She was on TV last night with her husband Joe diGenova; he was speaking in a very explicit and demonstrative manner. I think he has one of those big cigar lighters and...
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HH: It’s Iran-Contra.
SH: …about what happened in Benghazi.
HH: I know that. You know, Iran-Contra hearings in the House and Senate were the model for this.[/blockquote]
Hugh Hewitt with Fox News and Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes On Boston And Benghazi..
HH: Now I understand Speaker Boehner loves regular order, even though we’re throwing it out the window when it comes to tax reform. He does say he wants regular order. It is not regular order to do a special committee of the House. We’re not going to get a commission or a select committee of the Congress, because Reid and/or the President will say no.
SH: Right.
HH: But the Speaker can say okay, I’m going to pick my best prosecutor, I’m going to pick my smartest members. I can put McCaul of Homeland Security, and I can put Issa of Oversight, and I can go grab Rogers of Intel, and they can all be on it or maybe not. I don’t know, but he can do that, and I think, Steve Hayes, and tell me how it would play out, that that would focus the country in a way that that report you just referenced got very little attention because of the week in which it was issued.
SH: It did, and I’m not, look, I think that’s probably a good idea, and that structure along the lines of what you’re talking about, it’s the kind of thing it can’t do damage. It’s not, there’s nothing wrong with doing that. At the very least, it would, as you say, I think, maybe elucidate some of the issues that still remain sort of in the shadows covered by darkness. I don’t have a ton of confidence, I must say, that even in the context of that kind of a deeper investigation, the rest of the news media would pay much attention to it. They just, they have, we’ve now gotten to the point where if you have a conversation with even a fair-minded reporter from a mainstream media outlet about national security, sort of the politics of national security, and you mention Benghazi, you will get eye rolls like oh, really, you people are still focused on Benghazi? The assumption was all along that Benghazi was just an election issue, and that those of us who took it seriously and spent a lot of time reporting on it and investigating what had happened there only wanted to do so because of the potential for political damage to President Obama. That was never the case. We were interested in the issue. And I think the vast majority of people on Capitol Hill, members of Congress who were interested in the issue, were interested in it for that reason. And they seem surprised and annoyed that we are still interested, here now six months later, in actually understanding what happened on the ground in Benghazi, because it matters.
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