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(118,039 posts)By Philip Bump
April 23
Democrats like to point out that former president Barack Obama was the subject of repeated, ongoing investigations into the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. Whenever President Trump has complained about the investigations he faces, including, at times, suggesting they were somehow without precedent, the numerous probes of Benghazi are offered as a counterexample.
Those investigations, including the Select Committee on Benghazi that was formed in late December, were initiated in part out of concern about how the attacks had unfolded and in an effort to determine how similar events could be prevented. But the Republican members of Congress who launched them also understood the political value of holding Obamas feet to the fire as well as those of Hillary Clinton, Obamas first secretary of state.
Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told Sean Hannity in October 2015, about a year before Clinton would appear as the Democratic nominee on the 2016 presidential ballot. But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/23/investigation-is-new-impeachment/?utm_term=.b25739091896