Kevin McCarthy's careless answer to a reporter's question for sure was a mistake. Not because he said anything specific that was damaging, but because what he said could be easily spun to indicate that the Benghazi hearings are a purely political tactic of the Republicans. Democrats love this opportunity to spin because "the vast right wing conspiracy" in these hearings is a line they have been using since the tragic 2012 event.

While this misstep by Mr McCarthy is an unfortunate turn of events, it will not change the current activity and Select Committee investigation into the Benghazi attacks or improve Hillary Clinton's Presidential ambitions. What happens October 22nd will. This is the day that Mrs. Clinton has agreed to testify before the House Select Committee.

The media will parrot this politicization line in lock step with the Democrats as they always do and they will regularly use the defense that there have been 6 or 7 investigations already, none of which returned any wrongdoing of Hillary or the State Dept. And, this House Select Committee investigation is just a Republican show as Mr. McCarthy said.

Here are the previous investigations they site, however, each DID have something negative to say or revealed conflicting or incomplete reports:

• Five House Committees (Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, Judiciary, and Oversight and Government Reform) initiated their own inquiries soon after the attack. The Republicans on these five House Committees delivered an interim report to the Members of the House Republican Conference on April 23, 2013. The interim report, which contains the conclusions of the Republican majority staff, signed only by the five Republican chairmen of those committees ... was critical of the Obama Administration's actions before, during, and after the attack. On August 1, 2014 the House Intelligence Committee, concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, but that news briefing given by the administration reflected the conflicting intelligence assessments in the days immediately following the crisis.

• Additional congressional hearings were conducted May 8, 2013 with three "whistleblower" witnesses: Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant Secretary of State for counterterrorism; Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya; and Eric Nordstrom, former regional security officer in Libya.

• State Department Accountability Review Board. The investigation report was released December 20, 2012. It was seen as a sharp criticism of State Department officials in Washington for ignoring requests for more guards and safety upgrades, and for failing to adapt security procedures to a deteriorating security environment. "Systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels.

• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) and Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-ME) opened an investigation in mid October 2012. Their final report ... [said] "there was a high risk of a 'significant' terrorist attack on U.S. employees and facilities in Benghazi in the months before the September 11, 2012, assault on the Mission, and the State Department failed to take adequate steps to reduce the Mission's vulnerability."

But, it was new information, not politics, that brought forth the current investigation.On May 8, 2014, House Speaker John Boehner announced the United States House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, voting 232-186 — 225 Republicans and 7 Democrats in favor. This was the result of State Department documents released on April 29, 2014. These documents, including a cache of previously unreleased emails "that House panels had been unable to receive even after issuing a subpoena," were obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): one document in particular, an email written by a White House adviser, has been labeled by conservatives as a "smoking gun". We will see on October 22nd when Mrs Clinton testifies before the Select Committee if this is real or show. Stand by!