Benghazi Panel, State Department Reach Deal on Documents

Sources confirmed to POLITICO that House Select Committee on Benghazi Republicans and the State Department have reached a tentative truce on document production, postponing what would likely have been a partisan showdown Wednesday.
The House Select Committee on Benghazi has called off a much publicized grilling of Secretary of State John Kerry’s chief of staff, Jon Finer, over the department’s pace of handing over Benghazi-related documents, in return for 5,000 pages worth of emails from Clinton’s top staff.
The production — which followed a “frank conversation” between Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and Finer a few days ago — will be the second-largest batch of documents the committee has received from State since the panel was convened to investigate the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya that left four Americans dead.