For today’s purposes, the Benghazi story, and the extent to which it constitutes a scandal, boil down to the subjective question of how unseemly it is for a cabinet department to defensively edit public communications in the wake of a national tragedy. Maybe you can stretch that out to implicate President Obama for wanting to downplay the implications of that tragedy ahead of the election.
But to spin that into a fatal liability for either Obama or Hillary Clinton requires pretending that the territoriality and defensiveness of government agencies is unprecedented, which doesn’t really pass the laugh test. So why’s the GOP training all of its artillery on this piece of the story? Read More
Let me bring you up to date on the fast-moving new developments in that horrific fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. Overnight, police arrested one of the first paramedics on the scene, Bryce Reed, on charges of possessing a ‘destructive device’, which in this case turned out to be the materials to make a pipe bomb.
A short time after, Texas officials announced they were opening a criminal investigation into the explosion itself.
Our team has spent the afternoon looking at the case and we’ve just published this new report on the apparent turmoil in Reed’s life since the blast.
Sen. Carl Levin pledges investigation into IRS targeting of right-leaning groups.
The folks at Fox love Fridays, so here’s a quick look at what made them “number one all week long”.