Democrats Look Dubiously at Joining Benghazi Panel
By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN, NYT
MAY 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Sunday made it clear that they do not expect fair proceedings from the Republican-led panel newly tasked with investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, but offered no definitive answer on whether they would appoint any of their own members to participate.
Representative Xavier Becerra, a California Democrat, said members of his party would join the proceedings should Republicans — who have agitated for further investigation into the attack, which killed four Americans, including J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya — agree not to block their full involvement.
“We’ve always said that we’re ready to participate. We have an oversight responsibility in Congress,” Mr. Becerra said on “Fox News Sunday.” “What we don’t want to see is reckless and irresponsible use of Congress and taxpayer money to do these witch hunts.”
Speaker John A. Boehner on Friday appointed seven Republicans to the 12-person panel, which was created by a largely party-line vote last week after the release of an email that showed the White House tried to shape the way the attack was discussed by Susan E. Rice, a former ambassador to the United Nations, on several Sunday news programs.
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MAY 11, 2014
WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Sunday made it clear that they do not expect fair proceedings from the Republican-led panel newly tasked with investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, but offered no definitive answer on whether they would appoint any of their own members to participate.
Representative Xavier Becerra, a California Democrat, said members of his party would join the proceedings should Republicans — who have agitated for further investigation into the attack, which killed four Americans, including J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya — agree not to block their full involvement.
“We’ve always said that we’re ready to participate. We have an oversight responsibility in Congress,” Mr. Becerra said on “Fox News Sunday.” “What we don’t want to see is reckless and irresponsible use of Congress and taxpayer money to do these witch hunts.”
Speaker John A. Boehner on Friday appointed seven Republicans to the 12-person panel, which was created by a largely party-line vote last week after the release of an email that showed the White House tried to shape the way the attack was discussed by Susan E. Rice, a former ambassador to the United Nations, on several Sunday news programs.
(More here.)
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