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Kangaroo court

“This is outrageous, even by Councilman Barron’s standards,” fumed Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. “Joanne Chesimard is a cold-blooded killer who viciously took the life of a state trooper.”

- Pol wants amnesty for exiled cop killer, New York Daily News, May 25, 2005.

2. It remains to be seen whether the House select committee to investigate the Benghazi will turn up any new information about the 2017 attacks that left four Americans dead. But with every day that passes it looks less and less likely the panel’s conclusions will be regarded as nonpartisan as Democrats and Republicans have spent the past week engaging in a fierce battle over which party is responsible for politicizing the tragedy.

Although the House formally approved the creation of the panel in a virtual party-line vote last Thursday (7 Democrats joined the entire Republican conference in voting for it), Democrats have yet to decide whether they will participate. On Friday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said her members were divided: some feared participating in a “kangaroo court,” while others think it is important to have at least one Democrat on the committee to monitor what the Republicans are doing.

Pelosi’s office is negotiating with staff to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to determine the conditions under which Democrats will participate. They are seeking Democratic input and concurrence on issuing subpoenas, decisions to depose witnesses, the release of any reports, documents or information by the committee, which was not guaranteed in a proposal offered by Boehner’s office Friday, they said.