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Republican Benghazi House hearing could backfire

It appears as if, a month prior to the election, Republicans in Congress are attempting to score some political points via the Libya attacks. Unfortunately for them, I don't think they've thought this strategy all the way through and it will likely place their party in just as negative a light as Democrats, if not an even more negative one. Darrell Issa, Republican representative of California and chairman of the House Oversight Committee, held a hearing earlier today regarding the attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Utah Republican representative and member of Issa's committee, Jason Chaffetz, stated this morning that the hearing was regarding security that "didn't meet the basic, minimum standards required for a facility such as the one we had in Benghazi." He added that we have to "make sure it doesn't happen in other places around the world." When asked by CNN's Soledad O'Brien if he had voted to cut federal fundin...