Congress, and the House GOP in particular are real good at grandstanding and holding hearings. They’re far less effective in actual governance.

It’s far easier to attempt to craft some crazy conspiracy open-ended theory that Obama did something wrong before/during/after Benghazi, than to deal with the underlying issues that undermined the safety of FSOs around the world - the GOP cutting funding to the State Department security budget.

It is far easier to bray to the GOP right wingers without a care for logic or reasoning like Rep. Jim Bridenstine did when you ignore that there have been more hearings on Benghazi than all of the hearings held following the multiple attacks against diplomatic facilities worldwide during President Bush’s term in office, despite there being more attacks, and more casualties from 2000 to 2008.

The hearings held yesterday were about grandstanding by Rep. Issa and other GOPers - not about getting at the facts. If it were about the facts, we’d be standing here talking about how to make sure that the diplomatic facilities are secured, how the Defense Department is adjusting its policies and procedures to respond quicker, and how State will fix its own institutional problems with rotating staffing at its missions in vulnerable areas (all of which the State Department covered in its own internal report - made publicly available no less).