That, you’ll recall if you’re old enough, was the original title of the 20-minute Special Report ABC News ran each night beginning November 8, 1979, four days after the Iran Hostage Crisis began. That’s the program which morphed into Nightline. The program ended in 1981 when the hostages were released.

The House Select Committee on Benghazi is still afloat, now in its 700th day. It has run longer than the Iran Hostage Crisis (444 days), longer than the 9-11 Commission (604 days), longer than either the Tower Commission which investigated the Iran-Contra scandal (87 days) or the Congressional Committee which did the same (93 days), and longer than the Watergate hearings (406 days).

Unlike any of those hearings, there have been no conclusions drawn by the Committee. It seems to be on political autopilot, its Chairman hoping against hope that someone, anyone, will provide it with a weapon which will destroy the former Secretary of State and current Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Seven separate congressional committees investigated the Benghazi attack before the Select Committee was even created. None of them found any wrongdoing. That was unsatisfactory to some Republicans, and they prevailed on then-Speaker John Boehner to convene a Select Committee. He did so on May 9, 2014, and it’s been in session off-and-on ever since, costing US taxpayers some $6.5 million so far.

The only way to be rid of this troublesome beast (to paraphrase Henry II of England) would seem to be to defeat enough Republican House Representatives in November to retake the majority.