Chairman Trey Gowdy of the House Select Committee on Benghazi is pictured. Benghazi committee receives new trove of documents from State

The House committee investigating the Benghazi terrorist attacks has received 4,000 pages of new documents from the State Department, according to congressional sources.

Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) is set to announce on Thursday that he has gained access to documents from the State Department Benghazi Accountability Review Board, the panel launched by the department after the attacks to probe the Obama administration’s response.


The documents were not reviewed by the other half-dozen committees that investigated the 2012 attacks.

“Contrary to those who said all had been asked and answered, the Benghazi Committee has shown there is more still for Congress to consider,” Gowdy said. “The committee will provide the final, definitive accounting of what happened with regards to Benghazi, reaching conclusions based solely on facts. Getting this production from State’s Benghazi ARB is an important part of ensuring the committee has access to all the facts.”

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the panel, said the papers from the ARB support the findings from the panel that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton never ordered troops to stand-down as the Benghazi complex was being attacked.

“Not surprisingly, the work papers support the unanimous findings of the Board, which identified no evidence to support claims that Secretary Clinton ordered a stand-down, personally denied security requests, oversaw a covert weapons program, or any of the other wild claims Republicans have been making for months,” said Cummings.

Congressional sources said the documents include emails, internal memorandums and interview summaries.

The committee has been seeking the documents since it was created by Speaker John Boehner last May. The State Department has been under subpoena from other congressional investigators for nearly two years to turn over the ARB documents and notes.

The Benghazi Committee has received thousands of pages from the State Department and Obama administration on the federal government’s policy in Libya and its military and public response to the attacks but is still seeking more interviews and documents.

The panel is also investigating Clinton’s email use during her tenure at the department. Gowdy has asked Clinton to appear twice before the panel to answer questions on her private email account and server and Benghazi.

Separately on Thursday, Cummings slammed a Republican-aligned group, the Stop Hillary PAC, for using Gowdy’s image for fundraising off the Benghazi attacks.