Flare-Up on Benghazi Committee as Hillary Clinton Testimony Nears, Partisan tensions amid the leaders of the House board investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, erupted on Sunday, just four canicule afore Hillary Rodham Clinton is appointed to affirm at a accessible audition of the panel.
As the committee’s chairman, Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, able to go on television to accommodate his latest aegis of the investigation, the committee’s top Democrat, Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, appear advice undercutting one of Mr. Gowdy’s contempo allegations about Mrs. Clinton’s use of her clandestine email if she was secretary of state.
Mr. Gowdy had claimed this ages that letters beatific and accustomed by Mrs. Clinton included the name of a Central Intelligence Agency antecedent in Libya. That advice was “some of the a lot of adequate advice in our intelligence community,” Mr. Gowdy said. The actuality that Mrs. Clinton beatific and accustomed these materials, he said, debunked her “claim that she never beatific any classified advice from her clandestine email address.”
But Mr. Cummings said on Sunday that the C.I.A. had abreast the board that advice about the antecedent was not classified.
“Unfortunately, the accepted operating action of this baddest board has become to put out advice about that is inaccurate and out of ambience in adjustment to advance Secretary Clinton for political reasons,” Mr. Cummings said in a letter to Mr. Gowdy. “These again accomplishments accompany discredit on this analysis and attenuate the candor of the baddest board and the House of Representatives.”
Three hours afterwards Mr. Cummings appear his letter, Mr. Gowdy responded, adage Mr. Cummings had mischaracterized what the C.I.A. told the committee. The name of the antecedent had been redacted from the email by the Obama administration, Mr. Gowdy said in a letter of his own, and “the actuality that the C.I.A. says it didn’t do it does not beggarly the actual was not acute or classified.”
“As usual, I would ask you to absolutely and accurately chronicle the facts rather than attack to actualize an consequence that is ambiguous based on an abridged and careful address of the facts,” Mr. Gowdy said.
At the end of the letter, Mr. Gowdy criticized the Obama administration, which he has arguable has banned to duke over abstracts he has requested.
“I am appetent of your staff’s adeptness to get advice from this administering in beneath than 45 annual on a weekend,” Mr. Gowdy said. “This is something the majority associates attempt to do on weekdays. Perhaps you would be accommodating to advice us accretion admission to the advice the board has been gluttonous from the administering for over bisected a year now.”
Mr. Gowdy and Mr. Cummings connected their altercation in abstracted appearances on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Mr. Gowdy approved to advance aback on the ascent criticism of the board for application the Benghazi attacks as a way to attenuate Mrs. Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Gowdy said the board was focused on the Benghazi attacks, not Mrs. Clinton or her claimed email account.
And he acutely criticized two associates of his own affair — the House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy of California, and Representative Richard Hanna of New York — for their contempo statements that the board had succeeded in its purpose of abrasion Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.
“I accept told my own Republican colleagues and friends: Shut up talking about things that you don’t apperceive annihilation about,” Mr. Gowdy said. “And unless you’re on the committee, you accept no abstraction what we accept done, why we accept done it and what new facts we accept found.”
Appearing afterwards Mr. Gowdy, Mr. Cummings acknowledged Mr. Gowdy’s altercation that the board had consistently been focused on the attacks on American government outposts in Benghazi. Four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were dead in the attacks.
“And I do accept that what he has approved to do — I listened to him actual anxiously — he’s now aggravating to about-face aback to area we should accept been all along,” Mr. Cummings said. “That is searching at the Benghazi incident.”
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” two added associates of the board presented their own, adverse angle of the investigation.
Representative Mike Pompeo, Republican of Kansas, drew a allegory amid Mrs. Clinton’s emails and Watergate. “But this is worse in some means — right?” he said.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, said that afterwards 17 months and $4.5 actor spent on the investigation, the board had not baldheaded annihilation new about the Benghazi attacks.
“We accept annihilation new to acquaint the families,” Mr. Schiff said. “Apart from that there was a clandestine email server. That doesn’t acquaint us annihilation about Benghazi.”
Mr. Gowdy had claimed this ages that letters beatific and accustomed by Mrs. Clinton included the name of a Central Intelligence Agency antecedent in Libya. That advice was “some of the a lot of adequate advice in our intelligence community,” Mr. Gowdy said. The actuality that Mrs. Clinton beatific and accustomed these materials, he said, debunked her “claim that she never beatific any classified advice from her clandestine email address.”
But Mr. Cummings said on Sunday that the C.I.A. had abreast the board that advice about the antecedent was not classified.
“Unfortunately, the accepted operating action of this baddest board has become to put out advice about that is inaccurate and out of ambience in adjustment to advance Secretary Clinton for political reasons,” Mr. Cummings said in a letter to Mr. Gowdy. “These again accomplishments accompany discredit on this analysis and attenuate the candor of the baddest board and the House of Representatives.”
Three hours afterwards Mr. Cummings appear his letter, Mr. Gowdy responded, adage Mr. Cummings had mischaracterized what the C.I.A. told the committee. The name of the antecedent had been redacted from the email by the Obama administration, Mr. Gowdy said in a letter of his own, and “the actuality that the C.I.A. says it didn’t do it does not beggarly the actual was not acute or classified.”
“As usual, I would ask you to absolutely and accurately chronicle the facts rather than attack to actualize an consequence that is ambiguous based on an abridged and careful address of the facts,” Mr. Gowdy said.
At the end of the letter, Mr. Gowdy criticized the Obama administration, which he has arguable has banned to duke over abstracts he has requested.
“I am appetent of your staff’s adeptness to get advice from this administering in beneath than 45 annual on a weekend,” Mr. Gowdy said. “This is something the majority associates attempt to do on weekdays. Perhaps you would be accommodating to advice us accretion admission to the advice the board has been gluttonous from the administering for over bisected a year now.”
Mr. Gowdy and Mr. Cummings connected their altercation in abstracted appearances on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Mr. Gowdy approved to advance aback on the ascent criticism of the board for application the Benghazi attacks as a way to attenuate Mrs. Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Gowdy said the board was focused on the Benghazi attacks, not Mrs. Clinton or her claimed email account.
And he acutely criticized two associates of his own affair — the House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy of California, and Representative Richard Hanna of New York — for their contempo statements that the board had succeeded in its purpose of abrasion Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.
“I accept told my own Republican colleagues and friends: Shut up talking about things that you don’t apperceive annihilation about,” Mr. Gowdy said. “And unless you’re on the committee, you accept no abstraction what we accept done, why we accept done it and what new facts we accept found.”
Appearing afterwards Mr. Gowdy, Mr. Cummings acknowledged Mr. Gowdy’s altercation that the board had consistently been focused on the attacks on American government outposts in Benghazi. Four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were dead in the attacks.
“And I do accept that what he has approved to do — I listened to him actual anxiously — he’s now aggravating to about-face aback to area we should accept been all along,” Mr. Cummings said. “That is searching at the Benghazi incident.”
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” two added associates of the board presented their own, adverse angle of the investigation.
Representative Mike Pompeo, Republican of Kansas, drew a allegory amid Mrs. Clinton’s emails and Watergate. “But this is worse in some means — right?” he said.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, said that afterwards 17 months and $4.5 actor spent on the investigation, the board had not baldheaded annihilation new about the Benghazi attacks.
“We accept annihilation new to acquaint the families,” Mr. Schiff said. “Apart from that there was a clandestine email server. That doesn’t acquaint us annihilation about Benghazi.”
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