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| Gowdy Pens Scathing Letter to Top Benghazi Committee Democrat |
| 2015-10-11 |
| First, Gowdy summons his prosecutorial vigor to absolutely demolish the ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Democrats have seized upon erstwhile Speaker-in-waiting Kevin McCarthy's ill-advised comments to try to shut down the panel's probe -- a continuation of their ongoing, partisan efforts to dismiss its focus as a "phony scandal" and to portray the investigation as a political witch hunt. Gowdy has been unsparing in his rejection of McCarthy's since-abandoned characterization and unflagging in his defense of the committee's work. In response to Democrat Elijah Cummings' endless attacks and accusations, the South Carolina Republican drops the hammer. Cummings, Gowdy continues, has been acting on duties "not to the American public, but to your Democrat colleagues and to the administration, including former Secretary Clinton," adding that he's disappointed in the Democrat's "complete lack of interest in gathering any facts." The letter goes on to ridicule Cummings for objecting to the release of some Clinton emails, noting that both Mrs. Clinton and Cummings himself have stated that all of the messages should be made public: "Only in Washington, DC can both the author of the emails and the ranking member of a committee call for the disclosure of all relevant emails and then complain that all relevant emails were disclosed." To put a finer point on it, Gowdy announces his intention to release another tranche of Hillary's emails pertaining to Benghazi and Libya. Several excerpts call into question the impartiality of the State Department's internal "Accountability Review Board" