Republicans admit purpose of The House Select Committee on Benghazi is political

How the GOP Took Biden Out of the Race -- and Gave the Election to Clinton

By Rob Garver
October 21, 2015

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Last month, though, things started to go south for the Select Committee. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, speaking to Fox News, credited the committee for driving down Clinton’s poll numbers, and did so in terms suggesting that had been the point of the exercise all along.

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In a radio interview, Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) said, “Kevin McCarthy basically blew himself up with that comment over the Benghazi committee.… Sometimes the biggest sin you can commit in D.C. is to tell the truth.”

“This may not be politically correct,” Hanna said, “but I think there was a big part of this investigation that was designed to go after an individual, Hillary Clinton.”

“After what Kevin McCarthy said, it’s difficult to accept at least a part of it was not,” he said. “I think that’s the way Washington works. But you’d like to expect more from a committee that’s spent millions of dollars and tons of time.”

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Democrats on the committee released excerpts from witness interviews that they claimed prove that many of the allegations that GOP lawmakers have raised are untrue.

The CIA announced that it was not opposed to the public release of some of the material from Clinton’s emails that the committee had described as classified.

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