Committee staff has reviewed the FBI intelligence reports taken from the survivors in the days following the attack as well as thousands of pages of intelligence reports, assessments, and administration emails leading up to and after the Benghazi terrorist attack. On May 8, , the House of Representatives adopted H. There are two reasons for taking this investigation to the next level.
For the first time, there is clear and compelling evidence the White House was more involved in misleading the American people than it had previously admitted.
Also, the fact that key emails subpoenaed by the House were withheld for more than 19 months suggests a new level of obstructionism and demands the strongest possible actions be taken in an effort to ensure Americans have a full accounting of what happened. It will have clear goals designed to force accountability, get the full truth, and help provide justice.
The four Americans killed in service to the country and the American people deserve no less. Close search. The FBI declined to pursue criminal charges regarding the email system, but it was a major issue in the presidential election. Democrats contended all along that the committee was a political effort to taint Clinton, an allegation that got some traction when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Facebook Twitter Email. House Benghazi committee files final report and shuts down. But then we heard from the House majority leader, who — Mr. McCarthy, who indicated that it was successful because it brought out the e-mail server information about Hillary Clinton. That's why we know she had that private e-mail server is because of this.
Kevin McCarthy indicated that was a win. That led to his downfall. So I think what happened here is, we actually don't know a lot about who said, did what, who was to blame for what. But because of this investigation, we have seen many political figures take significant hits.
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Yes Not now. Gowdy on Russia investigation: Finish the hell up The criticisms of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Donald Trump and Russia that have ratcheted up in recent months hearken back to the investigation that roiled Congress during the last administration: Benghazi. The tables have turned with party doing the criticizing. And there are, of course, significant differences: The Benghazi Select Committee investigation was a congressional probe, while Mueller is a Justice Department-appointed special counsel who is leading a criminal investigation.
But there are still notable similarities over how the Mueller and Benghazi probes transformed into political flashpoints on Capitol Hill, bitterly dividing the two parties.
For months now, a growing number of Republicans have called on Mueller to wrap up his investigation, which originated as an FBI counterintelligence investigation in July that the special counsel took over in May Read More.
South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, who chaired the Benghazi Select Committee for more than two years, joined the chorus Thursday when the told Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to "finish it the hell up. If you have evidence that this President acted inappropriately, present it to the American people," Gowdy said to Rosenstein, who supervises the Mueller probe.
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