What Should Be Next For The Benghazi Investigation?

Let Benghazi's Chips Fall -- Wall Street Journal

The House should appoint a Select Committee.

Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia has written House Speaker John Boehner, requesting the creation of a bipartisan Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi terror debacle. It is an excellent idea. A Select Committee is the only means available now for the U.S. political system to extricate itself from the labyrinth called Benghazi.

There have been two fulcrum events in the accounting of what happened in Benghazi. The first was U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's September 16 declarations on TV that Benghazi was part of the Islamic world's violent, spontaneous reaction to the incendiary California YouTube video.

That assertion, soon revised to acknowledge that Benghazi was a terrorist attack, set in motion a tug of war between some Congressional Republicans and the Obama Administration, with a press corps mostly uninterested in pursuing the story.

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My Comment: The distance between statements by US UN Ambassador Susan Rice and State Department official Gregory Hicks is vast .... it needs to be explained. I concur with the above Wall Street Journal editorial .... the establishment of a bipartisan Select committee to investigate Benghazi will be the best approach to answer all of these questions.