The
House Select Committee on Benghazi, a 17-month investigation into the
2012 consulate attack in Libya, has long been accused of being a
partisan witch hunt. Now a former staffer is complaining about its
extracurricular activities.
Over the course of the ongoing Benghazi Committee investigation ‒ so far, a month longer
than that of Watergate and counting ‒ there were bound to be some ebbs
and flows to the committee’s workload. However, it is how they took
advantage of that downtime that is raising questions over the point of
keeping the committee in business.
Seven Democrats joined Republicans in voting to create the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee. http://j.mp/1L8b59p
The @HouseBenghazi Select Committee’s membership is less partisan than others created in the past. http://j.mp/1L8b59p
Wine Wednesdays
The committee has not held a public hearing since January 27, but that hasn’t kept its members from meeting up on a weekly basis. They’ve formed a wine club, nicknamed “Wine Wednesdays,” in which they drink from glasses imprinted with the words “Glacial Pace,” Major Bradley F. Podliska, a committee investigator who was fired in June, told the New York Times. The customized goblets are a dig at Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), who used the term in May to complain about the committee’s lack of urgency in completing its task.
“At every turn, the Select Committee comes up with a new excuse to further delay its work and then blames its glacial pace on someone else,” Cummings said in a statement at the time.
Benghazi gun-buying club
Wine Wednesdays are not the only social aspect of the Benghazi Committee. Its members have also set up a gun-buying club. They used the committee’s conference room to discuss the 9mm Glock handguns they wanted to purchase, Podliska said. A favorite agenda item for the club was the type of monograms that they wanted inscribed on the firearms.
The committee has not held a public hearing since January 27, but that hasn’t kept its members from meeting up on a weekly basis. They’ve formed a wine club, nicknamed “Wine Wednesdays,” in which they drink from glasses imprinted with the words “Glacial Pace,” Major Bradley F. Podliska, a committee investigator who was fired in June, told the New York Times. The customized goblets are a dig at Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), who used the term in May to complain about the committee’s lack of urgency in completing its task.
“At every turn, the Select Committee comes up with a new excuse to further delay its work and then blames its glacial pace on someone else,” Cummings said in a statement at the time.
Benghazi gun-buying club
Wine Wednesdays are not the only social aspect of the Benghazi Committee. Its members have also set up a gun-buying club. They used the committee’s conference room to discuss the 9mm Glock handguns they wanted to purchase, Podliska said. A favorite agenda item for the club was the type of monograms that they wanted inscribed on the firearms.
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