As Outrage Grows, Group Calls For Investigation Into Republican Benghazi Committee

Last updated on September 25th, 2023 at 02:46 pm

As public outrage grows, outside advocates are calling for an investigation into the House Republican Select Committee on Benghazi.

Here is the ad from The Agenda Project calling for an investigation:

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Just like Joseph McCarthy before him, Kevin McCarthy and his fellow Republicans are using their constitutionally granted powers not to advance the interests of the America people, but instead to try to destroy their political enemies,” stated Erik Altieri, Director of Communications for the Agenda Project Action Fund, “It is now clear that the Benghazi committee is nothing more than a multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-funded witch hunt. Representative McCarthy and his conservative colleagues are embracing tactics straight out of the ‘red scare’ era. These tactics are at best unethical and at worst illegal.”

The Republican Benghazi committee investigation has lasted longer than the federal investigations into Watergate, Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassination, Iran-Contra and Hurricane Katrina.

As former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton has pointed out, Republicans have taken the deaths of four American citizens and twisted them for partisan political purposes, “Look at the situation they chose to exploit to go after me for political reasons. The death of four Americans in Benghazi.”

Democrats on the Select Benghazi Committee took the unprecedented step of releasing the entire transcript of an interview conducted with a witness because Republicans were cherry picking and leaking misleading quotes from the testimony.

The anger over Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s admission that the real purpose of the Benghazi Committee is to get dirt on Hillary Clinton is not dying down. House Republicans are abusing their investigative powers, and voters are increasingly demanding that they are held accountable for their behavior.

Republicans have wasted $4.6 million in taxpayer money on the eighth investigation into Benghazi. John Boehner won’t shut the committee down, so it is up to the American people to demand that House Republicans be held accountable for their potential crimes.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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