specific evidence that they made up a tale, or was it based on information they had at the time?
MCCONNELL: Well, the talking points clearly were not accurate. I think getting to the bottom of this is an important investigation.
Watch it:
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UPDATE
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) also admitted that he did not know if the Obama administration engaged in a cover-up of the Benghazi attacks.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/05/19/2033451/mitch-mcconnell-backs-away-from-gop-claims-of-a-benghazi-cover-up/
Doctored Benghazi e-mails rankle Dem lawmaker
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022864633
MADem
(135,425 posts)out the public via ABC news!
dkf
(37,305 posts)Is that criminal?
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)shouldn't be too hard to find (DoctorGate)
malaise
(269,157 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Congress was informed about the IRS investigation
ProSense
(116,464 posts)that it's going to be hard given how this transpired.
Dorn
(523 posts)DOES ANYONE REMEMBER:
Bush admin pressured ex-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge to raise terror warnings pre-election
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)that the GOP party say, period. They are habitual liars. Can't stand David Gregory with his partisan questioning majority of the time. Thats why many progressives regulate to the internet sites or nightly MSNBC and of course Martin B too. Many Americans are really getting tired of all this in your face bullshit lying and the corporate media allowing them to do that. There are very few journalist and Gregory is not one of them.
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)This was on the evening news the other evening. David Schuster was pointing this out on CNN today. He was arguing with a shill from Kudlow report. He was citing Pelley exposing the altered e-mails.
The Republican can of worms has been opened.
(I was really surprised to see David Schuster again.)
BillyRibs
(787 posts)Is that Sulfur I smell?
"I think its one of the worst incidences, frankly, that I can recall in my career." - Dick Cheney.
I so WISH someone would make Cheney EAT his WORDS now! On the M$M no less!