Democrats to Stay on Benghazi Committee After Clinton Testimony

Source: Bloomberg

Democrats will stay on the U.S. House Benghazi committee even though they accuse Republicans of politicizing the investigation in a partisan attempt to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy.

The five Democrats on the 12-member committee announced their decision Friday, a day after Clinton’s marathon testimony before the panel. They called on House Speaker John Boehner to shut down what they described as an “abusive, wasteful and obviously partisan effort” to target the Democratic frontrunner rather than investigate the deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.

“If the speaker rejects our request, Democrats will continue to participate at this point in order to make sure the facts are known and the conspiracy theories are debunked,” said the Democrats.

Clinton was the sole witness at Thursday’s hearing, and she answered questions from 10 a.m. until past 9 p.m., with breaks. Her demeanor and responses to the pointed questions from the panel’s Republican majority were widely viewed as a public-relations victory for the Democratic presidential candidate.

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