Amidst the labeling of anything suggested on the right as cockamamie, former Obama intelligence official and MSNBC national security analyst Ned Price lashed out at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo while defending the Obama administration’s handling of Benghazi:
The Mike Pompeo of today of 2019 would have some very harsh words of the Mike Pompeo of 2012. You probably member that Mike Pompeo, as a member of Congress, was one of the chief authors and propagators of the Benghazi conspiracy theories and he railed against the Obama administration. He accused the Obama administration of stone-walling when, in that case, the Obama administration turned over tens and thousands of pages[.]
Matthews interjected to express disappointment with Attorney General Bill Barr and Pompeo, screeching: “They believe in all these crazy right wing Trumpian conspiracy theories.” Before that, Matthews offered the first of two mea culpas, admitting that he’s “getting a little involved” and “emotional in this.”
And for good measure, former federal prosecutor Greg Brower expressed concern that the Trump administration have made cabinet officials appear to be political and “in the tank for the President.” Yes, really.