Subject: FYI: Rep. Schiff Statement on Two Year Anniversary of Benghazi Committee
From: Dem Leader Press Office <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 14:01:08 +0000

For Immediate Release
Sunday, May 08, 2016

Contact: Patrick Boland<mailto:[email-masked]>
202-225-3278
Rep. Schiff Statement on Two Year Anniversary of Benghazi Committee

Washington, DC -- Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a Member of the Benghazi Select Committee and Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement on the two-year anniversary of the creation of the Select Committee:

"It has been apparent since the beginning that the Select Committee on Benghazi would be little more than a politically-motivated fishing expedition. Now two years later -- with no new evidence to alter the core conclusions of the other congressional investigations and the nonpartisan Accountability Review Board report -- the Committee has reached a new level of desperation.  Even the Defense Department can no longer remain silent in the face of this tax-payer funded farce.

"The cost for investigating the attack in Benghazi, including the Committee's own expense coupled with that imposed on the Departments of State, Defense and other agencies, is now over $20 million. As we get even closer to the 2016 general election, all but the most dedicated partisans have written off the Committee and its tremendous cost as one of the worst investigative abuses in congressional history."

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