John Fugelsang: Hey, Republicans, here’s a real scandal — military sexual assaults
“Start putting these star-spangled sex crimes on trial in civilian courts where the CO’s can’t overturn a verdict.” —John Fugelsang watch video
Topic: Defense
Who is to blame for the backlog of disability claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs?
“At the regional [Veterans Affairs] office … these people have been there for awhile — they’re government service employees and they know that there’s nothing you can do to either remove them or replace them.” —Thomas Bandzul watch video
Thomas Pickering: Some Benghazi press reports were ‘close to Pulitzer Prize fiction’
“We investigated every lead, every question that came up in the press.” —Thomas Pickering, co-chair of the Accountability and Review Board, on the board’s report on Benghazi watch video
Richard Socarides on IRS–tea party scandal: ‘This is a disaster’
“A high crime or misdemeanor, as we know from the last time around this track, is whatever the House majority decides it is.” —Michael Tomasky watch video
John Fugelsang: Oliver North talks about a Benghazi cover-up — and irony hangs itself
“The levels of irony, mixed with a toxic cocktail of hypocrisy and ignorance and a hubris chaser, proved too much and led to irony hanging itself in grief.” —John Fugelsang watch video
Susan Burke: If the military fails to prosecute sexual assault, there will be more rapes
“Currently the way the system works is very perpetrator centric, rather than victim centric.” —Retired Air Force Staff Sgt. Colleen Bushnell watch video
John Fugelsang: BENGHAZI — now in easy-to-swallow pill form
“Just one pill in the morning gives you that sense of righteous false equivalency, with none of the pesky awareness that you’re actually exploiting four tragic American deaths.” —John Fugelsang watch video
Will Israeli airstrikes in Syria lead to US military action?
“Israel has the capacity to strike, and it’s not clear whether Assad has the capacity to respond to these types of pinpointed strikes.” —Joel Rubin watch video
Adam Serwer on transferring prisoners out of Guantanamo: ‘The Republican objections are ridiculous’
“If Gitmo detainees were transferred to the United States, they’d be in the most secure federal institutions … on the planet.” —Adam Serwer watch video
John Fugelsang lists George W. Bush’s good deeds — eventually
“Bush’s greatest achievement for which I will always personally thank him: He didn’t die in office.” —John Fugelsang watch video
