VDH: DEMOCRATS BETTER OFF TO JOIN BENGHAZI PROBE: PJM’s Victor Davis Hanson is quoted by Boston Herald columnist Jack Encarnacao today:

“The call for a select committee is predicated on those recent memos, with more to come,” said Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, referring to last week’s so-called smoking gun emails. “So if they were to boycott it, and if they have another one of these Ben Rhodes memos, they’d look really stupid right before the midterm elections. They’d be better off to go along with it and hope nothing else surfaces.”

Hanson said Dems will want to be able to shape questions for officials who come before the committee, particularly if more material emerges like a previously withheld email by White House speech writer Ben Rhodes that documents efforts to frame the terrorist attack as a response to an anti-Muslim video, and another previously classified email that indicated the attack was immediately identified as an Islamic extremist terrorist attack. The 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

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