[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13829]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     BENGHAZI ATTACK INVESTIGATION

  (Mr. PERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, Under Secretary Kennedy made this statement 
at the House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting today:

       The Department has demonstrated an unprecedented degree of 
     cooperation and engagement with the Congress on these issues, 
     especially following the attack in Benghazi. To date, the 
     Department has provided to the Congress the classified ARB 
     report and more than 25,000 pages of documents.

  Secretary Kerry, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs 
Committee in April, also pledged coordination with the Benghazi 
investigation when he stated:

       I'm determined that this will be as accountable and open 
     State Department as it has been in the past and we will 
     continue to provide answers.

  So the question I have for each of them is this: Why do I have to 
hold in my hands a handwritten transcript of an email?
  Why is it that congressional investigators must hand-copy them under 
supervision from the other side, so to speak?
  Why can't we get the documents and copy themselves?
  Why must we subpoena everything?
  And why are they not in compliance with any of the subpoenas?

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