{"id":163325,"date":"2015-07-02T18:32:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=163325"},"modified":"2015-07-02T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:32:46","slug":"clinton-campaign-calls-benghazi-panel-charade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/clinton-campaign-calls-benghazi-panel-charade\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton campaign calls Benghazi panel a &#8216;charade&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign has denounced the House Select Committee on the 2012 Benghazi attack as a \u201ccharade.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a video released on Wednesday, the Clinton campaign accuses the committee and its Republican chairman of wasting taxpayer money on politics.<\/p>\n<p>The video says the Benghazi Select Committee is \u201cspending $8,000 a day in taxpayer money to keep digging\u201d things about the attack on the US diplomatic compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi that left four US diplomats, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow long will Republicans keep spending tax dollars on this political charade?\u201d it says.<\/p>\n<p>The video puts together clips, mostly from Fox News, where anchors comment on the incident or question politicians on the committee\u2019s motivations.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News anchors reveal that the committee\u2019s report will be postponed until 2016 and ask Representative Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the committee, why questions to former Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal about Clinton&#8217;s 2008 campaign were \u201crelevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/07\/02\/418487\/Hillary-Clinton-Benghazi-attack-charade\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign has denounced the House Select Committee on the 2012 Benghazi attack as a \u201ccharade.\u201d In a video released on Wednesday, the Clinton campaign accuses the committee and its Republican chairman of wasting taxpayer money on politics. The video says the Benghazi Select Committee is \u201cspending $8,000 a day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-163325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-politics","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}