WASHINGTON — From the Department of Predictable Outcomes: The House select committee investigating the 2012 attacks on the U.S diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, appears to be falling apart.
At issue are two complaints from committee Democrats. The first is that they have been systematically excluded from at least five witness interviews, and only discovered that Republicans had conducted those interviews after the fact through press reports. The second complaint is the committee chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), is downplaying or disregarding interview testimony that contradicts assumptions about the night of the attacks.
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“There are rules on the Committee of Oversight and Government Reform,” the Democratic aide said of the other major investigative committee that was led, in the last Congress, by Rep Darrell Issa (R-Calif.). “There are no rules here. … At least we had rules with Issa.”
