After 16 Months and $4.4 Million, Benghazi Panel Still Searching for Charges

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/09/14/After-16-Months-and-44-Million-Benghazi-Panel-Still-Searching-Charges

By Martin Matishak
September 14, 2015

The House Select Committee on Benghazi was created last year to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and the role former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and others played before and after the violence that claimed the lives of four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens.

After spending 16 months and nearly $4.4 million on the investigation, the committee headed by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is preparing to interrogate Clinton in a highly-anticipated, day-long hearing next month that will likely cap the latest congressional probe of the tragedy.

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This is the ninth congressional investigation into the attacks on the U.S. compound. Previous examinations have explored every facet of the event, from questions regarding embassy security and existing intelligence warnings to the response by the State Department and the military in its aftermath.

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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) guessed Clinton’s appearance next month wouldn’t stop Republicans “obsession” with her, saying the GOP views the probe as “good politics.”

“They’re never going to be satisfied because it’s not about what the committee was supposedly established to do,” according to Cummings, noting that Gowdy has said publicly the panel’s final report may not contain any definitive conclusions about what transpired that fateful day.

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