UPDATE: Clinton’s testimony was delayed until the Department of State passed the rest of the documents in Libya (by National Journal):
The House panel led by GOP, who examined Bengazi’s attack in 2012, postponed plans to interrogate from Hillary Clinton, speaking secretary of state John Kerry in a letter that no documents were released in which the state is the lack of documents.
“The only thing that stands between the committee and the former secretary who is able to discuss his term as secretary of state, because it refers to Libya and Bengazi, is the defeat of the State Department, within over half a year, producing one lonely e -ail reacts At our request and call to a call, “wrote a representative of Trey Gowda, chairman of the Bengazi selection committee.
Last month, Gowdy raised the idea of ​​interrogation, which is to take place on May 18, but now says that legislators need more information to inform their questions to Clinton about fatal attacks and the exploit of a private E -Mail server for the state department.
“It is still possible to plan the appearance of a former secretary, but this depends on the Department of Conformity of State,” Gowdy wrote.
Democrats on the panel claim that Gowdy delays the trial and leisurely walking of the probe for political reasons.
In the GowDA letter wrote“The committee and former secretary is not possible to constructively discuss politicians, decisions and activities related to Bengazi without a department effectively cooperating with justified applications for appropriate and important information.”
On April 30, the Committee gained access to over 4,000 pages of documents from Stanie Audit council of responsibility, which they say there is compatibility with documents that Gowda is looking for, although the state provided these materials two years After the application is submitted by the Congress.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman House Committee for the House for BengaziIt is “likely” to refuse Clinton’s legal team regarding the one -time emergence of questions about the Libyan terrorist attack in September 2012. Gowdy turned to the former secretary of state about twice to be in front of the committee to answer questions about this topic and its private system E – Mail. David Kendall, Clinton’s lawyer, sent a letter with information that the request for a two -seater commission had no precedent, but the first lady agreed to one performance, he would remain “as long as necessary” to answer all questions from the panel (via via panel (via the panel (via the panel (via the panel (via the panel (via the panel (via the panel Politico):
The latest return may take place this week, when Gowdy, a three-year-old Congresmen from southern Carolina, who was appointed a year ago to run the Bengazi panel, is expected whether he will accept Clinton’s offer to appear once or only once- before his committee next week .
The answer will probably not be: Gowdy and Republicans wanted Clinton to appear in a private interview with the committee, but later they presented two public interrogations as a compromise.
“Fear was that she would have two interrogations, he would take information from the first, which would probably concern e-mails, and choose them and use them in any way,” said representative Elijah Cummings (D-D-D-D-D-D-D.), the best democrat in the Bengazi panel . “This thing has become too much about Hillary Clinton and away from what the parents of the victims (attacks) asked us.”
At least Gowdy wants the State Department to turn away from planning a public interrogation with Clinton.
As negotiations with Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, Gowdy does everything to avoid the appearance of interfering in presidential policy-he doesn’t have an straightforward task, considering who he is dealing with. The 50-year-old Congressmen, a federal and state prosecutor earlier in his career, is observed by a federal judge and hate being marked as an ideologist.
Since the speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) knocked Gowdy to lead the Bengazi panel, Gowdy has repeatedly emphasized that he did not want to risk his reputation of a true legislator only on a trailer of a democratic heavyweight heavyweight-nawet if the hook is an alleged nomination as president of the president.
“It was always about getting facts … And the first thing you have to do is to determine that you have all the relevant documents,” said the adviser of the Republican Committee. “This is the only thing he is looking for. … it would probably be easier if he tried to be political, but not. “
When Clinton finally appears, she will have to balance the action between the highly focused act of presidential candidacy and candid as to the consequences of the Obama administration decision in Libya.
The Clinton camp knew since the Chamber voted in favor of establishing the Bengazi selection committee in May 2014 that the former Secretary of State would be asked for a testimony – and her allies on the hill have long predicted that her appearance would occur after her candidacy.
Clinton’s supporters claim that Clinton’s spectacle again testified under oath that Bengazi’s attacks would bring a return of Republicans.
Regardless, you should just go through various press messages of the Committee to see that Gowdy is accepted from Mrs. Clinton. He asked Clinton to hand over a private server outside to be analyzed, and her lawyers claim that it was not worth it, noticing that he was cleaned, along with all attached backup systems. The committee also wanted a prescribed interview with the former Secretary of State, and even said that the members of the committee – and the transcriber – came to Mrs. Clinton; This was also rejected. Then Gowdy’s request to make Clinton appear in front of the house panel twice, was partially incurred, and Kendall said they would agree to one show.
We do not know if this interrogation will be closed or in place outside the place. It is possible. A preliminary report on the progress of investigation published on May 8, on the anniversary of the established committee, it was noted that one of the biggest obstacles in the end of this investigation was Obama White House.
It seems unlikely that this committee avoids less than star optics of being excessive political during 2016 elections, but it could be Clinton’s strategy in its entirety to neutralize all questions about its judgment and presenting the committee as engaging in a witch hunt. At the same time, Clinton does not seem to be interested in answering the questions of the press, and its judgment and ethical compass have already been questioned due to foreign donations received from the Clinton Foundation.
In a separate note, speaking of the Clinton Foundation, the Federal Judge transferred the Department of State until September to be honored Foia requests Made by Citizens United. Citizens United filed a lawsuit in this matter:
The federal judge grants the Department of State until September to follow the application for a conservative group for files regarding correspondence between the best helpers with the former secretary of the state of Hillary Clinton and Clinton Foundation, as well as consulting activities involving former Clinton employees.
At the trial on Tuesday, US District Judge Emmet Sullivan said that he felt both parties in the case – the government and the Citizens United organization – were not pliant enough to break the path of the dispute over the freedom of information.
“You are unreasonable,” Sullivan told the lawyers of both sides. He said he understands that the State Department was “flooded” with her registration as a result of the apparition in March the exploit of the personal E -Mail account by Clinton as its only account when acting as a secretary, but this did not mean that this could still treat Citizens United requests , submitted last year.
“I can only imagine that you are dealing with requests, but now these are hot topics,” said Sullivan, appointed by President Bill Clinton.
The lawyer of the Department of Justice, Caroline Anderson, said that the state was fighting, and the speed of the Citizens United request means the slowdown of someone’s.
“The State Department is now overwhelmed,” said Anderson. “When the requests are [taken] Regardless of what affects other demanders. “
In the requests of Citizens United he was looking for documentation from the state of correspondence between the head of staff Hillary Clinton Cheryl Mills or deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin and staff at the Clinton Foundation, as well as communication between Abedin and officials of the consulting company Teneo. One request also asked for contact records between the former official of the State Department, Kris Balderston and the founder of Teneo Douga Band.
