Of the Benghazi committee’s 136 questions to Clinton, 8 are directly about Benghazi

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Of the Benghazi committee’s 136 questions to Clinton, 8 are directly about Benghazi

By Philip Bump at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/04/23/of-the-benghazi-committees-136-questions-to-clinton-8-are-directly-about-benghazi/

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In a 10-page letter, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, posed more than 130 new questions that he would like former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to answer. Of that number, eight relate directly to or mention Benghazi.

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There's a reason for this. The vast majority of the questions are specifically about the creation and eradication of Clinton's personal e-mail server and account. In that regard, it is quite thorough, asking what could constitute every possible question about the system's security, compliance with public records laws and awareness of its existence within the Obama administration. They are good questions, and ones that the government should be asking.

But they are not specifically about Benghazi. Gowdy explains this in a press release that accompanied the letter. "[T]he House Resolution that established the Select Benghazi Committee gave the committee purview to examine all aspects of State Department’s compliance with previous Benghazi investigations," it reads, "which now includes State’s failure for two years to notify any of the previous investigative committees it did not have possession or control of Clinton’s email public records." You'll notice that the final seven questions above deal with the record-keeping questions as they pertain to the Benghazi committee, not the attacks themselves.

On Wednesday, a spokesman for Gowdy indicated that the investigation might continue into 2016, which surprised only the least cynical of political observers. The committee has been trying to get Clinton to testify again for some time; the letter was part of that process. But the delay can also be explained by the shift in attention to the meta-investigation of Benghazi, which clearly has put enough gas in the committee's engine to power for a few more miles.




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[Scootaloo]

1. So... gibberish, basically? no surprises from that "committee"

[Kingofalldems]

2. DU Hillary haters: 'She needs to explain herself and clear this up.'

As if anything she says will satisfy the criminal republicans.

[Autumn]

3. Has the committee put in a call to Ken Star yet?

I'm sure that little twerp Gowdy is having wet dreams about that.

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4. Last night Bill Maher listed the names of all the Republican/Ken Star investigations

involving Hillary. There were about 15 of them. Ken Star's conclusion? Only Monicagate was true.