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So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - GMDino - 01-06-2017
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/05/so-much-for-benghazi-congressional-republicans-hold-embassy-security-funding-hostage-over-israels-embassy/
Quote:Three Republican Senators, including two former presidential candidates, have introduced legislation that will cut security, construction, and maintenance funds for American embassies throughout the world unless President-elect Donald Trump moves the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
The bill has been introduced by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, as The Intercept reported on Wednesday.
Although Congress passed a law in 1995 requiring the American embassy to be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the three presidents who could have been required to implement that law (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama) invoked a waiver that would allow them to postpone doing so on national security grounds. Because moving the embassy to Jerusalem is widely believed to make a two-state solution impossible, such a move has been viewed as dangerous to peace and stability in the region.
Both Rubio and Cruz tried to use the fact that the State Department under Hillary Clinton failed to respond to requests for adequate security at the American embassy in Benghazi against her.
“What we do know leads to the inescapable impression that before, during, and after the Benghazi attacks, there was confusion and paralysis at the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House,” Cruz wrote for National Review in 2013.
“The report also brings to light the extraordinary failure on the part of officials at the State Department, including Secretary Hillary Clinton, to grasp the security risks in Libya and Benghazi in particular, and take the appropriate action to protect Americans stationed in that country,” Rubio wrote for Breitbart in June.
RE: So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - oncemoreuntothejimbreech - 01-07-2017
The Benghazi attack didn't involve an embassy. There was a temporary compound and a CIA base doing what the CIA does.
RE: So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - GMDino - 01-07-2017
(01-07-2017, 05:59 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: The Benghazi attack didn't involve an embassy. There was a temporary compound and a CIA base doing what the CIA does.
What?!?!?
But all those hearings! And the "What difference does it make?" memes!!!!
RE: So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - jason - 01-07-2017
Lock them up! Lock them up!
RE: So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - NATI BENGALS - 01-07-2017
Well you know what they say. You can shit in one hand, and blame Hillary clinton for it.
RE: So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - BigPapaKain - 01-07-2017
The hypocrisy of the GOP would be funny if it weren't so inherently terrifying.
RE: So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - Belsnickel - 01-07-2017
(01-07-2017, 06:28 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: The hypocrisy of the GOP would be funny if it weren't so inherently terrifying.
Especially so when you look at the new House rules adopted for the 115th.
RE: So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - bfine32 - 01-07-2017
Not sure what the OP has to do with Benghazi; but anyone that blames Hillary Clinton for those deaths is clueless.
Now her actions afterword are a different matter.
RE: So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - Rotobeast - 01-07-2017
(01-07-2017, 08:48 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Not sure what the OP has to do with Benghazi; but anyone that blames Hillary Clinton for those deaths is clueless.Who was in charge of the weapons shipment that was in port, that day ?
Now her actions afterword are a different matter.
RE: So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - Nebuchadnezzar - 01-07-2017
No need for it any more.
Hillary lost
Obama will be gone soon
There's no need to fund anything to hamper the opposing side.
Plus, they can save the money for 2020 and whoever the Democrats put up to run for president and use it to hamper them.
RE: So much for Benghazi: Congressional Republicans hold embassy security funding hostage - Rotobeast - 01-07-2017
(01-07-2017, 10:55 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: No need for it any more.
Hillary lost
Obama will be gone soon
There's no need to fund anything to hamper the opposing side.
Plus, they can save the money for 2020 and whoever the Democrats put up to run for president and use it to hamper them.
Dems and Repubs better both save their money for 2024.
My money says Rand Paul jumps ship, during this shit-show, and puts the Libertarian Party into the forefront.
He's the only one fighting in our best interest and I pray that he jumps after elevating himself about the turds.