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    Benghazi Times Infinity

    Republicans are once again preparing to launch an oversight offensive. Democrats can’t afford to be unprepared.
    by Kurt Bardella Nov 17, 2022 3 minutes
    Source: Getty; The Atlantic

    When the Tea Party wave swept Republicans into the House majority in 2010, they had one objective: to effectively end the presidency of Barack Obama by inundating his administration with investigations and subpoenas. Representative Darrell Issa of California, the top Republican on the powerful House Oversight Committee, and my boss at the time, declared that he wanted “seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks.”

    This is exactly what Republicans are hoping to do to President Joe Biden with their new House majority and the instruments of congressional-oversight authority. Representatives Jim Jordan the fact that they intend to use the power of the gavel to launch successive probes targeting, among others, the Justice Department and the FBI, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and the president’s family, notably his son Hunter. Remember Benghazi? Get ready for more of the same—a lot more of the same.

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