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The Hill

Senate Republicans are furious the Obama administration rebuffed their attempts to learn details of the Benghazi attack, only to give the coveted information to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Senators say they were rebuffed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when they pressed for more information about the attack that killed U.S. envoy Christopher Stephens in Libya.

“That is the most useless, worthless briefing I have attended in a long time,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told reporters after the closed-door session.

GOP lawmakers were incensed to find many of the details they tried to learn Thursday were in a front-page article in The Times the following morning.

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  1. dba_ vagabond_ trader

    September 23rd, 2012

    Now they know how we the people feel being treated like their subjects.

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  2. jus askin yo

    September 23rd, 2012

    HOW could you be so surprized?

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  3. Typical white person

    September 23rd, 2012

    “Some think the media have given Obama favorable coverage.” Ha. Haha. Hahaha.
    I have also had the same thought…..

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  4. Maudie N Mandeville

    September 23rd, 2012

    FHA! FHA! (Feelings hurt alert!!) This too shall pass. See you at the cocktail party, tonight.

    OMG, and to hear McCain whining. Maybe he should have grown a pair in ’08 and he wouldn’t be relegated to Chief Cry-baby. McCain gags me almost as much as Michelle Obama.

    Remember Bill Cunningham stirring up the crowd in ’08 before Senator Titty baby came on the stage and McCain’s reaction:

    “It’s my understanding that before I came in here a person who was on the program before I spoke made some disparaging remarks about my two colleagues in the Senate, Senator Obama and Senator Clinton,” he said.

    “I have repeatedly stated my respect for Senator Obama and Senator Clinton, that I will treat them with respect. I will call them ‘Senator.’ We will have a respectful debate, as I have said on hundreds of occasions. I regret any comments that may have been made about these two individuals who are honorable Americans.”

    “Whatever suggestion that was made that was any way disparaging to the integrity, character, honesty of either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton was wrong,” he said, “I condemn it, and if I have any responsibility, I will take the responsibility, and I apologize for it.”

    He called Mr. Obama a “man of integrity” and said he was someone he had come to know “pretty well and I admire.”

    He also said that it was not appropriate to invoke Mr. Obama’s middle name in the course of the campaign.

    “I absolutely repudiate such comments,” he said. “It will never happen again.”

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  5. Mohammed's pink swastika

    September 23rd, 2012

    Yeah, Mcain and Obama are both slices off the same block of stinky cheese. Mcain actualy helped to elect Obama. By his lack of willingness to stand up for the truth, and call out Obama for policies that were there for any one who wanted to see them. If Romney does not call him out, and stand up for the truth… Then we get Obama and his Moslem cover up for another four years.
    If Romney would just fight! He would win. Americans want a strong president, not a gay president.
    Another term for redefining teminoligy, is called LIEING!!!

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  6. Mr.Pinko

    September 23rd, 2012

    We’re getting the same bullshit stalling, re-framing the narrative with Fast and Furious.

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  7. Lowell

    September 23rd, 2012

    This was because the administration knows who they need to care for.The lap dogs in the media are in fact an extension of the executive.

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  8. Team America

    September 23rd, 2012

    Where’s the headline, “hillary is a murderer?” No one has the balls to say it. She and oblowme are to blame for the murders of our ambassador and SEALS.

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  9. serfer62

    September 23rd, 2012

    You asshole Establishment had better have these people in jail in ’13

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  10. Joe

    September 23rd, 2012

    According to Beck, Congress has made themselves irrelevant. Boehner and Cantor have to go.

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  11. bitterclinger

    September 23rd, 2012

    Gosh, could these be the same butt hurt folks who voted 81-10 to CONTINUE aid to crazy muzz countries against the overwhelming wishes of their constituents?

    Cry me a river.

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