Yesterday the Select Committee on Benghazi’s Democratic minority issued a 345 page report accusing Republican congressmen of conduction an expensive, partisan, and skewed investigation into Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s handling of the Benghazi attack.

Yet the Democratic report itself is a distorted, blatantly political document.

The Democratic report slams the Republican majority for spending more than $7 million dollars on the investigation. One is reminded of Dr. Evil’s ransom demand of “one MILLION dollars” in the Austin Powers movie. Seven million dollars barely pays for an Obama vacation these days.

Even more telling is the report’s several mentions of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

What does Donald Trump have to do with the events in Benghazi? Or with the congressional investigation? Nothing, of course. Yet somehow Trump is relevant in the Democratic report.

In fact, it appears that the Democrats could hardly wait to mention Trump. His name first appears in the executive summary, on p. 8.

“During our hearing with Secretary Clinton,” the report states. “Rep. Pompeo argued that the Select Committee had obtained “over 600 requests” for security from Benghazi, but he refused to provide the evidence for his claim. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took up this allegation himself, claiming: “Look at Benghazi, our ambassador. He wired her 500 or 600 times asking for help.”

And?

Trump appears again on pages 135-6.

Republicans have repeatedly accused Secretary Clinton of personally and knowingly endangering the lives of the four Americans killed in Benghazi. These accusations are based on no evidence, or evidence that is unsubstantiated or distorted, and they are often cloaked in extreme rhetoric that has no basis in fact. These accusations have also been used as part of the presidential campaign and by Republican candidates for president. For example…presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stated: “Then, instead of taking charge that night, Hillary Clinton decided to go home and sleep. Incredible.”

Wow. That’s some evidence of bias on the part of the Trey Gowdy committee!

And pages 143-3.

“Nevertheless, Republicans have spent years trying to find Secretary Clinton personally at fault for the Benghazi attacks. Select Committee Republicans expanded the scope of the investigation to cover more than a year prior to the attacks in order to try to link Secretary Clinton’s advocacy for military intervention in Libya in 2011 to the Benghazi attacks in September 2012. This argument has been adopted on the 2016 presidential campaign trail. For example, in October 2015, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had the following exchange on NBC’s Meet the Press….”

Thank goodness we have Congressmen like these to tell us that Republicans, including Trump, have been critical of Clinton’s botched handling of the security arrangements for the diplomatic compound, her inexcusable nonfeasance during the crisis, and her repeated lies about the causes of the attack.

And it’s the majority’s report that’s politically motivated. Oh, please.

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Yesterday the FBI released redacted transcripts of the Orlando shooter’s conversations with law enforcement officials. All of Omar Mateen’s references to Islam and ISIS were eliminated. Under pressure from Speaker Paul Ryan and others, the Administration reversed itself and released the full transcript.

The transcript quotes Mateen as claiming to “pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State.”

But who made the original decision to redact the transcript? And who made the call to release it in full?

People presume that Obama’s Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, made the decision to redact. She was certainly tasked to defend it. “What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups and further his propaganda,” she declared improbably.

Obama’s Secretary Josh Earnest immediately disavowed the redaction. “All of the decisions about releasing the transcripts were made by Justice Department officials” he claimed, distancing the White House from the entire mess.

Many are skeptical that Lynch made either decision on her own. Yet even if she did, she likely made it with confidence that the White House would back her up. Obama constantly bends reality to suit his agenda. Does anyone remember when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice were tasked with convincing the media that the Benghazi attack was based on an internet video?

In addition, the redaction was consistent with Obama’s insistence that the FBI take a politically-correct stance with regard to Moslem-related terrorist threats. Former FBI assistant director James Kallstrom had commented on the topic just days before during an interview on The Kelly File on Fox News.

Kallstrom, who still has close ties to the FBI, said that field agents are “petrified” of being fired because of White House orders that they cannot investigate “anything to do with Muslims” in the traditional way the bureau would pursue criminals or potential criminals and terrorists.

Charles Krauthammer has argued that the reversed redaction displays a “fanatical” aversion to even an indirect aspersion against Islam. “You’ve got an administration that has no respect for historical record — for actual events. That’s a larger issue, and it’s disturbing.”

The problem here for Obama was that the truth was already disclosed by a liberal news outlet and could not be swept under the rug. Thus he pushed Loretta Lynch under the proverbial bus.

Maybe it will come out that Obama ordered the redaction. And if even if he did not, it certainly occurred in concert with the pro-Islam tenor of his Administration.

Recently disclosed documents prove that Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York ignored federal findings of polluted water in the upstate rural village of Hoosick Falls.

The documents, attained by Politico via the state’s Freedom of Information Act, show that Cuomo’s administration dismissed Federal EPA calls to alert the people of Hoosick Falls to the crisis. Moreover, Cuomo’s officials actively disputed the concerns of the EPA specialists.

Last November, the EPA finally bypassed Cuomo and warned residents against drinking the tainted water.

The water is contaminated by PFOA, a chemical used in a Teflon plant long operating in the area. PFOA has been linked to cancers, thyroid issues and other serious health problems in humans.

Local residents have long protested Cuomo’s apathy. Several of them have commissioned their own blood tests which confirm that the contaminated water has poisoned them with cancer-causing chemicals. These blood tests show much higher levels of PFOA in their bloodstream than Cuomo’s administration admits. Worst of all, children in the area are evidencing higher levels of toxins than their elders.

Nevertheless, the Democrat-dominated State Assembly declined to embarrass Cuomo by investigating the situation.

Now the recently-disclosed documents have prompted calls for further investigation.  Congressman Chris Gibson (R-Kinderhook) has asked the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to investigate the matter.

Last week, Republican State Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin called on US Attorney Preet Bharara to conduct a probe into the Hoosick Falls water disaster. Bharara is already investigating allegations of Cuomo corruption regarding the Buffalo Billion economic development program.

Meanwhile New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, recently launched an investigation into ExxonMobil because he deems that the company has violated “settled science” regarding “climate change.” There is no sign of Schneiderman being concerned about the water crisis occurring within 25 miles of the state capital in Albany.

During the same time frame, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan has gained national attention and several Congressional hearings.

Where is the outcry for the citizens of Hoosick Falls?