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Congress Opens Probe Into FBI's Handling of Clinton Email Investigation (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Two House committees announced Tuesday that they would conduct a joint probe into the FBI's handling of the Clinton e-mail investigation. The Clinton investigation concluded with no charges being levied against the former secretary of state who was running for president under the Democratic ticket. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said in a joint statement that they are unsatisfied with how the probe into Clinton's private e-mail server concluded. Among other things, the chairmen want to know why the bureau publicly said it was investigating Clinton while keeping silent that it was looking into President Donald Trump's campaign associates and their connections to Russia.
"Our justice system is represented by a blind-folded woman holding a set of scales. Those scales do not tip to the right or the left; they do not recognize wealth, power, or social status," Goodlatte and Gowdy said in a joint statement. "The impartiality of our justice system is the bedrock of our republic, and our fellow citizens must have confidence in its objectivity, independence, and evenhandedness. The law is the most equalizing force in this country. No entity or individual is exempt from oversight."
"Our justice system is represented by a blind-folded woman holding a set of scales. Those scales do not tip to the right or the left; they do not recognize wealth, power, or social status," Goodlatte and Gowdy said in a joint statement. "The impartiality of our justice system is the bedrock of our republic, and our fellow citizens must have confidence in its objectivity, independence, and evenhandedness. The law is the most equalizing force in this country. No entity or individual is exempt from oversight."
Could be that they didnâ(TM)t (and still donâ(TM)t) have any evidence against trump?
Seriously. This was a talking point promulgated by the Democrat political teams this morning.
The probelm is that it may well be a complete screw-up but it's NOT benghazi.
First: It was not a totally predictable thing - Benghazi happened on the anniversary of 9-11 and the security on the ground communicated to the Clinton team that the locals were "casing" the site.
Second: There is not yet evidence that team Trump ignored MANY MONTHS of pleadings from the people lost for better security and more people before the event as happened in Benghazi.
Third: Trump has not send Susan Rice onto all the TV channels to tell the American people that this was caused by a youtube video, as Obama did, while the record now shows that the entire Obama admin KNEW all along it was a terror attack unconnected to any youtube video.
Fourth: Trump's SecState did not meet with the families of the victims and assure them that the maker of the youtube video would be jailed --- and then some dud who made a youtube video was not amazingly nabbed and thrown into jail for a year and even transferred to a jail in another state to keep him locked-up when the jails in his state were declared overcrowded and non-violent offenders were being released.
Fifth: We have no evidence that Trump's team ordered people to stand down and NOT go to the aid of the Americans who were fighting and dying during an HOURS long fight, and certainly no evidence that part of the delay was to order marines to change out of uniforms before going in to help (in an effort to not offend the locals).
Sixth: President Trump did not go on national TV and before the United Nations to blame it on a youtube video...just two months before his re-election vote.
I could go on and on with the differences but the fact that you tried to equate the two highlights either your total ignorance or your extreme political partisan hackery.