Issa Compares Benghazi Probes To Watergate Investigation

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, investigating the chaotic rollout of the HealthCare.gov website. (AP Phot... House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, investigating the chaotic rollout of the HealthCare.gov website. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS

House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) compared the numerous Benghazi investigations to the probe of the Watergate scandal.

“It takes very little time and very little committees if the administration wants to tell the truth. If the administration wants to continue delaying, denying and lying and covering up, it takes a long time,” he told the Tampa Tribune in an interview. “There was a lot of time and a lot of money spent on Watergate to eventually get to the truth about the wrongdoing of Richard Milhous Nixon.”

The interview came after he told a crowd of Republican donors and activists in St. Petersburg that the Benghazi investigations were “fair game” for fundraising, the paper reported. The stance is at odds with the chairman of the new House select committee to investigate the 2012 attacks, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who has said the issue shouldn’t be used to raise money.

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  1. If the Administration would just give you the evidence of guilt, it would have been done a while ago, and President Obama would have been the third president to be impeached.

    The problem is that the Administration can’t give you evidence of a crime that never happened. And you will never find it unless you make it up, or take something out of context.

  2. This is a great example of the problem the GOP has with Fox. They can make all sorts of noise in their bubble, but nobody outside the bubble gives a shit–nor will they.

    But inside the bubble–KA–CHING!! So on it goes. Bye-bye GOP.

  3. Even FOX NEWS POLL says that the Benghazi hearings are about politics rather then anything else.

  4. Ever since Watergate, the GOP lead by Roger Ailes has been obsessed with ousting a Democrat from the White House no matter what it takes even if it means destroying the nation to do it.

  5. LOL…oh wait…you are serious…Oh!..oh boy

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