"This investigation has never been about former Secretary of State Clinton and never will be," current Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday, according to The Washington Post. Boehner was referring to the House's Benghazi investigation, which a different Republican linked to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this week.
Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who has been jockeying to get the Speaker job that Boehner will vacate this month, mentioned Clinton and the investigation in a Tuesday interview. He was speaking on Fox News with Sean Hannity when he made the comments. "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?...But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee, what are her numbers today?" McCarthy said in the interview, according to The Huffington Post.
These remarks would seem to suggest that the Benghazi investigation was a political maneuver. "It makes the whole operation practically an unethical operation. I think the Republicans should shut it down," former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said of the ongoing investigation.
"The American people deserve the truth about what happened in Benghazi. That's always been our focus, and that's going to remain our focus," Boehner said Thursday, according to Fox News.
