Pompeo: Benghazi committee 'obstructed at every turn'

By Sarah Westwood, Sarah Westwood

Published December 20, 2015

Rep. Mike Pompeo, a member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Hillary Clinton will likely be asked about who she contacted on the night of the attack when the former secretary of state appears before the panel for a highly-anticipated interview Thursday.

"I expect we'll have many questions about all of the U.S. government's response post-incident — that is, after the first news of the attack on the compound reached our government officials in Tripoli and then in Washington, D.C.," Pompeo said Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."

"I expect we'll have many questions about who acted, who spoke and why it was the case that the response was insufficient to address the needs of the men on the ground," he added.

The Kansas Republican doubled down on recent comparisons of the Benghazi investigation to the congressional probe of the Watergate scandal in 1973, arguing the former is in some ways worse than Watergate.