The Benghazi investigation is ramping up, and pressure is mounting on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s inner circle. Thursday a top staffer pleaded the fifth rather than appear before the House judicial committee, while later that day Clinton’s former chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, was being questioned behind closed doors.
Few details were released on the interview of Mills, but knowledgeable officials said the panel asked Mills about her role in preparing “talking points” for administration officials following the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
Questions also focused on a private email server Clinton used while serving as secretary of state and how it was set up.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., the committee chairman, described the meeting with Mills as professional and productive. Gowdy said the session would be treated as classified and declined to answer any specific questions.
Jake Sullivan, a former policy director and deputy chief of staff at the State Department, will be questioned Friday in what is expected to be a daylong session.
The interviews with Mills and Sullivan have been upstaged by a lesser-known character in the Benghazi saga, a former State Department employee who helped set up Clinton’s private email server. The former staffer, Bryan Pagliano, told the committee earlier this week that he will assert his constitutional right not to testify at a meeting set for next week.
Pagliano was a State Department employee from 2009 to 2013 and is now a private contractor working in the department’s Bureau of Information Resource Management, according to a department official who asked not to be identified when discussing personnel matters.
The special committee was established last year to investigate the Obama administration’s response to the Benghazi attacks, then widened in recent months to focus on Clinton’s private email account and server.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
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The attention devoted to the influence of the Obama “patsy,” Hillary Clinton, in the Benghazi debauchery continues to provide the desired distraction from the daily treason of Barack bin Obama and his entourage of subterfuge.
Chris Stevens was the Chief of the Benghazi CIA station. The CIA station at Benghazi was supplying weaponry to its mercenaries in the area, and coordinating transport to other areas. Why the CIA leadership decided to sacrifice Stevens may not be known by Hillary Clinton. The current, Moslem chief of the CIA is not going to reveal anything. The investigation by congressman Gowdy will accompish nothing substantive, regardless of Gowdy´s sincerety and legal skills. The focus on Benghazi and H. Clinton is more than likely guided by the CIA as a distraction from the support of ISIS by the Obama entourage. It is simply one, current element of the basic disinformation program of the CIA, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”– William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981) http://www.whale.to/b/casey_h.html