Pelosi Spokesman Statement on Released Benghazi Interview Transcripts

Washington, D.C. – Drew Hammill, spokesman for Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, released the following statement on the Benghazi interview transcripts released by the House Armed Services Committee this evening. The transcripts show that Republican attacks against the military are completely baseless: proving that there was no "stand down" order and that significant military assets were deployed on the night of the attacks.

"These transcripts prove that Republicans' Select Committee to Exploit the Benghazi Tragedy is nothing more than a circus to inflame the most extreme and conspiracy-obsessed elements of their party while raising campaign funds off the deaths of four Americans.

"The investigation by the Armed Services Committee clearly left no stone unturned, but House Republicans are planning to waste millions of additional taxpayer dollars on long-disproved conspiracy theories in the Select Committee.  Republicans' bankrupt priorities are on full display in this farce: they are now wasting more taxpayer funds per day than we spend on either the Veterans Affairs Committee or the Intelligence Committee.

"It is clear Republicans are not interested in the facts, or in respecting the memory of four dead Americans.  All Republicans want is to politicize a tragedy to distract the American people from their miserable record of dysfunction and obstruction.  Now the American people can see for themselves the depths of their cynicism."