republicans have been pursuing one benghazi investigation after another for 19 months, in at least 50 congressional hearings, they have asked the same questions over and over and over. that includes this hearing in the house select committee. former acting cia director michael morrell was called to the hill for a third time today. he testified about the now debunked theory that the benghazi talking points given to susan right rice soon after the attack were deliberatery doctored. >> we did not deliberately downplay the role of terrorists in the benghazi attack in our analysis or in the talking points. >> in response to a democratic inquiry, the pentagon now says that at least six congressional investigations of the benghazi disaster have cost americans an unspecified millions of dollars