WASHINGTON – Just days before former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify at a public hearing in front of the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) today joined CNN’s New Day to discuss the ongoing House committee investigation.
“They’ve had more than a dozen hearings on Benghazi in the House and the Senate, open hearings, classified hearings, and I don’t see that this select committee on Benghazi has done anything other than waste millions of dollars in taxpayers’ money in continuing to grind over the same ground.”
“I frankly think this is the worst sort of politically motivated fishing expedition at this point.”
“In both open and classified sessions, I’ve gone over the details of what happened, and although truly tragic, the incidents in Benghazi that cost the lives of four Americans, including our Ambassador, I don’t believe have been concealed through some conspiracy led by the Secretary. I think the real question ought to be why did the Congress not invest more in Embassy security, why have we not yet fully addressed some of the issues that were raised in the earliest hearings about Benghazi.”
Senator Coons also discussed the possibility of Vice President Joe Biden entering the 2016 presidential race.