Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Finally, Democrats Indicate They've Had Enough with Fake Benghazi Committee

Select Committee on Benghazi members.
Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-So.Carolina) second from right
(Any underlines are mine.)

"Noting House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) comment last week about the Benghazi committee's political success, Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Monday circumvented Republicans on the panel to release details from one of the committee's private interviews with a former aide to Hillary Clinton...

...In the letter...'Although some Republicans attempted to explain away Rep. McCarthy's admission, it reflected exactly what has been going on within the Select Committee for the past year-and-a-half... It has held no hearings of any kind since January, and it has completely abandoned its plans to hear public testimony from top defense and intelligence officials so Republicans can focus almost exclusively on Hillary Clinton.'

The Democratic members of the panel then accused the Republican members of using 'a series of selective leaks of inaccurate and incomplete information in an effort to attack Secretary Clinton with unsubstantiated or previously debunked allegations.'

In particular, the letter claims that the committee unfairly portrayed its private interview with former Clinton staffer Cheryl Mills by demanding that the interview be treated as classified information and then leaking parts of the interview to the press...  (Democratic members) told Gowdy that the State Department and Mills' lawyers have five days to identify parts of the interview that should remain private before making the entire transcript public."

eye'm thynkin':  It's about time Democrats started fighting back.

Read more, including the Democratic members' entire letter w/ some details of Ms. Mills interview, at:
 Talking Points Memo (TPM)

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