# Election strategy: Benghazi subpoena?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-strategy-benghazi-subpoena/726868>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 3, 2015, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-strategy-benghazi-subpoena/726868 "2015-08-03T09:17:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-strategy-benghazi-subpoena/726868/1 "2015-08-03T09:17:35Z")

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I have the idea that one of the major Republican election strategies will be to subpoena Hillary about Benghazi so that she will have to spend September and October 2016 being grilled by Republican Congressmen rather than be out campaigning. Or maybe it’ll be about the email account thing. What are the chances of this happening and would it succeed?

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**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-strategy-benghazi-subpoena/726868/2 "2015-08-03T09:34:06Z")

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> [@dtilque](#):
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> I have the idea that one of the major Republican election strategies will be to subpoena Hillary about Benghazi so that she will have to spend September and October 2016 being grilled by Republican Congressmen rather than be out campaigning. Or maybe it’ll be about the email account thing. What are the chances of this happening and would it succeed?

How’d that work out with Whitewater?

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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-strategy-benghazi-subpoena/726868/3 "2015-08-03T10:57:45Z")

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No one stays before Congress that long, first, and second, if they want her to appear they can do that now. Waiting until then would backfire in a big way.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-strategy-benghazi-subpoena/726868/4 "2015-08-03T11:22:31Z")

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It’s hard to hold a committee meeting when everybody is busy running their re-election campaigns. Plus now I’m beginning to think the nominee just might be Joe Biden.