Benghazi committee a $7M "partisan charade," top Dem says

Benghazi committee a $7M "partisan charade," top Dem says

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-dem-hammers-benghazi-committee-chair-over-disgraceful-partisan-charade/

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Marking two years of a House committee's investigation into Benghazi, a top Congressional Democrat is blasting committee chair Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, accusing Gowdy and other Republicans of "squandering" away taxpayer time and money.

"Republicans have now spent more than two years and nearly $7 million of taxpayer funds for the illegitimate purpose of bringing down Hillary Clinton's poll numbers," Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, said Sunday in a statement, noting that the House Select Committee on Benghazi has discovered "no new evidence" shedding light on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya since launching.

Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House committee, charged Gowdy and his fellow Republicans with being "desperate to hide truth" and doing everything in their power to do so.

"They are selectively leaking misleading information to fit a partisan political narrative, withholding interview transcripts from Democrats to prevent us from publicly releasing the facts to the American people, and completely cutting out Democrats from drafting the select committee's final report," Cummings said. Republicans handling the investigation, he said, "have lost any semblance of credibility," accusing them of politicizing the process over the last two years.



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