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New Poll: Majority Favors Further Investigation of Benghazi

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, May 08 2014

The American people don’t really care about Benghazi, right? In the juvenile words of former Obama Administration National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor to Fox News’s Bret Baier this week, “Dude, this was, like, two years ago.” Or as Hillary Clinton infamously shrieked, “At this point, what difference does it make?” It’s a distraction. A political circus. Nothing to see there. Move along. To date, numerous observers have cogently and correctly detailed why the continuing Benghazi scandal should matter. …

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