Elliott Abrams Seems Poor Choice to Pronounce on Benghazi

Elliott Abrams Seems Poor Choice to Pronounce on Benghazi
Published on May 10th, 2013 | http://www.lobelog.com/elliott-abrams-seems-poor-choice-to-pronounce-on-benghazi/
by Jim Lobe
As Republican lawmakers and Fox News have been claiming that the Benghazi “cover-up” scandal will prove even bigger than the Iran-Contra and Watergate scandals combined, Elliott Abrams – who, faced with a slew of felony charges by the Iran-Contra special prosecutor while serving as Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs (1985-89), quickly pled guilty to two counts of misleading Congress — seemed to be a particularly poor choice by the Wall Street Journal to comment on this week’s hearings by the House Oversight Committee and decry the partisanship and viciousness of “Washington politics.”