Will Hillary Clinton Be Pilloried by the Benghazi Committee?....Maureen Dowd

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/opinion/sunday/will-hillary-clinton-be-pilloried-by-the-benghazi-committee.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

Will Hillary Clinton Be Pilloried by the Benghazi Committee?

OCT. 17, 2015


Maureen Dowd

WASHINGTON — HILLARY CLINTON is wrong about the Benghazi committee.

It’s not the longest-running special congressional investigation ever, as the Hillary campaign tweeted. According to PolitiFact, other congressional probes have lasted a lot longer than 17 months, including hearings on the conduct of the Civil War (40 months) and the assassinations of J.F.K. and Martin Luther King Jr. (30 months).

But Hillary Clinton is also right about the Benghazi committee.

It has nullified itself.

The Republicans created the committee in 2014, but it soon became clear it was going to stretch into 2016 as a way to torment Hillary during campaign season and keep her back on her heels after the Republicans had picked a candidate.

Then Kevin McCarthy went on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, spilling and crowing about how the Republicans had put together the Benghazi committee to tar the Democratic front-runner as “untrustable” and drag down her numbers.

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[EC]

To reiterate:

When the headline is a question, the answer is almost invariably "No."

[PzLdr]

One can only hope!

[Oceander]

Here comes the attempt to mold the narrative to covert political ends, and away from the truth.  Being pilloried bears the connotations of someone innocent being set upon by the corrupt and evil.