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But eight—eight—investigations have already answered the big questions about what happened in Benghazi. Those reports disproved the more feverish conservative conspiracies while also finding that what happened in Benghazi was a massive fuckup, a mess of bad intelligence, bad estimates, and bureaucratic bullshit that created a situation where a ragtag band of local militias could storm the US diplomatic outpost.As Secretary of State during that period, Clinton certainly bears at least some responsibility for that fuckup. But the right wing of the Republican Party wants #BENGHAZI to be more than just a series of mistakes that ended in tragedy—they're looking for a smoking gun, a damning email that says "lol I don't care that Americans died," evidence that confirms all those rarely-made-explicit conservative suspicions that Barack Obama and the rest of the Democrats are actively working to destroy the country they are in charge of running. That motivation turned what could have been a discussion of a disastrous Libyan intervention into a partisan puppet show acted out for the benefit of Facebook trolls and regional talk-radio hosts. And if you watched any of the Hillary Clinton show trial on Thursday, you probably dismissed it as such.Read: We Had a Psychic Read the Energies of the Presidential Candidates
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