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Going against the wishes of Republicans, Democrats on Wednesday released the full transcript of nine hours of closed-door testimony from a former top aide to Hillary Clinton, a day before Clintons appearance in an open hearing on Capitol Hill.
The 307-page transcript from Cheryl Millss September testimony contains no evidence that Clinton mishandled the U.S.s response to the 2012 terror attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, according to Democrats on the select committee investigating the incident.
Instead, Clinton was very engaged in responding to the crisis, Mills said, according to the new transcript.
In fact, her decision to go to a staff-level meeting about the incident which would normally be below Clintons level as Secretary of State took some people aback, she added.
What she was communicating the night is, Im here because I want my team safe.
And whatever we need to do to do that I want to do, Mills said.
The transcript comes in response to multiple selective and out-of-context leaks mischaracterizing Ms. Millss testimony, top Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.) said in a statement announcing the transcripts release....
Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) had urged Democrats to treat the conversation as if it were classified, but Cummings and his fellow lawmakers have rejected that request.
Millss transcript comes just 24 hours ahead of Clintons high-profile appearance in an open session of the committee.
Democrats and Clinton have both gone on the offense ahead of that appearance, seeming to believe that the political winds have shifted to give them the leverage. A string of damaging remarks from Republicans have seemed to confirm Democrats long-held position that the Select Committee on Benghazi was partly designed to bring down Clintons front-runner presidential campaign.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/257579-dems-release-benghazi-transcript-on-eve-of-clintons-testimony via The Hill
BooScout
(10,406 posts)That would prove what a total crock the whole thing is.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)merely a perceived "shifting of winds to give the Democrats political leverage".
What does that even mean?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)When Hillary goes before the witch hunt committee again, she should attack them with the facts about their sham show trial BS!
brush
(53,776 posts)She's got McCathy and Hanna's admissions that the committee only existed to bring her down. There's also the fired investigator who confirmed that, and now this.
Get the popcorn ready.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)fuck Republicans!