Deb Mangold

Following the lead of @HillaryClinton's State Dept and Leon Panetta's Dept of Defense, it was now John Brennan's turn to slow-walk CIA documents to delay the work of the @HouseBenghazi Select Committee and hold back answers to the families of fallen Americans. On 11/19/14 the Select Committee requested #Benghazi related records that Brennan's CIA had already provided earlier to the the House Intelligence Committee for their investigation. The CIA responded, noting it was “working to try to set up a time next week when we could make the materials available.” They didn't make the materials available the following week. After the Select Committee repeated its request for CIA Benghazi documents on 12/8/14, a CIA representative responded: “I’ll check in with the folks who are working on that to see if we can make it all available next week.” Nothing happened. The Select Committee made a 3rd request, on 12/11/14, to review these documents. The CIA responded on 12/15/14, noting they would “reach out” to the Committee staff that would be reviewing the documents. The CIA never contacted the Committee. The Select Committee made a 4th request to the CIA on 1/8/15. On 1/12/15, the CIA responded noting they “have this request as a priority action. We are currently processing the documents.… We hope to have them ready for you in a couple of weeks." After a 3 month delay, the Select Committee finally received the Benghazi documents from John Brennan's CIA. They had already produced these documents earlier to the House Intelligence Committee, so there is no justification for the 3 month delay. It is ironic that John Brennan likes to present himself as a valiant patriot, yet led the CIA that deliberately slow-walked documents that were needed for the Select Committee to seek answers for the families of fallen Americans. When all is said and done, Brennan is nothing more than a partisan politician whose motivation was to protect the reputation of @BarackObama and himself above all else.