Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Benghazi, had some choice words for the Republican sideshow, called the Benghazi hearings. He called the hearings a Republican “fishing expedition” and blasted his GOP colleagues for hosting such a politicized event:
Last weekend, the Chairman told his Republican colleagues to “shut up” and stop talking about the Select Committee.
What I want to know is this—why tell Republicans to shut up when they are telling the truth, but not when they are attacking Secretary Clinton with reckless accusations that are demonstrably false?
Carly Fiorina has said that Secretary Clinton “has blood on her hands,” Mike Huckabee accused her of “ignoring the warning calls from dying Americans in Benghazi,” Senator Rand Paul said “Benghazi was a 3:00 a.m. phone call that she never picked up,” and Senator Lindsay Graham tweeted, “Where the hell were you on the night of the Benghazi attack?”
Everyone on this panel knows these accusations are baseless—from our own investigation and all those before it. Yet Republican Members of this Select Committee remain silent.
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