WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 The House Benghazi committee has issued a subpoena to a senior Pentagon official who criticized the GOP-led panel for making costly and unnecessary requests to the Defense Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephen Hedger, an assistant secretary of defense, will be interviewed under oath next week. Hedger claimed in a letter to the committee that officials could not find one of the requested witnesses \u2014 a drone sensor operator who identified himself on talk radio as “John from Iowa” \u2014 despite expending “significant resources” to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The committee interviewed the drone operator this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Benghazi panel, said Hedger “will now have the opportunity to detail exactly what ‘resources’ he ‘expended’ and how.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee’s senior Democrat, called the subpoena an “abuse of authority.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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