'Very Clear': Leader McCarthy's Benghazi Admission

The Hillreports today that GOP Leader McCarthy continues to face blowback from his disturbing admission that Republicans launched the Benghazi Committee to play politics with taxpayer money:

McCarthy faces more questions on Benghazi

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) faced another day of tough questions about his controversial characterization of the House Benghazi committee as a political tool, saying he "could have been more clear."

…some colleagues are unnerved by his comments last week on Fox News, where he seemed to suggest Republicans had launched the special panel charged with investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, simply to hurt Hillary Clinton's poll numbers.

…"I've been very clear about this. And don't use politics to try to change this around."

Leader McCarthy is right: he has been very clear about the political motives of the Select Committee.  In fact, on the same day of his ‘accidental' admission to Sean Hannity, Leader McCarthy made the very same confession about the Select Committee to Jake Tapper of CNN:

"So that's why, within a Select Committee—think of this, when you look at the poll numbers of Hillary Clinton, they've dropped; unfavorables – pretty high…

Would you ever have found that out had you not gathered the information from the Benghazi Select Committee?" [9/29]

There you have it: in a single day, Leader McCarthy admitted twice that the Benghazi Select Committee represents nothing more than Republicans playing politics with taxpayer money.  Leader McCarthy couldn't have been more clear.