Following the Wall Street Journal's lead, BBB (who I think highly of to be sure) wrote a diary titled Sanders Wants Benghai Committee to continue witchhunt. The story is getting played that way in the Beltway Media. But is it accurate? I'm skeptical.
What if instead, Sanders said something like this:
The key phrase:
There is a process in place for the email situation that Hillary Clinton is dealing with. Let it play itself out. But as a Nation let us start focusing on why so few have so much and so many have so little.If Bernie said this and the Wall Street Journal twisted it into the story they wrote, then shame on the Wall Street Journal, not Bernie Sanders. This is the quote provided:
“There’s an investigation going on right now. I did not say, ‘End the investigation.’ That’s silly.…Let the investigation proceed unimpeded.”And here Bernie clearly made a mistake - using the word "investigation," which in Washington is a loaded term. I suggest he be careful to use the word "process" as he did in the clip after the debate.
But at this point, my suspicion is the Wall street Journal is playing us.
Release the transcript Wall Street Journal so we can all know the truth.
UPDATE - here is a link to the Sanders WSJ interview.