Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)
As
promised, the House Benghazi Committee is calling in longtime Clinton friend and aide Sidney Blumenthal to tell them about memos on Libya he sent, as a private citizen, to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton shared Blumenthal's input with aides in the State Department, but expressed skepticism about the contents of some. And because committee head Trey Gowdy isn't missing any chance to expand his investigation and center it on Hillary Clinton, Blumenthal
got a subpoena on Tuesday.
Representative Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Benghazi panel, accused committee Republicans of grandstanding.
"There was no need for the Select Committee to send two U.S. Marshals to the home of Sidney Blumenthal to serve his wife with a subpoena, especially since the Committee never bothered to contact him first to ask him whether he would voluntarily come in. These heavy-handed, aggressive, and unnecessary tactics waste the time of the U.S. Marshal service," he said via email.
Heavy-handed, aggressive, unnecessary, and waste pretty much sum up the activities of the Benghazi Committee itself.