Senate Dems call on Boehner to disband Benghazi panel
Source: the Hill
October 01, 2015, 09:54 am
Senate Dems call on Boehner to disband Benghazi panel
By Jordain Carney
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Senate Democratic leaders say House Republicans should dissolve the special panel investigating the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack given House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's comments that the committee is a political weapon against Hillary Clinton.
"It is unconscionable that the U.S. House of Representatives is continuing to use millions of dollars in taxpayer funds for political purposes, and we urge you to immediately disband the Select Committee on Benghazi," Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin (Ill.), Charles Schumer (N.Y.), Patty Murray (Wash.) and Barbara Boxer (Calif.) said in a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).........
The majority leader created a political storm on Wednesday when he touted the Benghazi panel as a top political accomplishment of the House GOP.
"Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable," he told Fox News earlier this week.
Democrats pounced on the McCarthy comments, which they said proved that the panel wasn't meant to get to the truth behind the Benghazi attack and its aftermath, but was simply meant to hurt Clinton, the secretary of State at the time of the attack and now the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. .......
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/255593-senate-dems-disband-house-benghazi-committee
Sen. Boxer was on this yesterday--and wrote her own letter. glad to see the top Dems do this
MainSt99
(30 posts)This is a typical Republican witch hunt. There is no evidence of wrongdoing on Clinton's part. It's simply an ongoing attempt to destroy the Democratic front runner with false accusations. Of course not a word is being said about Colin Powell who also used a private server as secretary of state.
truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)And if we don't take full advantage we deserve trump.
doc03
(35,328 posts)Bob Ney said today on the Thom Hartman program is all it takes is one Congressman with the balls to bring up charges on
the Benghazi panel. He also said that the investigation would seaze the panels e-mails for evidence of wrong doing. Of course that requires a Democrat with balls and no skelitons in his closet so that eliminates probably all of them.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)doc03
(35,328 posts)his office and asked him to do it. He was the first one came to my mind also. There were some others that called their Congressman too. My Congressman is Bill Johnson (R) he is a Teabagger so no use calling his sorry ass.