When will Hillary Clinton give up her candidacy ?

The invasion was supposed to be on humanitarian grounds. Remember?

The Plame affair (also known as the CIA leak scandal and Plamegate) was a political scandal that revolved around journalist Robert Novak's public identification of Valerie Plame as a covert Central Intelligence Agency officer in 2003.

In 2002, Plame wrote a memo to her superiors in which she expressed hesitation in recommending her husband, former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson, to the CIA for a mission to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq had arranged to purchase and import uranium from the country, but stated that he "may be in a position to assist". After President George W. Bush stated that "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa" during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Wilson published a July 2003 op-ed in The New York Times stating his doubts during the mission that any such transaction had taken place.

A week after Wilson's op-ed was published, Novak published a column which mentioned claims from "two senior administration officials" that Plame had been the one to suggest sending her husband. Novak had learned of Plame's employment, which was classified information, from State Department official Richard Armitage. David Corn and others suggested that Armitage and other officials had leaked the information as political retribution for Wilson's article.

The scandal led to a criminal investigation; no one was charged for the leak itself. Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to investigators. His prison sentence was ultimately commuted by President Bush.

What invasion? When did American forces invade Libya? I missed that.

Finally, I get hold of a phone number for Mohammed Elbibi and he agrees to meet me in his home in the centre of the city.

We sit down and I show him the picture of himself with the golden gun.

"I remember," he smiles. "I was 17 years old!"

He tells me he had nothing to do with the lynching of Gaddafi. He simply found the colonel's gun lying on the ground near the place where he was caught. But, in the confusion of the moment, and seeing him with the gun, the other rebels thought it was Mohammed who had killed him. He became the accidental hero of the revolution.

"What about the gun?" I ask him. It turns out he still has it. He shows it to me - it's a 9mm Browning handgun, gold-plated and decorated with an elaborate floral pattern.

It appears to have been a gift - Mohammed believes from one of Gaddafi's sons - on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. Almost exactly 10 years later, pictures of Mohammed Elbibi brandishing that same pistol would signal the final end to the Gaddafi era.

Oh, right. I'm the second coming of the Lord now?

Nine investigations about Benghazi puts the matter to rest.

As for the "silent" mother, mind your own business.

Are you criticizing the Khans for exhibiting behavior that conservative Christians routinely exhibit? How attitudes change when the conservative word is put out to put the social media "hit" on people-criticizing them for behavior that conservatives do themselves. Such hypocrisy on the Right.

Sheesh. More Benghazi? After how many investigations? Nine, is it?
This isn't about Benghazi at all. We do see that, most of us, don't we? No more than Whitewater was really about Whitewater

I agree completely, enough with Benghazi.

How many diplomats were attacked on Bush's watch and we democrats didn't go on about it forever and a day.

Republicans bring up distractions because seemingly they have nothing else.

Interesting how the same voices so loud about Benghazi are so quiet about Bush's criminality.

Basically, the studies show that attempts to refute false information often backfire and lead people to hold on to their misperceptions even more strongly.