House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman 席达雷尔伊萨 (R-Calif.) on Tuesday released inaccurate talking points to explain in Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attacks on all State Department documents subpoena.
"The State Council has not lived up to the government's broad and clear commitment to working with Congress, therefore, left me no choice, only through subpoenas, forcing the State Department to produce relevant documents," Issa said Secretary of State John Kerry's letter.
Issa needs, including in particular the long-term confidant of Hillary Clinton and Cheryl Mills Philippe Reines produce any documents and internal communications. Democrats accused Republicans eager to use the tragedy paralyzed Clinton's rumored 2016 presidential aspirations.
Republican lawmakers are seeking from 10 current or former senior State Department officials, including Reines and mills of documents and communication Issa's letter to Kerry, until June 7 Production Committee.
For months, the Republican Party has smashed the Government's handling, September 11, 2012 attack that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. In mid-May, U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the Republican onslaught as the "political circus."
Most are concentrated in the Assembly Republicans criticized the requirement to explain to the public the tragedy spread of national security secrets are not talking points. Talking points drafted by the CIA and other agencies of the State Council by the White House oversight of the process, erroneously described the attack grew spontaneously out of the demonstration.
In his letter, Issa group attack, Ansar Islam, Beth Jones Near Eastern Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary, said she had told the governor of Libya a day after an e-mail attack, said: "Yes belonging to Islamic terrorists. " Drafting talking points at one point, the document stated that the Group's leadership has denied ordered the attack, but not that of some of its members may take part. The final version did not include this.
Issa said that the focus of discussion is the process of being cleaned "the Committee under investigation," the heart and the panel, to see who else, if anyone shaped process.
Issa did not say why his recent public management and production Issa Committee explanation provided in the email skeptical. When the U.S. State Department spokesman Nu Lande (Victoria Nuland) against "armed members of Congress, began to media that we ourselves do not do that because we do not want to make assertions injury investigation."
"Why should we refer Faansaer mountain Islam, when we do not think they do, until we have survey results? '" She asked. "
Republicans have pounded the State over Nuland warnings in the same e-mail, including the CIA in Benghazi past extremist threat warning "could be abused Members do not pay attention to the IAEA warned so why not beat the State Department, we To feed? attention ...... "
Issa told Kerry said: "The talking points of publicly available information to create cherish State Department criticism from political attacks, government officials interested in appearance."
In response, the U.S. State Department said it provides "an unprecedented level with Congress," but said it would comply with the latest requirements halted.
"The State Council remains committed to working with Congress, we will take any new or outstanding stock information requests and determine the appropriate next steps," said spokesman Patrick Ventrell said in a statement emailed to reporters.
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