Issa's latest round of subpoenas shows that for GOP, Benghazi is about stopping Hillary in 2016
May 30, 2013
Several top aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state, are targets of the latest subpoena for information about the drafting of talking points after the siege last fall on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya.
Representative Darrell Issa, the California Republican who is the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry that the Obama administration’s refusal to cooperate fully with a House investigation left him “with no alternative but to compel the State Department to produce relevant documents through a subpoena.” ... Mr. Issa’s letter says that the State Department is “withholding documents related to the Benghazi talking points,” and that those documents are “crucial to the committee’s investigation.”
The letter goes on to list 10 State Department officials whose correspondence might be relevant to the subpoena, including Mrs. Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and other top advisers like Philippe Reines, Victoria Nuland and Patrick Kennedy.
Issa's most recent hearing made it clear that for the GOP, the Benghazi "investigation" is really the "Stop Hillary 2016" campaign. During that hearing, President Obama was mentioned just 15 times. Hillary, on the other hand, was mentioned 71 times. And now Issa is going on a fishing expedition hoping to obtain materials that can be distorted by Republicans in a political attack. It's a complete waste of resources—unless you're the GOP political hack who leaked the inaccurate Benghazi talking points emails to ABC's Jonathan Karl.
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