and he complained about attacks on the committee. his argument would be more compelling if republicans weren t leading the charge. as we all know, kevin mccarthy, speaker boehner s close friend, they established the select committee to drive down secretary clinton s poll numbers. democrats didn t say that. second in the house said that, republican. richard hanna said the select committee was, quote, designed, designed to go after secretary clinton. one of the chairman s own hand-picked investigators, a self-proclaimed conservative republican, charged that he was fireded in part for not going along with these plans to, quote, hyperfocus on hillary