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Yesterday, Florida Congressman Alan Grayson submitted a formal ethics complaint against Representatives Kevin McCarthy and Trey Gowdy for violating federal law and House rules by using the Benghazi Committee, and thus federal funds, for political purposes. The complaint is based on McCarthy’s appearance on Fox News with Sean Hannity on September 29, where McCarthy admitted that the Benghazi committee has been a sham meant to destroy Hillary Clinton’s chance of winning the presidential election. “This is a clear and unequivocal misuse of appropriated funds for political purposes,” Grayson wrote in his complaint, asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to...

The Agenda Project Action Fund launched a public demand campaign calling for a House Ethics Committee investigation into House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and the Benghazi committee. The Agenda Project Action Fund also launched a petition calling for the investigation, and it is gaining some traction online. You can sign the petition here. What’s more, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) has filed an ethics complaint against McCarthy and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chairman of the Benghazi committee. Grayson said that political nature of the Benghazi committee is the “new McCarthyism.” “This represents the new McCarthyism — the misuse of...

Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi have begun releasing details from one of the committee’s private interviews with a former Hillary Clinton aide. Republicans on the Select Committee, however, are refusing to release anything. Last week, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Fox News that the House Select Committee on Benghazi was created to carry out a political hit job on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Democrats also sent a letter to Republicans on the committee, calling out the party’s unfair portrayal of certain interviews and attempt to attack Clinton with unfounded and debunked claims....

Fox News had Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy appear on its station the other day in an effort to rehabilitate the legitimacy of the Benghazi Select Committee. Last week McCarthy admitted during a television interview that the committee has simply been a tool to harm Hillary Clinton, and try to pull off a fraud on the American public so that the GOP can capture the White House. In fact, the Benghazi Committee is the longest Congressional investigation in history, even longer than those for Watergate, the Kennedy assassination, and Pearl Harbor. Recognizing how devastating McCarthy’s admission is to the...

Republican House Speaker John Boehner still has a few weeks left of Congressional duties, and Senate Democrats have called upon Boehner to disband the House Select Committee on Benghazi. The call comes after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said the committee was designed for the specific purpose of damaging Hillary Clinton. During an interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday, McCarthy all but admitted that the Benghazi special committee was designed to hurt Clinton and that it’s part of why her presidential polls numbers are suffering. “We put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee,” said McCarthy “What...