WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Recent comments made by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and a former House Select Committee on Benghazi staffer raised concerns that the investigation into the deadly attack was politicized.
"We have 50,000 new documents, less than 5 percent have anything to do with Secretary Clinton. She’s an important witness, but she is one witness," Trey Gowdy said in an interview with CBS.
Clinton was in the last months of her service as state secretary when US Ambassador Christ Stevens and three US government employees were killed in the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.
"She's one out of the 70 [witnesses], I get that she gets more attention than the other 69," Gowdy stressed. "But frankly, if you ask me, the other eyewitnesses on the ground that night in Benghazi are more important to me as a former prosecutor than the secretary of state."
The committee’s nearly two-year $4.7-million investigation has emerged as an important campaign issue on the political right and a smear campaign perceived by the left.
On Friday, the committee questioned the Democratic party front-runner’s senior aide Huma Abedin in a closed 6-hour session.
Clinton is scheduled to testify before the committee on Thursday, October 22.
