House Republicans announced a new direction for the Select Committee on Benghazi. After receiving criticism that they had been misusing the investigative powers of the panel to advance political interests by focusing on Hillary Clinton’s email server, the head of the panel, Trey Gowdy, and Speaker John Boehner announced today that they will turn their attention to looking into the fate of Amelia Earhart. “We’re confident we will get to the bottom of this mystery,” said Gowdy, “and find that Hilary Clinton was to blame.” The committee has an ambitious agenda after solving this mystery, including finding ways to blame Clinton for the unsolved theft of 13 masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, the sexual misconduct of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, and the murders of Jack the Ripper. In related news, a House member did not tell a lie yesterday. The Smithsonian was contacted in order to document the occurrence.