Posted on 10/22/2015 11:14:02 AM PDT by lbryce
Chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi Trey Gowdy wasted no words while explaining clearly and convincingly the purpose of the committee’s investigation and the reason former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was called to testify on Thursday.
“Madame Secretary, I understand some people — frankly in both parties — have suggested this investigation is about you,” Gowdy said in his opening statement. “Let me assure you it is not. And let me assure you why it is not. This work is about something much more important than any single person. It is about four U.S. government workers, including our Ambassador, murdered by terrorists on foreign soil. It is about what happened before, during, and after the attacks that killed these four men.”
The chairman was clearly seeking to refocus the public’s attention on why the committee was established following Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s gaffe late last month, which Hillary Clinton and supporters used to argue the Republicans are mainly seeking to hurt her presidential bid through the investigation.
“Not a single member of this Committee signed up for an investigation into you or your email system. We signed up because we wanted to honor the service and sacrifice of four people sent to a foreign land to represent us – who were killed – and do everything we can to prevent it from happening to others,” he said.
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Is that a boy or a girl?
Well, what was the doctor’s pronouncement when it was born would be a more up to date question...
Excellent.
I ran into a guy, a few weeks back, who told me WalMart was run by criminals.
OK.
So, what was he doing at the time?
CHECKING OUT WITH HIS WALMART PURCHASES.
I’ll bet the Chinese and the Russkies got to it......
Bookmark
Please understand that there is a clientele on FR that considers anything short of a public flogging, followed by eviseration and hanging a failure.
At work, not watching it, but I notice a distinct split on this forum — “Gowdy is wonderful! Killing her!”
“Gowdy has nothing and could not convict Hitler in Jerusalem.”
Wish I knew who to believe.
IMO Goudy has done a great job, but anyone under Obama’s protective wings is safe.He controls about everything.
She's being protected by the Obama administration. At least until now.
Even if she did nothing illegal, she was incompetent before, during, and after the attack, and then tried to cover her tracks. That is of interest to the majority of voters. No one ever claimed it would be of interest to 100% of the voters.
Trey Gowdy is doing a great service for this country, and the massive effort is burning him out, which is why he is leaving office. I for one am very grateful for his efforts.
The obama administration aren’t the only ones with skin in this game.
And I repeat. Nothing will be done.
Score!
Simple. Not Hillary.
I get the impression from her that she is just a lil ole gramma that is not that tech savvy....except in knowing how to wipe her disc with a clothe...so she must be very overwhelmed trying to keep up communicating effectively on all those dagum devices
I’d consider further adjudication to be relevant.
This hearing will be it.
Enjoy it while you can. You will never hear the benghazi or email server memes again when they’re done. Unless it’s to flog the conservatives for living in the past.
You hope.
No.
I ‘hoped’ in the 90’s when the pubbies took congress.
Their total inaction against ANY of the corruption (Loral, campaign finance, on and on and on) of the Clintons taught me that they were either terrified of the consequences of action or in on the game themselves.
Ya. Important distinction though.
Not winning every battle is your reason to give up. Fine, you’ve given up.
It’s not a good reason to try to take down a good man like Trey Gowdy who is fighting a good fight right now.
Strange how you keep telling us to give up the fight against Clinton and Obama and then criticize those who are actually fighting them. Strange indeed...
you are an ignorant person
we at FRee Republic pushed hard to get Clinton impeached and the Republican House did just that
“Not winning every battle is your reason to give up. Fine, you’ve given up.”
Name ANY Clinton corruption battle the Republicans have won over the past 20 years.
Name ANY action that pubbies have taken against the Clinton Corruption machine over the past 20 years other than ‘hearings’.
I’ll wait.
“we at FRee Republic pushed hard to get Clinton impeached and the Republican House did just that”
And then what?
What *meaningful* actions did they take to DO anything about his actions?
Nothing.
Because most of the ones in charge of the pubbies had the EXACT same problem as Clinton. And Clinton and Hillary KNEW it too.
So, ask yourself why the pubbies haven’t done anything about Benghazi before now.
And when we can expect *meaningful* actions to be taken against those involved.
And not just ‘hearings’ that can be used as talking points to elicit sympathy from the LIV’s.
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