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

[riversedge]

Rep. Cummings is spot on. Enough wasting time, money and resources on this witch hunt. Past time to move on.


After 16 Months and taxpayer $4.4 Million, #Benghazi #Republican Panel Still Searching for Charges http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/09/14/After-16-Months-and-44-Million-Benghazi-Panel-Still-Searching-Charges#.VfiZhsRdU_8.twitter #p2 #uniteblue

September 15, 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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Democrats argue their initial concerns that the probe would turn into a “witch hunt” aimed a damaging Clinton’s White House bid have come true. They charge the investigation has lasted longer than previous congressional examinations, including the one into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

“I think we got sidetracked and it’s become a committee to investigate Hillary Clinton,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD), the select committee’s top Democrat. “We could have probably done more to look at Benghazi if we hadn’t gotten so sidetracked with regard to Secretary Clinton.”....................

[Human101948]

1. She should tell them to go fuck themselves....

Standing up to them would probably be viewed by most Americans as a positive. (With props to Donald Trump.)

[riversedge]

3. I agree with you --but leave out the F word..

[world wide wally]

2. Add this cost to the cost of all their other "investigations" of the Clintons and you could

make a pretty good dent in the national debt.

[spanone]

4. bastards....

The House could spend up to $3.3 million in taxpayer dollars over seven months on a special committee to investigate the Sep. 2011 attacks against the American diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, more than lawmakers have appropriated for committees dedicated to investigating ethics and helping American veterans over an entire 12 month period.

A ThinkProgress analysis of House spending on its 20 permanent committees from Jan. 3, 2013 to Jan. 3, 2014 finds that since Benghazi committee’s full-year equivalent budget would be an estimated $5,657,142, its investigation will cost more than the budgets of nine other House committees:

Committee on Rules: $2,857,408
Committee on Small Business: $2,992,688
Committee on Ethics: $3,020,459
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs: $3,048,546
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: $4,389,758
Committee on House Administration: $4,600,560
Committee on Agriculture: $5,036,187
Committee on the Budget: $5,138,824
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: $5,282,755
House Benghazi Panel: $5,657,142
Committee on Natural Resources: $6,555,829
Committee on Armed Services: $6,563,535
Committee on Education and the Workforce: $6,952,763
Committee on Homeland Security: $7,033,588
Committee on the Judiciary: $7,077,016
Committee on Foreign Affairs: $7,388,112
Committee on Financial Services: $7,394,482
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: $8,182,307
Committee on Ways and Means: $8,423,411
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: $8,940,437
Committee on Energy and Commerce: $9,520,516

http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/07/08/3457552/benghazi-panel-taxpayer-dollars/

[moondust]

5. We want our money back.

Pay up, Goppers.