Mr. Gowdy responded with a letter of his own. “Whether or not they could have gotten there in time, I don’t think there is any issue with respect to that,” Mr. Gowdy said in the Fox interview. Why were you not positioned to do it?”Republicans say those are among the questions they want to ask General Ham and the other Defense Department employees they have asked to testify. “The Select Committee has been a taxpayer-funded attack against a presidential candidate by an opposing political party rather than an objective effort to seek the truth,” Mr. Cummings said. In a statement, the senior Democrat on the panel, Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, said he had no doubt about the Republicans’ true purpose.

Source: New York Times May 18, 2016 20:22 UTC