Oversight Committee Details State Department Efforts to Obstruct Benghazi Investigation in 37 Page Letter to Select Committee
Among the topics covered in the 37 page letter covering the Oversight investigation from September 2012 until May 2014:
The Committee’s early attempts beginning in September 2012 to obtain voluntary cooperation from the Department
The Department’s repeated promises to cooperate, but continued failure to actually meet requests
The Department’s efforts to hide important documents behind a talking point that it had made 25,000 pages available
The Department’s wasteful efforts to cart documents in and out daily instead of turning them over to the Oversight Committee
The Committee’s eventual decision in 2013 to issue subpoenas
The State Department’s refusal to make all documents made available to and created by the Accountability Review Board (ARB) empanelled and selected by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
State Department threats to destroy Committee property necessary for internal organization of in camera documents
Abusive State Department document redaction practices
Department unwillingness to cooperatively make witnesses available
State Department efforts to selectively withhold and produce documents to support a pre-determined agency narrative
Efforts to use the Justice Department as excuse for non-cooperation
Possibly illegal efforts to retroactively classify documents to prevent their release
Oversight Committee Details State Department Efforts to Obstruct Benghazi Investigation in 37 Page Letter to Select Committee « Congressman Darrell Issa
Stop insulting each other and debate the OP. Otherwise, this thread is going to have fewer participants.
