Democrats to Release “Classified” Benghazi Interview That Busts Republican Lies

[Bill USA]

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/05/democrats-give-republicans-taste-medicine-setting-benghazi-record-straight.html

Republicans just couldn’t wait to release former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails but now they’ve established a policy of unilateral release of material and Democrats are pouncing.

After Republican Speaker-in-Hoping Kevin McCarthy admitted that the Benghazi probe, funded by taxpayers, was all about manufacturing something with which to attack Hillary Clinton , Democrats are fighting mad. Democrats announced Monday that they intend to correct the record by releasing all of former State Department Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills’ testimony, which Republicans have cherry picked as they hid it from the public.

Democrats on the Benghazi Select Committee wrote to say, “we plan to begin the process of correcting the public record by releasing the transcript of Ms. Mills’ interview.”

This is the interview Republicans claim is “classified” but Ms. Mills’ counsel said at the beginning of the interview, “I would only ask today that at the end of the day, because this is an unclassified hearing, as was just explained to us, that the transcript be released publicly.”

So this is an interview that the witness herself requested be made in public, [font color="red"]but Republicans denied her request[/font]. This is SOP with Republicans, who have done the same with other expert witnesses whose testimony also just so happened to debunk Republican conspiracy theories, such as the often debunked “stand-down” order, the debunked claims that Clinton and her staff inappropriately influenced the Accountability Review Board’s (ARB) report, the claims written by Politico, based on “Republican sources”, that Mills “had reviewed and made suggestions for changes” on the report, and the claim that Mills questioned Ambassador Rice’s TV talking points, when in her testimony Democrats say that Mills said she “did not know the information because she did not participate in Ambassador Rice’s preparation for the interviews.”

The Democrats warned Republicans on the Benghazi committee (my bold):

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Despite claims that the Committee would be run with integrity, Republicans have engaged in a series of selective leaks of inaccurate and incomplete information in an effort to attack Secretary Clinton with unsubstantiated or previously debunked allegations. The latest example occurred after the Select Committee’s interview of Cheryl Mills, the former State Department Chief of Staff. It has become obvious that the only way to adequately correct the public record is to release the complete transcript of the Committee’s interview with Ms. Mills.

We understand that you have not released any of the Select Committee’s transcribed interviews to date, but we believe it is time to start. We note that you have objected to Democrats releasing Committee documents until the conclusion of the investigation, but you already crossed that bridge yourself when you unilaterally released a subset of Secretary Clinton’s emails on June 22 with no debate or vote by Committee Members.

Therefore, we plan to begin the process of correcting the public record by releasing the transcript of Ms. Mills’ interview. Since you have indicated your unwillingness to do this in a bipartisan manner, we plan to do so ourselves.

This will no doubt be barely noticed, or reported on by GOP media. Wouldn't want to bring up anything that counters the disinformation they've been pumping out to support the GOP's McCarthyist campaign against Clinton.

[Doctor_J]

1. how many ops are there going to be on this, and when is it actually going to happen