Benghazi committee members squabble over final report

Republicans and Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi are sparring over how the panel's highly anticipated final report should be composed as the investigation enters its final few weeks.

After Benghazi Democrats last week demanded a role in drafting the final report, Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy accused the minority of selectively leaking information to the press in a letter explaining his reluctance to entrust Democrats with evidence from the investigation.

Gowdy noted Sunday in the letter he sent to Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee's ranking Democrat, that minority members are allowed to read transcripts of the more than 100 interviews conducted by the panel so far, but are not permitted to possess copies.

"This investigation has uncovered new information that will change how the public views what happened before, during and after the attacks in Benghazi," Gowdy wrote to Cummings. "Despite your best efforts to prevent it from happening, actually talking to eyewitnesses and actually accessing relevant documents has produced new information."

Benghazi Democrats have long condemned their own committee's work, accusing the majority of twisting the panel's work into a partisan attack on Hillary Clinton.