The Mueller report has been submitted, the redacted version has been made available to the public, and Robert Mueller has testified before the Judiciary and Intelligence committees answering questions whose answers were not in the report, debunking the “no collusion/completely exonerated” mantra.
So the GOP has pronounced that it is time to hang it all up and move on. Just as it is known to do when it is in the position to investigate.
The Republican House Oversight Committee questioned Clinton following the Benghazi attack, and released a report on the Accountability Review Board appointed by Clinton to review the attack. It criticized the conclusions in the board’s final report.
This was followed by a December report from the Senate Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs detailing the “high risk” of a terrorist attack at the U.S. facilities in Libya. The report criticized the State Department for not addressing the security concerns leading up to the attack and administration officials for being inconsistent in stating publicly that the deaths in Benghazi were the result of a terrorist attack.
This was followed by a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in January 2014 calling the Benghazi attacks “preventable.” Although it found the administration failed to adequately increase security in the weeks leading up to the attack, it ignored that some of the people reaching this conclusion had previously voted to cut security funding.
On January 23, 2013 Clinton testified for close to six hours before this House committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The House Committee criticized Clinton and other high-ranking officials saying they had been “provided extensive warning of the deteriorating security environment in eastern Libya”, and criticized the State Department’s Accountability Review Board for failing to comment on the actions of the department’s highest ranking officials, including Hillary Clinton.
The House Committee on the Judiciary then investigated the FBI investigation that followed the attack at Benghazi charging it with not investigating the scene until three weeks after the attack and spending less than one day collecting evidence in Benghazi, and Clinton for reducing security at the Benghazi consulate in spite of the testimony that she “had no knowledge” of security requests.
The Republican led Armed Services Committee began its investigation immediately after the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya and reported that the Obama administration failed to address security threats in Benghazi,
The House Intelligence Committee exonerated the Obama administration of wrongdoing in its response to the attack. The committee had found evidence of contradicting intelligence among government officials and concluded officials did not intentionally mislead the public in the days following the attack.
Then the Republican-led House created the House Select Committee on Benghazi because a conservative watchdog group had discovered new State Department emails about the attacks, and Clinton faced more scrutiny over Benghazi after it was discovered she used a private email server while serving as Secretary of State. This resulted in a yearlong investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private emails for official business while she was Secretary of State, an investigation that concluded with the FBI not recommending prosecution to the Justice Department because,
“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
It as also concluded that Clinton’s actions were largely consistent with previous secretaries of state.
The end result was that in spite of their negative conclusions none of the committees, the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, found what they were hoping to find, but the GOP kept trying.
The FBI probe cost the taxpayers $20 million.
The cost of the repeated Benghazi investigations which, when they found nothing with which to charge Hillary, produced follow up investigations to try again, was close to $30 million.
And all this, as many Republicans had admitted the investigations were an attempt to wound Hillary Clinton’s feared 2016 Presidential run.
Concerning the Benghazi hearing, then House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who was hoping to be the Speaker of the House after the 2016 elections asserted,
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In contrast, while the two year, single Mueller investigation cost between $32 million and $35 million it took in over $20 million in forfeitures, settlements, and fines, and once Paul Manafort forfeits the real estate and cash holdings he agreed to do as part of his plea deal that figure could increase by as high as $42 million to $46 million once all of the properties are sold.
Whereas the Benghazi investigations that continually found Clinton not guilty of any new and repeated charges cost money, Mueller’s ONE report made money.
Unlike all the Benghazi and email investigations where Hillary Clinton was not found guilty of anything, the Mueller report akso resulted in charges against 37 people and got guilty pleas from Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Now for the House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, who supported all the Benghazi hearings to weaken Clinton at great expense but no return, one investigation is enough and the misrepresentation of the findings sufficient, has decided,
“As we officially close this chapter, it is important for us to learn from the moment. As we look back, Democrat leaders acted irresponsibly and threw caution to the wind to damage and distract from the work the Trump administration is doing on behalf of our fellow citizens. While this conclusion is an embarrassment to those Democrats, it is more discouraging to think of the opportunity costs to our country.
This should be a lesson to my Democrat colleagues that chasing imagined scandals and following a partisan investigatory agenda will not result in any meaningful change for the country. In fact, it will do the opposite. I understand that Democrats today are struggling with their own deep divisions and that it might be easier to attack President Trump than work together for a common cause. But after months upon months of manufactured outrage on this issue, it is time we move on for the good of the nation and focus on the job we were sent to Washington to do: work to address the real challenges facing our country.”
Bill and Hillary were found innocent of any fraud in the White Water investigation, so the GOP moved on to Travelgate where seven people were fired from the White House travel office in 1993, but, even with two independent counsels, no charges were ever filed against the Clintons. So it was on to the death of White House lawyer Vince Foster with the hope that the Clintons would be found implicated in his murder, but the multiple investigations found that he really had committed suicide after a long struggle with depression and fear of professional repercussions for seeking treatment. Looking for something the Filegate investigation involving Former White House workers having lots of FBI files on Republican Congressmen began, but an independent counsel said the Clintons didn’t have anything to do with it.
“Chasing imagined scandals and following a partisan investigatory agenda will not result in any meaningful change for the country” but for the GOP it does not matter as long as their side is doing it, I guess.