John Boehner indicated today that he will push to form a special committee to investigate Benghazi two years after the fact.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) intends to form a select committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attacks, he announced Friday. [...]
The move was prompted by a recently-unearthed White House internal email at the time about how to discuss the issue. The email didn’t contain evidence of a cover-up but for Republicans — who insist then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did something wrong — the issue has become a cause célèbre.
Boehner had avoided appointing a special committee for two years, but hyped coverage of email talking points this week has reportedly compelled Boehner to act.
In case you’ve forgotten what this is all about; Republicans contend that the White House ordered the State Department to make false statements about Benghazi to cover something up. What that something is they don’t know.
I suspect most people have forgotten what this is about by now, and who could blame them?
For a time Republicans moved on from the talking points issue and tried to push the idea that the White House ordered the military to “stand down,” but since that theory was debunked by their own investigation conducted by the House Armed Services Committee, they’ve moved back to the talking points issue.