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Pelosi Statement on Democrats’ Benghazi Report and Transcript Release

June 27, 2016

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the Democratic Members of the Select Committee on Benghazi issued a 339-page report and released all unclassified interview transcripts in their possession:

“From the beginning, Republicans’ conduct of the Select Committee to Attack Hillary Clinton has made a mockery of the truth and the memory of those brave Americans lost in Benghazi. As Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy openly admitted, the Select Committee exists to abuse millions of taxpayer dollars to smear Secretary Clinton.

“It has long been clear that Republicans on the Benghazi Committee have no interest in the facts. As the report and the interview transcripts reveal, Republicans have engaged in a vast catalogue of abuses – concealing evidence, withholding transcripts, and leaking incomplete and misleading testimony to serve their false partisan narrative. Republicans have clearly abandoned even the pretense of impartiality and credibility in their insatiable hunger to attack Secretary Clinton.

“House Republicans’ Select Committee has now wasted more than two years and $7 million in taxpayer dollars retreading the same facts and conclusions exhaustively detailed in previous congressional reviews. While Republicans continue their deeply cynical effort to politicize the tragic deaths of heroic Americans, Democrats’ focus will remain on ensuring the security of our diplomatic corps and all Americans serving overseas.”

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