Newly Relevant Benghazi Panel Spooks Dems
WRITTEN BY
Tim Mak
Jackie Kucinich
Some Democrats are worried a new committee to investigate Benghazi will be used solely as a vehicle to hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances in 2016.
When the House created its Benghazi Select Committee last year, it seemed like a joke—derided by mocking Democrats and eye-rolling Republicans, who'd already run through multiple investigations and hearings on the U.S. consulate attack.
Then the committee revealed Hillary Clinton had used multiple personal email accounts for official business at the State Department. And suddenly, Democrats are terrified—terrified that the Benghazi panel is about to become the House Select Committee to take down Clinton, their presumptive presidential nominee.
“I did not want to believe it, but everything I’ve seen so far has led me to believe that this is an effort to go after Hillary Clinton. Period. Clearly this has been a very much drawn out process,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the Benghazi committee, told The Daily Beast.
Ten months after its formation, the Benghazi investigation had seemed lifeless, at least to public eyes. The Benghazi committee’s own investigation was moving slowly: just three hearings have been held, with two focusing on the State Department’s role. And a House Intelligence Committee report found that there was no intelligence failure leading up to the 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Libya.
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Draco Malfoy's ridiculous little lynch mob can nuzzle up to my satchel.
