Clinton campaign calls Benghazi panel a 'charade'
Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign has denounced the House Select Committee on the 2012 Benghazi attack as a “charade.”
In a video released on Wednesday, the Clinton campaign accuses the committee and its Republican chairman of wasting taxpayer money on politics.
The video says the Benghazi Select Committee is “spending $8,000 a day in taxpayer money to keep digging” things about the attack on the US diplomatic compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi that left four US diplomats, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.
“How long will Republicans keep spending tax dollars on this political charade?” it says.
The video puts together clips, mostly from Fox News, where anchors comment on the incident or question politicians on the committee’s motivations.
Fox News anchors reveal that the committee’s report will be postponed until 2016 and ask Representative Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the committee, why questions to former Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal about Clinton's 2008 campaign were “relevant.”
Gowdy admits on Fox News that he does not know more about the attack after hearing from Blumenthal, adding, “I never expected Sidney Blumenthal to be able to tell me that anyway.”
According to CNN, up to 35 CIA operatives were working in Benghazi during the attack on September 11, 2012, but it has never reported how many of them died or were injured.
Congressional Republicans have been pushing for a wide-ranging investigation into suspicions that the Obama administration has withheld details of its activities in Benghazi.
Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress are playing political football over the September 2012 Benghazi attack, according to an anti-war activist and radio host in New York.
Don DeBar told Press TV last year that instead of holding President Barack Obama responsible for destroying Libya, the Republicans “fight over the killing of the US ambassador, who also apparently was the CIA station chief there during the entire takeover of the country -- and several of his aides.”
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