Determined to keep the Benghazi story front and center while the news and entertainment media ignore other stories, such as the carbon dioxide load of the atmosphere, the right wing kept up the drumbeat Monday. Here are some highlights:

• Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, is sworn testimony from the chairman and vice-chairman of an internal investigation into the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post and nearby CIA facility in Benghazi, Libya, eight months ago. The key question he wants answered: Who did they speak to that led them to decide then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton did not direct the response to the attacks?

Retired ambassador Thomas Pickering and Admiral Mike Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, oversaw the Accountability Review Board's investigation of the adequacy of security measures in Benghazi, the response to the attacks and the public response of the administration in the aftermath. They concluded that the decision-making during the attack was undertaken below the secretary's level. The board's unclassified version of its report lists 24 recommendations. Issa said he would receive the testimony from the two men privately.

Issa said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday that Pickering had refused to testify before the committee. Pickering, sitting next to him, said, “That is not true.”

• Issa packed several WTF moments into a brief response to questions from Foxaganda Monday. One of the most off the wall:

“The president sent a letter to the President of Libya where he didn’t call it a terrorist attack even when at the time the President of Libya was calling it pre-planned Sept. 11 terrorist attack,” Issa told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly. “The words that are being used carefully — like you just said, ‘act of terror’ — an ‘act of terror’ is different than a ‘terrorist attack.’ The truth is, this was a terrorist attack, this had Al Qaeda at it.”

• On Sunday's Face the Nation, former Secretary of Defense Bob Gates mocked criticisms that the military did not send special forces or jet fighters to Benghazi. He called these "a cartoonish view of military capabilities."

• Public Policy Polling found that 39 percent of Americans who think Benghazi is a bigger scandal than Watergate don't know where Benghazi is. By a margin of 49 percent to 39 percent, the poll showed Americans trust Hillary Clinton over Republicans on Benghazi. Please read more about Benghazi-mongering below the fold.