Michael Hinton: A partisan witch hunt

Regarding the Oct. 30 column “Skip investigations, win the election”: While I agree with Charles Krauthammer that the House should stop these partisan investigations, I find it disturbing that he feels this way only because they haven’t been effective.

Krauthammer doesn’t seem to have a problem with using the House of Representatives for partisan purposes to try to win an election – just that it hasn’t worked.

Krauthammer doesn’t seem to agree that the Benghazi “investigation” proved once again that there was no “there” there. He still seems to think that splitting hairs about a talking point put out shortly after an attack during a fog of war situation is evidence of dishonesty, or partisanship, when clearly it wasn’t. That entire narrative was always ridiculous.

Besides the fact that even the attackers have since admitted that the video did have a bearing on at least the timing of the attack, why does it not occur to those who find this narrative compelling that any talking points put out to the American public would have also been heard by the enemy?

Maybe we need a committee to investigate partisan political witch hunts paid for with tax dollars.

This story was originally published November 5, 2015 at 3:56 PM with the headline "Michael Hinton: A partisan witch hunt."