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.”
Coverup Bukkaki also applies.
This could be media spin.
Next hearings may be private, but they may also be classified and the boom coming down on Miss. “I don’t knoooooooow. Whatever do you mean?”
Maybe the FBI has given them something to work with.
Not stupid. Complicit.
Mr Daryl Issa might take issue with that.
Letting her take the oath in private set the tone of “respect” for the hearing......complete nonsense.
Republicans think and behave like Stockholm Syndrome survivors, they can’t help but side with their enemies.
All for good press. What idiots.
Gowdy did his best and if you REALLY listened to/watched the hearing, you'd KNOW that.
I believe McCarthy coordinated his “blunder” with Hillary.
Alot of things should have been front page news the last seven years.....the news business is as corrupt as the Clinton's they cover....
GO AWAY GOWDY
I know all about Gowdy, and I doubt you do.
100% fail in all committees.
I agree.
Heh... But who is the one getting their face plastered.....
Oh, All of us Constitutionally minded peasants.
Nevermind.
” I don’t don’t why conservatives worship the doofus. He is BFF’s with Linda Graham, is a MASSIVE amnesty supporter and was campaigning with Jeb Bush this weekend.”
I didn’t know he was campaigning with Jeb, but pardon me if I’m not shocked : )
No.
The video and abandonment were the act, for the purpose of keeping the "al Qaida is on the run" narrative alive and thus to win the election. That battle was lost in November 2012.
What we want is the motive, and we're almost there, but it must be built carefully. Sid Blumenthal's request to Hillary for us to take out Ghadaffi so that he could cash in for BP is one motive. Zero's desire to destabilize the Arab world and the Middle East for his eschatological purposes is the other. So the big questions all revolve around his approval to supply material aid to an al Qaida affiliate, a statutory enemy of the United States, for the purpose of initiating an illegal war with a profit motive.
That's treason sir, by legal definition. Nor is either the Hildabeast nor Commander Xero exempt from the charge after 1/21/16.
I believe he is trying to nail the beotch but WAS hindered by the camera's and the public exposure ...
I think he was correct to think it might blow up back at him
Gowdy is OVER HIS HEAD!!!!!
Sadly, MOSt AMericansnever expected the VILENESS and EVIL that make up the CLINTONS!! BUT TREY....YOU ARE DUMB!!
Gowdy is disgusted and I don’t blame him!
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