Posted on 10/26/2015 2:38:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
Benghazi Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy gave Hillary Clinton the option as to whether she wanted to testify in public or in private. She chose public, and it now seems he regrets that decision.
“I can just tell you, in the private interviews, there is never any of what you saw Thursday. It is one hour on the Republican side, one hour on the Democrat side, which is why you’re going to see the next two dozen interviews done privately,” he said.
“The private ones always produce better results.”
Instead of producing results or new information into the investigation in Benghazi, many argue that last week's hearing produced only partisan bickering and entertaining sound bites between Gowdy and Elijah Cummings, one of the Democrats on the panel.
The panel infighting unfortunately overshadowed more important exchanges between Clinton and the committee members. For example, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) revealed an email Clinton wrote to her family after the Benghazi ambush that proved that she knew it was a terror attack. Yet, Jordan reminded her, she told Americans it was the result of a YouTube video. The committee now had proof that the former secretary of state knowingly misled the public. It should have been front page news. Instead, outlets replayed Gowdy vs. Cummings all day.
In short, the committee appeared more intent on fighting one other than getting answers from their witness. Clinton, as a result, left the hearing in one piece.
Gowdy has to be frustrated that a year and half's work has been jeopardized in the past few weeks. He had already been on the defensive in the aftermath of GOP Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's comments that the Benghazi committee had a political agenda.
As for how the committee's most visible witness performed last week, Gowdy said she offered little substance.
“Did she cooperate in answering the question? Yes. Was it an accurate answer? No.”
Everyone could be correct. All they have to do is stop lying to themselves about the evidence in front of their eyes.
Why FR still has people glorifying Gowdy I will never understand.
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I don’t see anyone “glorifying Gowdy” but I see a lot of people trying to cut his throat. Whose side are you on anyway?
Ever hear the old saying about not changing horses in the middle of the stream? If you cannot see the progress being made by the hearings, you are not paying attention, IMO.
I’ll never understand men and women that are lawyers and prosecuters, acting in those capacities, that don’t actually prosecute a criminal
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My first and favorite law professor many long years ago told me that a case is not usually decided on a one major point, but that the better offense or defense is to pile up as many points as possible even though some may be trivial they will count in the long run. I think that’s Gowdy’s goal.
He can pardon her now whether she's been indicted or not. Just like Ford did for Nixon.
Trey proved conclusively, beyond any shadow of a doubt, they Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama manufactured the video story and lied to the American people and to the world
This lie inflamed and incited riots across the Muslim world that killed hundreds and perhaps thousands of people, destabilized at least two strategic allied countries in the region and resulted in many American and European Embassies being assaulted and some were destroyed.
It is likely that chaos and violent riots were The desired effect intended by the Obama admin to cover up Benghazi
It is looking like the video was part of a preplanned Obama Admin false flag operation that either misfired or was launched prematurely to cover for Benghazi
initially so much confidence in Trey Gowdy.
Once again, misplaced faith in republican, anything.
Hillary and Obama are a perfect example of a “culture of corruption that rises to the top ranks of the Party”. The media “scandals” about the GOP in 2006 were a bunch of sour grapes phony outrage. Tom DeLay’s prosecution was purely political witchhunt and eventually was cleared.
The press and donors who back Hillary in 2016 are balled faced liars. Then again, Stalinists lie. ALWAYS
I completely agree with you.
Great point.
“Are you kidding? Gowdy and Issa couldn’t catch the clap in a cut-rate whorehouse.”
I like this one : )
But they both got many hours of TV face time, which is all they wanted from the outset.
“Why FR still has people glorifying Gowdy I will never understand.”
Oh yes you do understand.
LOL
Then by all means show me anything positive here that he has done. He let Cummings run wild in the media and he let his own party ensure that Hillary got made into a victim of evil vast right wing conspirators. And all he has to show is a sternly worded letter no one read.
Your hero worship of this fraud is damaging your country. Stop doing it. Do like so many people here promised once upon a forgotten time and hold his feet to the fire, not enable his Kabuki.
How DARE you accuse me of Hero Worship? You are 0ne of those my way or the highway antagonists. I believe we have to play the cards as they are dealt.
In no way, shape or form has this committee been able to function normally or smoothly. What has happened has been indecent!
Requests for information have been blocked by the STATE DEPARTMENT,PRESENT ADMINISTRATION, AND THE ALPHABET BUREAUCRACIES. OUTRAGEOUS ATTEMPTS TO PAINT CLINTON AS SOME KIND OF GODDESS BY THE CORRUPT MEDIA haven’t helped.
Regardless of the ILLEGAL evasions and downright lies, Democrats continue to play every trick in the book to support Hillery.
NEVERTHELESS, FACTS continue to be pulled out and placed before the people which is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than shutting down the committee which will happen if Republicans do not support Gowdy and the continuing pursuit of the truth.
Those who stand with Gowdy to continue the slogging, difficult, frustrating journey towards the WHOLE TRUTH will eventually be rewarded. Those who yell and scream that nothing has been accomplished reveal themselves to be nothing but loud mouthed Democrat-Lite supporters of letting Hillery off the hook.
Any woman who has born a child after nine months of frustration, inconvenience, pain, and difficult, knows that ROME WASN’T BUILT IN A DAY!
Because you’re blatantly doing it. And no I don’t give the smallest damn if that upsets you. I am sick to death of people turning existential issues for this country into Kardashian style entertainment.
These frauds allowed Dems to set the terms and the rules, run wild across the media spreading lies with nothing but the most token rebuttal, and only on rare occasion, and lets face a simple fact...Gowdy did nothing about any of it but write a sternly worded letter no one read. No one was thrown off that committee.
Yes you are most assuredly hero worshiping defending this enabling incompitent. He has done nothing but enable Hillary and everyone involved with Bhenghazi to skirt any concrete action and in fact let his own party get away clean with sabotaging his so called work.
Careful there.Evidently you scorn a dissenting opinion based on your knowledge of the Kardashians. Sorry, but I don’t watch trash and wouldn’t know if a Kardashian walked past me on the street. So you can cut out your insults.
So lets just set a few things straight. I disagree with Trey Gowdy on several things,which hardly makes me a hero worshipper, but that is beside the point. I do not see how anything can be improved by disbanding the committee which attitudes like yours can make happen. Throwing jerks like Cummings off would be nice, but dream on.
I am willing to give the latitude necessary for the remaining witnesses to be heard and the very recently obtained emails to be analyzed. You, like most of the instant pudding world want your pudding right now. Your impatience could be the ruination of the entire project.
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