Even George Will knows that Benghazi!™ is BS
by digby
Fox News personality George Will responds to Charles Krauthamer’s hysterical contention that the stale Benghazi!™ emails released earlier this week was worse than the Watergate tapes:
“It’s rather less than the Watergate tapes which showed a president at the heart of a crime wave suborning perjury and raising hush money and all the rest…
I don’t know why any Democrat would want to participate in this. By boycotting it this obviously becomes a redundant and obviously partisan Republican exercise. It’s only a matter of time before Democrats raise the following question: would there be a select committee if it didn'[t want to have to power to subpoena the former Secretary of State,obviously for reasons pertaining to presidential politics.”
Yeah. There’s only one reason they’ve created a new scandal brand around this. And I think we know what that is. Anyone who doesn’t understand this doesn’t understand the basic workings of the GOP scandal machinery.
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