Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Tuesday accused Republican members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi of wasting $7 million in taxpayer funds to produce a “partisan” report on the 2012 terror attack.
“The Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee are finishing their work in the same, partisan way that we’ve seen from them since the beginning,” campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement shortly after GOP committee members released a final report detailing their findings.
“After more than two years and more than $7 million in taxpayer funds, the committee report has not found anything to contradict the conclusions of the multiple, earlier investigations,” Fallon contended.
He added, “This report just confirms what Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and even one of Trey Gowdy’s own former staffers admitted months ago: This committee’s chief goal is to politicize the deaths of four brave Americans in order to try to attack the Obama administration and hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign.”
The 800-page report, which comes 24 hours after Democratic committee members released their own report, found that senior Obama administration officials, including Hillary Clinton, misled Americans during and after the attack in Libya occurred.
Fallon’s criticism comes hours after Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., dismissed Democrats’ criticism of the report as mere conjecture.
“Mr. Cummings and the other Democrats just assumed that Republicans were going to do what they thought we were going to do, which was a political exercise,” Gowdy told MSNBC, referring to Rep. Elijah Cummings, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Benghazi Committee.
“They will be shocked when they read the report, if they do bother to read the report,” he said.
