Today’s Benghazi Committee hearing isn’t the first time a House Committee was employed as vehicle for political attacks on Hillary Clinton, one that’s cost taxpayers roughly $4.5 million.
Congresswoman Barbara Comstock helped lay the groundwork for today’s attacks. During her time working as a “professional Clinton Hater” who “made her name digging up dirt on the Clintons,” Congresswoman Comstock’s overtly partisan work investigating the Clintons cost taxpayers millions of dollars, but yielded little results.
REMINDER:
- Salon: Comstock a “Professional Clinton Hater” who Investigated them “Zealously.” In March 2008, Salon described Comstock as a “professional Clinton-hater” who had “investigated both Clintons zealously in the 1990s while working for Dan Burton’s House committee.” [Salon, 3/26/08]
- Comstock “Made Her Name Digging Up Dirt on the Clintons.” In 2014, Politico wrote that Comstock “made her name digging up dirt on the Clintons … Clinton allies worry that if Comstock wins and Hillary Clinton returns to the White House as president, she’ll reprise her role as Clinton investigator-in-chief.” “She was the primary architect and energy behind Dan Burton’s investigations of the Clintons,” said [Clinton deputy Attorney General Jamie] Gorelick. “When you meet Barbara Comstock, she’s very personable and lovely. But the work of that committee was highly divisive, and it was not a constructive way of running a congressional committee.” [Politico, 7/24/14]
- Comstock’s Investigations Into Clintons “Ultimately Yielded Little.” According to Politico, “Comstock’s investigations into the Clintons ultimately yielded little, but her career in politics was just taking off.” [Politico, 7/24/14]