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I. Following the facts, avoiding leaks
II. Cheryl Mills and the Accountability Review Board
III. Sidney Blumenthal, Secretary Clinton’s primary advisor on Libya
IV. Sidney Blumenthal’s motivation revealed – money
V. The work of this Committee will continue
While it is unfortunate that for over seven months the State Department withheld nearly
1,900 pages of Secretary Clinton’s emails responsive to this Committee’s requests, our work
must go on. Simply because you have chosen to play politics with this Committee and the State
Department has chosen to play politics by shielding its former Secretary at the expense of the
truth does not mean that this Committee was founded on politics, is based on politics, or will
veer off course due to the political actions and allegations of others. We can be proud of the fact
that we have never had an unauthorized disclosure of any Committee document and, until your
detrimental actions earlier this week, had never had an unauthorized disclosure of any witness
testimony. The Committee has interviewed over 50 witnesses to date who have never before
been interviewed, and has plans to interview at least a dozen more across four executive branch
agencies after the upcoming October 22 hearing.
You may, and no doubt will, attempt to continue characterizing our motives however you
feel may be politically expedient for the Democrats. The fact is that while we have done what
we set out to do, much work still remains. The October 22 hearing is but one event in a series of
tasks that we must accomplish to conclude the fact finding portion of this investigation. There is
still time for you to join us in this endeavor. I hope you are finally able to rise above the political
pressures you face and remember why we are here: the promises we made more than a year ago
to the families of our fallen heroes. At the very least, they deserve our best efforts to answer the
questions with which they left us, and not t artisan bickering that you have displayed to date.