Factcheck: Benghazi panel not ‘longest-running congressional investigation ever’

By Sarah Bedford

Published October 2, 2015 11:53pm ET

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Factcheck: Benghazi panel not ‘longest-running congressional investigation ever’ — Hillary ClintonÂ pounds her fist as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Hillary Clinton’s claim that the House Select Committee on Benghazi is the “longest-running congressional investigation ever” was debunked Friday by fact-checkers who dug up four examples of specially-convened committees that had lasted longer.

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