Is it true that more Congressional man hours were spent on Benghazi than 9/11?

[Anonymous]

At least the GOP saved millions by refusing to investigate the lies that led to our invasion of Iraq.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BOTTOM LINE: It is horrible that we, citizens of the United States, have allowed more Congressional hearing on Benghazi than were held on the terrorist attacks on our country on 9/11. Period. End of discussion.

More time and money was spent on 9/11 by far. No comparison.

ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE. NP here and your statement that the investigations and hearings into the failures that led to 9/11 as being more costly and time consuming are 100%, absolutely untrue. You are either lying or uninformed. The hearings and continued investigation into Benghazi has been the most time consuming and expensive in the history of the United States Congress.

More partisan jumping up and down. Makes me feel so good being Independent. And stop changing my words. I never said anything about failures that led to 9/11. But there was a lot of money on that and the overall investigation.

The Benghazi investigation is stupid. But who the hell is talking about Congressional costs? The conversation is about COST. And if Benghazi has hit 30 million, and I saw somewhere that Gowdy is up to 6mil, it still hasn't come close. 9/11 investigations, studies and commission cost a lot more than that. In fact no one can even come up with a total. You have money for the commission...budget was 15 million. NIST got 16 million. Then you have additional appropriations to NSA, FBI, CIA all to study the processes that led to the failure of intel. I have friends who were called in and worked a LOT of overtime directly on the research and studies related to 9/11 and funded with money designated rather than from their general budget. And there's more but I won't waste anymore of my time.

BTW...any idea what Ken Starr cost? Somewhere in the 40+ million range. A hell of a lot more than Benghazi so there goes your most costly Congressional investigation..

Everyone else here was indeed specifically talking Congressional cost. But thanks for bringing up Ken Starr - yet another wasteful GOP boondoggle...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BOTTOM LINE: It is horrible that we, citizens of the United States, have allowed more Congressional hearing on Benghazi than were held on the terrorist attacks on our country on 9/11. Period. End of discussion.

More time and money was spent on 9/11 by far. No comparison.

ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE. NP here and your statement that the investigations and hearings into the failures that led to 9/11 as being more costly and time consuming are 100%, absolutely untrue. You are either lying or uninformed. The hearings and continued investigation into Benghazi has been the most time consuming and expensive in the history of the United States Congress.

More partisan jumping up and down. Makes me feel so good being Independent. And stop changing my words. I never said anything about failures that led to 9/11. But there was a lot of money on that and the overall investigation.

The Benghazi investigation is stupid. But who the hell is talking about Congressional costs? The conversation is about COST. And if Benghazi has hit 30 million, and I saw somewhere that Gowdy is up to 6mil, it still hasn't come close. 9/11 investigations, studies and commission cost a lot more than that. In fact no one can even come up with a total. You have money for the commission...budget was 15 million. NIST got 16 million. Then you have additional appropriations to NSA, FBI, CIA all to study the processes that led to the failure of intel. I have friends who were called in and worked a LOT of overtime directly on the research and studies related to 9/11 and funded with money designated rather than from their general budget. And there's more but I won't waste anymore of my time.

BTW...any idea what Ken Starr cost? Somewhere in the 40+ million range. A hell of a lot more than Benghazi so there goes your most costly Congressional investigation..

Everyone else here was indeed specifically talking Congressional cost. But thanks for bringing up Ken Starr - yet another wasteful GOP boondoggle...

Has Gowdy and company spent more than 15 million on Benghazi?

[Anonymous]

I saw a figure of $14 million spent on the Benghazi investigation back in May. Not sure what it is currently.

[Anonymous]

I think the IRS investigation cost taxpayers 14 million. But the IRS investigation was nowhere near as complex, convoluted, long and drawn out as the Benghazi investigation has been so it stands to reason the cost of this one will be much higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the IRS investigation cost taxpayers 14 million. But the IRS investigation was nowhere near as complex, convoluted, long and drawn out as the Benghazi investigation has been so it stands to reason the cost of this one will be much higher.

Did the Justice Department ever finish (or even begin) its investigation of the IRS like Obama said they would do?

[Anonymous]

The Benghazi obsession is 100% politically motivated by the Republicans terrified of Hillary Clinton. It is so ridiculously transparent that this is the ONLY motive that I find it very hard to believe that Republicans and Fox Watching Idiots believe it.

[Anonymous]

Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

[Anonymous]

9/11 happened under Bush's watch. He then executed the worst series of decisions in the history of the United States, if not the world. Iraq, Isis, Syria...even Benghazi can be traced directly back to Bush's decision to turn the world's sympathy into a its emnity with his tragic wars. Historic waste of US treasure. The loss of lives, destruction of bodies, harm to families that stems from those wars is unspeakable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

Total nonsense and you know it. This prolonged and ridiculous over-investigation on Benghazi is 100% politically motivated and nothing more. It truly sickens me in light of the 9/11 hearings especially.

Only a total fool cannot see that the Republicans are prolonging Benghazi and trying to make something out of nothing ONLY to try to bring Hillary Clinton down. And I am no fan of Hillary Clinton but stunts like this by the Republican party are forcing me to never support Republicans.

I would honestly be ashamed to vote for a Republican now for Congress or the Presidency. That is the God's honest truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

Hillary has repeatedly offered to appear before them personally and testify. It's Gowdy's panel that's refused that. And meanwhile, there already have been hundreds of hearings, thousands and thousands of documents reviewed, dozens of independent investigations and to date NONE of them support the core allegations made by Gowdy's panel.

[Anonymous]

^ Yet we are all supposed to believe that it's all Hillary's fault that they can't find any evidence. If the allegations they made are actually factual, then the evidence for them should exist in a great many places other than solely residing in Hillary's email.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

Total nonsense and you know it. This prolonged and ridiculous over-investigation on Benghazi is 100% politically motivated and nothing more. It truly sickens me in light of the 9/11 hearings especially.

Only a total fool cannot see that the Republicans are prolonging Benghazi and trying to make something out of nothing ONLY to try to bring Hillary Clinton down. And I am no fan of Hillary Clinton but stunts like this by the Republican party are forcing me to never support Republicans.

I would honestly be ashamed to vote for a Republican now for Congress or the Presidency. That is the God's honest truth.

Are they still on Benghazi or her emails?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

Total nonsense and you know it. This prolonged and ridiculous over-investigation on Benghazi is 100% politically motivated and nothing more. It truly sickens me in light of the 9/11 hearings especially.

Only a total fool cannot see that the Republicans are prolonging Benghazi and trying to make something out of nothing ONLY to try to bring Hillary Clinton down. And I am no fan of Hillary Clinton but stunts like this by the Republican party are forcing me to never support Republicans.

I would honestly be ashamed to vote for a Republican now for Congress or the Presidency. That is the God's honest truth.

Are they still on Benghazi or her emails?

Whatever defeats Hillary. They moved on from Obama pretty much after the election, so you can surmise their intent from that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

Hillary has repeatedly offered to appear before them personally and testify. It's Gowdy's panel that's refused that. And meanwhile, there already have been hundreds of hearings, thousands and thousands of documents reviewed, dozens of independent investigations and to date NONE of them support the core allegations made by Gowdy's panel.

Why would they interview her before they have all the evidence that they have requested and not received? They have waited to get the copies of her emails around the time of Benghazi, but have not received them. Since she has agreed only to appear once, they are waiting until they have all the emails (at least those she didn’t destroy).
I don’t blame them for waiting. And, I can see why Hillary might want to testify sooner rather than later.