The Benghazi Committee's Belated Interest in Hillary's Hidden E-mails

National Review ^ | 3/7/2015 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[Servant of the Cross]

Chairman Trey Gowdy knew about Clinton’s secret server six months ago, and that too is a scandal.

In assessing the Benghazi select committee headed up by Chairman Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.), there are two possibilities, and they are not mutually exclusive: (1) The committee is just a Potemkin probe erected by the Republican establishment to get restive conservatives to pipe down, and (2) the committee is incompetent.

The panel, of course, was commissioned by the Republican-controlled House to investigate the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2012, attack in which al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists killed Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans — information-management officer Sean Smith and two former Navy SEALs, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, contract employees whose valor saved dozens of lives during the siege.

The select committee’s ten sleepy months of operation have not warranted much attention — except to observe its lethargy. But questions about it arise thanks to the newly erupted Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. Mostly, it is one question: Why is the scandal newly erupted?

The Benghazi massacre was the lowlight of Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. Suddenly this week, the public was informed, for the first time, that during those four tumultuous years, she conducted State Department business through a private e-mail system designed to evade government record-keeping requirements. The scheme is redolent of Clintonian hypocrisy: (snip)

Gowdy let something else slip while unburdening himself to Politico: he and his committee have known since last summer that Mrs. Clinton conducted business by private e-mail.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I think he lost one case.

[InterceptPoint]

It could be that he lost one case. But I’ve read a couple of times that he didn’t.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

IIRC, I heard him talk about it on Greta. The only reason I remember is because he said it still bothers him, he should have won it. :)
Either way, lose 1 or none, he was a good prosecutor. I am trying very hard to keep my disdain for the rest of the GOP (with a few exceptions) from clouding my judgment regarding his committee.

[InterceptPoint]

I too have little respect for most of Congress. But we have Cruz and Trey Gowdy and, as you say, a few others we can count on. We need to give those few all the support we can which is why I spend so much time defending Gowdy against the naysayers..