Thread by @RachelBitecofer

1. The 1st of SIX Benghazi Committees was convened in the House in May of 2014-nearly TWO YRs after the event which occurred 9/11 of 2012.

It wasn't convened to find truth bc that was already known. It was convened to target the D Party's likely 2016 p nominee @HillaryClinton

2. However, in pursuit of the "norm of objectivity" & there never-ending effort to dispel the Right's narrative of media bias, the media covered each of these 6 committees as legit "fact-finding" missions, even after McCarthy publicly admitted its purpose (to political damage

3. Clinton) in 2015. As I demonstrated in my book on the 2016 election, they were facing the probability of running against a VERY popular former S of S. Even 2 years out from Benghazi, Clinton polled well.

Something had to be done!

4. No, even knowing what the GOP was up to, the Ds weren't willing to appear partisan (god forbid) so they rolled out the red carpet for the House minority. Clinton was compelled to submit herself to a 10+hr testimony despite her obvious candidacy for the D nom.

Now, imagine if

5. the Ds had refused to cooperate? Or had withdrawn their cooperation after McCarthy publicly admitted what they were doing? Imagine if @HillaryClinton had refused to show up given that it would impact the 2016 election.

The coverage would have been MERCILESS

Every motive

6. questioned. The media would have stopped at nothing to find out why @HillaryClinton wouldn't show up and the House would subpoena her and call for her to be prosecuted if she didn't show.

If you are a member of nat press corp & not giving the GOP's blocking of the Jan 6th

7. Commission this same level of scrutiny & intensity- ask yourself why? We know Trump & his pardoned posse were in contact w the Proud Boys. We know that certain members of the R Caucus have ties to these groups too.

Yet total complacency in coverage???
Don't you want to KNOW

8. if current, sitting members of Congress had a hand on this domestic terror event? Don't you want to know if the R's intended 2024 nominee helped plot it?

Its your damn DUTY to find out.