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riversedge

(70,187 posts)
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 07:32 PM Oct 2015

Clinton campaign blasts Benghazi panel for announcing Abedin testimony

I think it is just horrible that they would bring her in to testify!!



Clinton campaign blasts Benghazi panel for announcing Abedin testimony

By Rachael Bade

10/15/15 11:45 PM EDT

Updated 10/16/15 10:57 AM EDT





Huma Abedin, the vice chairwoman of Hillary for America who also worked for Clinton at the State Department, had been scheduled weeks ago to testify Friday behind closed doors. | Getty
Clinton campaign blasts Benghazi panel for announcing Abedin testimony

By Rachael Bade

10/15/15 11:45 PM EDT

Updated 10/16/15 10:57 AM EDT

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Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Thursday night slammed the House Select Committee on Benghazi for publicly announcing the Friday appearance of her top campaign organizer before the panel, dismissing it as “just another tactic in their partisan plan to go after Hillary Clinton.”

Huma Abedin, vice chairwoman of Hillary for America who also worked for Clinton at the State Department, had been scheduled weeks ago to testify Friday behind closed doors. On Thursday, the committee circulated a background memo that confirmed her appearance and noted that investigators would ask her only about Libya policy and events related to the 2012 attack.

But the campaign accused the panel of playing politics, particularly because the committee rarely announces appearances before they happen — and because Abedin wasn’t at the State Department the night of the Benghazi attacks, they said. The campaign also said Abedin, who was working part-time at State around the time of the attack, has limited “knowledge about the events surrounding Benghazi.”

“The Committee’s focus on Huma (as opposed to numerous intelligence and defense community officials still outstanding) is additional evidence that the actual attack in Benghazi, and its lessons about how we might better protect diplomats serving in dangerous places, are the last things on the committee’s mind,” the campaign said in a statement...............

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/clinton-abedin-benghazi-testimony-214867#ixzz3omCZExWS

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Clinton campaign blasts Benghazi panel for announcing Abedin testimony (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2015 OP
That makes 9 Clinton staff interviewed and 3 military staff by the Committee to Get Hillary. Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #1
Fallon issues 2 emails about Gowdy not showing up... riversedge Oct 2015 #2

Fred Sanders

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1. That makes 9 Clinton staff interviewed and 3 military staff by the Committee to Get Hillary.
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 07:35 PM
Oct 2015

Plus two GOP politicians admitting it is a sham, and one whistleblower blowing a huge whistle, complete with insider evidence.

Do the math.

I can hear the questions in the secret testimony of the very leaky McCarthy committee - the irony drips - as if it were still the 1950's": "Are you now or have you ever been a......Muslim?"

"Enough of the damn Bgazhi!"

riversedge

(70,187 posts)
2. Fallon issues 2 emails about Gowdy not showing up...
Sat Oct 17, 2015, 12:54 AM
Oct 2015



Brian Fallon ‏@brianefallon 3h3 hours ago

With professionalism and poise, Clinton aides have honored Gowdy's b-roll - er, interview - requests. The least he could do is show up.
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Brian Fallon ‏@brianefallon 4h4 hours ago

To recap, Gowdy summons aide w/ little to no knowledge of Benghazi, issues press release with date/time of appearance, then never shows up
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