After all the red, lame stream media press on Benghazi, millions of tax payers dollars spent on Republican witch hunts to find any sort of evidence to burn Hillary at the stake there is no indictable evidence or even evidence of Hillary covering up her own “incompetence”. We have nothing but hysterical screams of folks that could care less about real facts. If there was culpability it was in a premature release of unverified information but that only equates to intention to cover up in the minds of ‘made for profit’ paranoids not in real fact as ironically proven by Republican driven crazies in Congress. G.W. Bush crashed the economy and started two major wars but you would think by the decibel level Benghazi made, these Republican catastrophes were minor skirmishes. If the Democrats did something wrong it was not putting billions of dollars into neo-con witch hunts against Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld but then Democrats are more concerned about fixing problems than creating them.

Cost

$+23 Million: Minimum total cost to the taxpayers of congressional investigations into Benghazi.

• $14 Million: The State Department has spent more than $14 million responding to congressional investigations into Benghazi.“During yesterday’s meeting, the State Department reported that it has now spent more than $14 million responding to the eight congressional investigations of the Benghazi attacks, turning over tens of thousands of pages of documents, and making dozens of witnesses available for scores of hearings, interviews, and briefings.” [Benghazi Committee Democrats press release, 10/10/15]
  
• $7.1 Million: The Benghazi Committee’s investigation has cost more than $7.1 million. [Benghazi Investigation: The Cost to Taxpayers, accessed 6/27/16]
  
• +$2 Million: The Pentagon said multiple investigations into Benghazi had cost the Department of Defense “millions of dollars.” “The Pentagon said Tuesday that its work to comply with the six congressional investigations into the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, has cost the military millions of dollars and thousands of man hours. The Pentagon said in a letter to Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), the top Democrat on the House Armed services Committee, that Defense Department officials have participated in 50 congressional hearings, briefings and interviews about the attack.” [The Hill, 3/22/14]
  

   

  Hearings

  33: Number of congressional hearings, public or private, held on the Benghazi tragedy according to publicly available hearing transcripts, congressional reports, and committee websites and fact sheets.
  

• Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs hearing, Homeland Threats and Agency Responses held 9/19/12. [Homeland Threats and Agency Responses, 9/19/12]
  
• House Committee on Armed Services hearing, Full Committee Hearing on the Attack in Benghazi held 9/19/12. [Fact Sheet: HASC Oversight Activities on Libya, armedservices.house.gov, accessed 4/13/15]
  
• House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, The Security Failures of Benghazi held 10/10/12. [The Security Failures of Benghazi, 10/10/12]
  
• House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, Benghazi and Beyond: What Went Wrong on September 11, 2012 and How to Prevent it from Happening at other Frontline Posts, Part I held 11/15/12. [Benghazi and Beyond: What Went Wrong on September 11, 2012 and How to Prevent it from Happening at other Frontline Posts, Part I, 11/15/12]
  
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Full Committee Hearing with DNI Clapper, ADCIA Morell, D/NCTC Olsen, and Under Secretary Kennedy held 11/15/12. [Investigative Report on the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012, pg. 7, footnote 11, 11/21/14]
  
• Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Hearing on the Attacks in Benghazi held 11/15/12. [Senate Intelligence Committee press release, 10/25/12, SSCI Review of the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012, pg. 3, footnote 4, 1/15/14]
  
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Full Committee Hearing on Benghazi held 11/16/12. [Investigative Report on the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012, pg. 25, footnote 131, 11/21/14]
  
• Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Hearing With General David Petraeus Re: His Knowledge of the Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya held 11/16/12. [SSCI Review of the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012, Additional Majority Views, pg. 3, footnote 143, 1/15/14]
  
• Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Hearing on Security Issues at Benghazi and Threats to U.S. Intelligence and Diplomatic Personnel and Facilities Worldwide Since the Attack held 12/4/12. [SSCI Review of the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012, pg. 6, footnote 18, 1/15/14]
  
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Full Committee classified hearing on efforts to find the Benghazi attackers held 12/13/12. [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Investigation into the Benghazi Terrorist Attacks Timeline of Investigation to date, no. 34, 12/04/14]
  
• House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, Benghazi Attack, Part II: The Report of the Accountability Review Board held 12/20/12. [Benghazi Attack, Part II: The Report of the Accountability Review Board, 12/20/12]
  
• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing, Benghazi: The Attack and the Lessons Learned held 12/20/12. [Benghazi: The Attack and the Lessons Learned, 12/20/12]
  
• House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, Terrorist Attack in Benghazi: The Secretary of State’s View held 1/23/13. [Terrorist Attack in Benghazi: The Secretary of State’s View, 1/23/13]
  
• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing with Secretary Clinton, Benghazi: The Attacks and the Lessons Learned held 1/23/13. [Benghazi: The Attacks and the Lessons Learned, 1/23/13]
  
• Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing, Department Of Defense’s Response To The Attack On U.S. Facilities In Benghazi, Libya, And The Findings Of Its Internal Review Following The Attack held 2/7/13. [Department Of Defense’s Response To The Attack On U.S. Facilities In Benghazi, Libya, And The Findings Of Its Internal Review Following The Attack, 2/7/13]
  
• House Committee on Armed Services hearing, The Posture of the U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command held 3/15/13. [“HASC Committee Oversight of Benghazi Attack,” HASC website, accessed 4/21/15]
  
• House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, Securing U.S. Interests Abroad: The FY 2014 Foreign Affairs Budget held 4/17/13. [“Investigation of Benghazi,” gop.gov, accessed 4/13/15]
  
• House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage held 5/8/13. [Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage, 5/8/13]
  
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Full Committee Hearing with CIA’s former Chief of Benghazi Base held 5/22/13. [Investigative Report on the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012, pg. 14, footnote 70, 11/21/14]
  
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Full Committee Hearing with Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell held 5/22/13. [Investigative Report on the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012, pg. 16, footnote 83, 11/21/14]
  
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Full Committee Hearing on Benghazi Investigation held 6/14/13. [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Investigation into the Benghazi Terrorist Attacks Timeline of Investigation to date, no. 63, 12/04/14]
  
• House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, and Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa joint hearing, The Terrorist Threat in North Africa: Before and After Benghazi held 7/10/13. [The Terrorist Threat in North Africa: Before and After Benghazi, 7/10/13]
  
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Full Committee Hearing with DCIA Brennan held 7/25/13. [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Investigation into the Benghazi Terrorist Attacks Timeline of Investigation to date, no. 70, 12/04/14]
  
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Full Committee Hearing on Benghazi Investigation held 9/12/13. [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Investigation into the Benghazi Terrorist Attacks Timeline of Investigation to date, no. 74, 12/04/14]
  
• House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, Benghazi: Where is the State Department Accountability?       held 9/18/13. [Benghazi: Where is the State Department Accountability?, 9/18/13]
  
• House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversights and Investigations hearing, Defense Department’s Posture for September 11, 2013: What are the Lessons of Benghazi? held 9/19/13. [Defense Department’s Posture for September 11, 2013: What are the Lessons of Benghazi?, 9/19/13]
  
• House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Reviews of the Benghazi Attack and Unanswered Questions held 9/19/13. [Reviews of the Benghazi Attack and Unanswered Questions, 9/19/13]
  
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, The Benghazi Talking Points and Michael J. Morell’s Role in Shaping the Administration’s Narrative held 4/2/14. [The Benghazi Talking Points and Michael J. Morell’s Role in Shaping the Administration’s Narrative, 4/2/14]
  
• House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, Benghazi, Instability, and a New Government: Successes and Failures of U.S. Intervention in Libya held 5/1/14. [Benghazi, Instability, and a New Government: Successes and Failures of U.S. Intervention in Libya, 5/1/14]
  
• House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing, Implementation of the Accountability Review Board Recommendations held 9/17/14. [Implementation of the Accountability Review Board Recommendations, 9/17/14]
  
• House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing, Reviewing Efforts to Secure U.S. Diplomatic Facilities and Personnel held 12/10/14. [Reviewing Efforts to Secure U.S. Diplomatic Facilities and Personnel, 12/10/14]
  
• House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing, Status Review of Outstanding Requests held 1/27/15. [Status Review of Outstanding Requests, 1/27/15]
  
• House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held 10/22/15. [Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 10/22/15]
  

   

  

  Benghazi By The Numbers

   

Have you ever sent an email to a U.S. Representative or Senator that was not a .gov address? Almost every member of congress has a gmail, yahoo, etc. email address. Folks a server is a server whether it is in your basement or in a private corporation. Even more so, servers talk to other servers. The internet is a long convoluted chain of servers. The name public or private does not concern an actual server in the least. c They are simply servers. Corporations which own or lease servers are just as likely to get hacked as individuals that have servers, probably more so. We regularly hear about servers being hacked. When they are hacked there are “fingerprints” which IT experts can use to verify a server was hacked and track the culprits. The FBI has the world’s best hack trackers. They found no evidence of Hillary’s home server being hacked. Essentially, Hillary did nothing different than any other Congressperson and yet given the red, lame stream media you would think she made Snowden look like faithful steward of our secrets. By the way, did you see that “C” all by itself above. OMG, you just read classified information. My wife and I have had both secret and top secret clearances and I can tell you without a proper header and footer, Director Comey agrees with me, it is not a classified document. Only the Trump Kool-Aid drinkers believer the FBI is corrupt and kept Hillary out of jail which they hope to remedy when Trump is president. If you cannot believe the FBI and want to throw people in jail for political reasons you have much more in common with Putin’s Russia than the democratic United States of America. Maybe you should move there and give it a try to see how it works for you?

