Benghazi Investigation Spends Fortune to Harass Hillary Clinton

[spanone]

THIS is how republicans roll......a few months old, but worthy read. imo.


Benghazi Investigation Spends Fortune to Harass Hillary Clinton

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Over 13 months the Benghazi Select Committee has spent more than $3,500,000, exceeding the budget of the entire House Intelligence Committee. This figure does not include significant expenditures made by the State Department and Defense Department to find and declassify material requested by the committee or the expense of witness travel for those who work for the government.

While exact dollar amounts spent by federal agencies are unavailable, details released about other declassification processes shed light on these costs. In March 2014 the Defense Department informed Democratic Rep. Adam Smith, they had spent “millions of dollars” and “thousands of man-hours to responding to numerous and often repetitive Congressional requests regarding Benghazi.” Currently the State Department has 12 full-time staff members paid between $63,700 and $150,000 reviewing Hillary Clinton’s emails “a process that could cost more than $1 million” according to the National Journal. The total cost for these document queries could run well into the eight figures. For example, the IRS spent $14 million responding to Congressional investigations into accusations it politicized the tax-exemption application process.

The Benghazi Select Committee has little to show for the significant expenditure—aside from a trail of unfulfilled promises by its Chairman. “We will have hearings in January, February and March,” Rep. Gowdy (R-SC) announced in December. That never happened.

The committee held a single hearing in January, focused on berating State Department legislative liaison Joel Rubin about the production of documents. CIA representative Neil Higgins escaped with a mild talking to. Read more at:

http://tr.im/SRRx1

[djean111]

1. This is why I do not believe the GOP Congress will work with Hillary AT ALL. n/t

[OilemFirchen]

2. Who do you suppose they WILL work with? (n/t)

[still_one]

4. you mean they might not work with "any Democrat"? OH MY!

[djean111]

6. I have seen it expressed many times that Congress will not work with Bernie, and/or Congress

will not work with any democrat.

I think Bernie does work with the GOP at times; he and John McCain introduced a bill recently, for example.
And if it is felt that Congress will not work with any Democrat at all - then I have no reason to prefer anyone BUT Bernie.
Because of issues.

[spanone]

3. they won't work with anyone on the democratic side.

love how gowdy admits they're going into 2016...of course they are....you know, that 'untrustworthy' thing seems to be working.

Rep. Gowdy now states the committee will continue its work into 2016 raising its cost to taxpayers to more than $6,000,000, casting his inaction as the result of the Obama administration’s slow pace at producing requested documents, a questionable premise. Rep. Gowdy began receiving documents in August. The committee did not make its first request to the State Department until mid-November, six months after beginning its work. His document request to the Department of Defense was only delivered in early April of this year. Read more at: http://tr.im/SRRx1

[riversedge]

5. edit subject line to say--Taxpayer fortune IMHO

[Person 2713]

7. My hard earned tax money Really ? For this bullshit hunt?

[oldandhappy]

8. The party of fiscal responsibility!!

[Gothmog]

9. This committee is a witchhunt