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Juan Cole pretty much nails it in his post, Top Ten Republican Myths on Libya: Reprint edn.; since they don’t change their talking points, why should we change our blog entries?
I’ve been avoiding this, then I heard an All Things Considered interview with Thomas Pickering. Ambassador Pickering is the retired career diplomat who, together with the retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen, conducted the investigation of Benghazi. He is not a happy camper.
Mr Pickering wants the world to know that he attempted to testify at the current House hearings, but was turned down. In the interview he addresses all of the ‘controversies’ that have come out of the hearing, and rather destroys them. Understand, he is a career diplomat, not a political appointee, and people lost their jobs as a result of his report. The Republicans don’t want him to appear because he would ‘kick their butts’. but in very tempered, diplomatic language.
I still want to know when Chairweasel Issa is going to testify about the decision he and other Republican members of the committee made to cut funding for embassy security prior to the attack. It is impossible to improve security if you don’t have the money to pay for it.
May 11, 2013 7 Comments
