Democrats: Special Benghazi panel nothing but politics
Democrats blasted House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Sunday for opening a select committee to investigate the September 2012 attack on an American facility in Benghazi, accusing Republicans of playing politics with the incident that claimed the lives of four Americans, including then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens.
"I think it's a colossal waste of time," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told "Fox News Sunday" about the new panel. "We've had four bipartisan investigations of this already."
Schiff suggested House Democrats might decline to participate, calling the probe a "tremendous red herring and a waste of taxpayer resources."
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House Republicans are pressing the Obama administration over the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. House Speaker John Boeh...
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New emails are renewing controversy over the Obama administration's response to Benghazi. Bill Plante reports.
In it, Rhodes spelled out several goals for television appearances by then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice just days after the attack. He advised Rice to emphasize that protests in Benghazi and elsewhere in the region before the attack "are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy." Republicans have cited that line as evidence that the administration tried to spin the attack to minimize political fallout.
The email was obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request, rather than through a congressional subpoena, leading Republicans to also accuse the administration of stonewalling their investigation by withholding relevant materials.
Democrats, though, see nothing but politics behind Republicans' continued investigations.
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