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Top Dem Calls for more Benghazi Hearings
This post Top Dem Calls for more Benghazi Hearings originally appeared on Truth About Bills
With recent hearings on Benghazi shedding more light on the terrorist attack, more calls for a larger investigation are starting to ring in. This time the calls for greater investigation into the Benghazi attack came from an unlikely source.
Rep Cummings (D-MD) Supports more Benghazi Hearings“If our committee is truly interested in improving the security of American diplomatic personnel overseas, members of our committee and the American public should hear first-hand from the individuals who have done the most exhaustive review of these attacks,” Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland wrote in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the panel’s chairman.Issa continues to pressure the Admin on Benghazi
In a Sunday talk show appearance, Issa said he would seek sworn testimony from veteran diplomat Thomas Pickering and retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two conducted an independent investigation of the Sept. 11 attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Their report was highly critical of the State Department’s handling of at the U.S. outpost. Pickering, who also appeared on the Sunday shows, defended his scathing assessment but absolved former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“We knew where the responsibility rested,” said Pickering, whose career working for Republican and Democratic administrations, spans four decades.
Issa said he wants to know with whom the pair spoke to reach their conclusions about Clinton. Cummings suggested that they testify in public before the committee on May 22.
“This is a failure, it needs to be investigated. Our committee can investigate. Now, Ambassador Pickering, his people and he refused to come before our committee,” Issa said Sunday.
Pickering, sitting next to Issa during an appearance on one Sunday show, disputed the chairman’s account and said that he was willing to testify before the committee.
What happens next with Benghazi?
With more and more calls from Congressmen on both sides of the aisle it would seem more hearings are bound to happen. The question is will new Benghazi hearings lead to a slow drip of information, or will the flood gates be opened?
This post Top Dem Calls for more Benghazi Hearings originally appeared on Truth About Bills
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