Democratic House Members Accuse Benghazi Panel of Abandoning Duty

Democratic House Members Accuse Benghazi Panel of Abandoning Duty

The committee assigned to investigate terror attacks is instead generating anti-Hillary Clinton headlines, the lawmakers say.

by Billy House at Bloomberg.com

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-15/benghazi-democrats-demand-end-to-political-attacks-on-clinton?cmpid=yhoo

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The five U.S. House Democrats on the special committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi on Wednesday criticized Republicans for not planned hearings this year, accusing their colleagues of instead focusing on partisan attacks against Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state now running for the Democratic nomination for president.

"It appears that much of the Select Committee's work has been shelved while Republicans pursue every possible avenue of political attack against Secretary Clinton," states a letter sent by the Democrats to committee chairman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina. It's the latest salvo in a partisan battle over the work of the committee, formed to look into the State Department's handling of the 2012 terror attacks in Libya that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

Gowdy spokesman Jamal Ware blamed "State Department stonewalling" for the delay in hearings. In a statement, the communications director for the committee Republicans also noted that the committee has conducted "more than 30 transcribed interviews" with parties in the investigation. "These private interviews provide the committee a more productive means of getting information than public hearings," the statement continued.



“Amazingly, the last eight press releases on the Select Committee's webpage deal entirely with Secretary Clinton.”

—Letter from Democrats to Chairman Trey Gowdy


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