This is not a post I feel comfortable about writing. I prefer facts to emotions in these matters. I am not opposed to emotions. I think they are great on either side of the isle. However, I sincerely believe that emptions must always give way to facts or you must implicitly or explicitly give up on logic and give yourself over to your unchecked opinions which are essentially narcissistic, short sighted and counter to everything that got us out of the caves,

However, in this case I do not have the time to write this post in a way I would prefer. My wife and I are working day and night for the Hillary campaign. We are basically running a field office for Hillary. We have donated more money to Hillary than we have ever donated to any political campaign. I need to make this fast and to the point.

Psychologically and rhetorically Trump is not different than a pre-Führer Hitler. I have never said this about anyone that did not call themselves a Nazi. I debated David Duke once in his Nazi uniform with two other Nazi dressed compatriots next to him at LSU. He was a proud Nazi and still is. I do not take these words likely. Trump is purely narcissistic. I do not need the APA’s relatively new takeover of this word over the earliest Greek thinking on narcissus to protect psychiatric jargon. Trump is solely and wholly dedicated to himself to the point of projecting all his insecurities on others. For him the other is alien, dangerous, nasty, sexual predators, leaches on society, liars, ethnic slave owners (his extremely convoluted argument about blacks voting for Democrats). He has no factual basis for anything he says. He tells us he has never lost. He went bankrupt four times and failed in two marriages. The fact is he has always been a loser. I suspect his debt is close to his assets. He lost one billion dollars in 1995 and that is probably not the only year he lost huge amounts of money. He has proved he is a terrible business man with his bankruptcies. He has called himself the “King of Debt”. He will not release his tax returns only a purely fictional and unverifiable account of his net worth. He has been fact checked on more lies than fact checkers have ever seen. They cannot keep up with his lies. He logically contradicts himself on a daily basis. He tells us he never said he was for the Iraq war and yet we have audio where he tells us exactly the opposite. I will not go on because I am too busy working for Hillary to save the world from a Hitler wannabe.

Trump has told us he loves war, he loves fighting, he does not understand why we do not use nukes and why we do not let other countries like Japan get nukes. He has no concern for NATO and thinks Russia’s Putin is quite admirable. He flies off the handle and against his own best outcome chooses battles which hurt his stated desires to be president. It takes four minutes for a president with the “football” to punch in the codes and the personnel in the silo to punch in their code to launch a nuke. There is no middle man or check and balance. In light of his history who could ever lull themselves into any sense of confidence that Trump as president would “Make America Great Again”? Trump would exterminate the world before he could be impeached for ignoring the Constitution.

Additionally, if you in any way think of yourself as a Christian and are so brainwashed that you believe Trump is not the total opposite of Jesus you are absolutely apostate. I have always been fascinated at why Hitler was catapulted to power by well-meaning Germans. We need look no further than Donald J. Trump to understand how this cataclysmic event occurred. Even more so, imagine a Hitler with nukes. He is a “nativist”. He gets his “facts” from the alt-right, Breitbart, which is nothing other than unabashed white nationalists. He hires them to run his campaign. White nationalists love Trump. Jesus would tell Trump voters to “depart from me I never knew you”. Ask yourself if you think you are Christian and vote for Trump can you really can live with yourself and never doubt your vote. If so, you are well beyond hope; you are well beyond love; you have absolutely no notion of truth and righteousness. Look at my post on this site (Anti-Abortion, Anti-Immigrants, Republicans and Jesus) about how the Old and New Testament discusses the sojourner, the immigrant and try to justify yourself in light of the many Bible verses I quote on this matter. If you vote for Trump and tell others you are a Christian, you are everything that crucifies Jesus all over again.

Hitler was motivated by psychotic xenophobia. Trump’s twist on this is that he is motivated by some distorted notion of capitalism. Trump does not give a damn about the folks that have already drank his Jim Jones cool aid. He has shown that contractual obligations to pay his employees mean nothing to him. Trump has shown that capitalism is nothing other than vulture-ism. He inherited money and is every alter ego we liberals have been perhaps overly stereotyping for decades concerning the right. Trump is the ideal of what every liberal has thought conservatism was really about under the covers. A vote for Trump is a vote to concretize the liberal’s worst fear of capitalism and contrary to the sincere and legitimate concerns of the best of Republican’s “Party of Lincoln”. If you are the Republican you want to think of yourselves as, try to think these two thoughts together – the Party of Lincoln and the Party of Trump. If you are not nauseous thinking these two thoughts together you are the reason your Party is going down the tubes.

I will have time after the election to add more statistical and factual evidence to these admittedly emotive claims but for now I am completely occupied with trying to save the world for my beloved kids.