WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A war of words was underway Tuesday after congressional Republicans, including Indiana Congresswoman Susan Brooks, released their final report on the Benghazi attacks.
The investigation has loomed large over Hillary Clinton, who was serving as secretary of state when four Americans were killed there in 2012.
A Clinton campaign spokesperson called the investigation, which has gone on for four years, a political sham. The White House says Republicans have hunted for a conspiracy and come up with nothing.
Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi disagreed.
"Nothing could have reached Benghazi because nothing was ever headed to Benghazi," said Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina).
The report, which featured 80 new interviews about the deadly attack, concluded the White House is to blame because of a slow response.
"Washington had access to real-time information, but that information didn't inform or instruct decisions made in Washington," Gowdy said.
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Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign said the report, which took two years and cost $7 million, politicized the deaths of four Americans.
Democrats have long said its goal was to undermine the former secretary of state's presidential bid.
"This is a committee that has gone on longer than the 9/11 Commission, than the committee designated to look at Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, the Iran-Contra Affair, and Watergate," said Deputy White House Press Secretary Eric Schultz.
Brooks disagreed, saying getting answers was crucial to Americans' security overseas going forward.
"This is failed American foreign policy," Brooks said. "It was failed American foreign policy since the beginning, and that is because we've learned and, as the President even said, the worst thing we did was not planning for the day after. He's indicated the worst mistake of his presidency was not planning for the day after Gaddafi fell. It is failed policy. We failed these American people."
