The Benghazi Committee got into wine and guns, but it probably wasn’t quite this sexy (Photo by VitCOM via Shutterstock)

The House select committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks has been getting extra scrutiny since House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy let it slip that the committee’s true aim was Hillary Clinton’s political future.

The New York Times checked in on the goings-on of the committee whose supposed goal was to investigate the events that lead to one U.S. Ambassador being killed. The Times found that the committee, which has been at it for 17 months (longer than Watergate, the Times points out), has shifted gears. Now it’s main purpose seems to be “the politically charged issue of Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.”

Or maybe it’s just completely lost its way:

With the slow progress, members have engaged in social activities like a wine club nicknamed ‘Wine Wednesdays,’ drinking from glasses imprinted with the words “Glacial Pace,” a dig at Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland and the committee’s ranking member, Major Podliska said. Mr. Cummings used the term to question the speed of the committee’s work.

At one point, several Republican staff members formed a gun-buying club and discussed in the committee’s conference room the 9-millimeter Glock handguns they intended to buy and what type of monograms they would inscribe on them, Major Podliska said.