HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT

[HairOfTheDog]

The recent events surrounding the House Select Committee on Benghazi are pretty amusing to me.



In attempt to counter recent allegations that his Committee's goal was to damage Clinton politically (rather than to objectively investigate the Benghazi terrorist attacks), Chairman Trey Gowdy told the press that he had proof Clinton had breached security and endangered CIA "human sources" in Libya.

There's only one problem with Gowdy's contention: it turns out the name of that CIA source was not a secret and was not considered "classified" by the CIA at all.

Over the weekend, the CIA undercut Gowdy’s assertion by informing the committee it did not seek any redactions to the email prior to public release of that or 126 other Blumenthal emails sent to Clinton.

Gowdy quickly pushed back on Sunday, countering that the Blumenthal email still contained “sensitive” information that should have been protected. He then publicly released the full text of the Blumenthal email so the the public could decide if Clinton endangered staff in Benghazi. The email had been redacted by the State Department for "privacy" purposes only.

Well, in his haste to save face, Gowdy had released the email before it was fully reviewed and he didn't notice that the State Department had failed to redact the name of the CIA informant from the subject line.

So, Gowdy had actually published the name of the very informant he accused Clinton of endangering, for all to see. He then quickly removed his post and blamed the State Department.

I think Clinton's testimony before the Committee on Thursday will be a very interesting watch/listen.

Refs:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/2...1O20151020
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/house-ben...01550.html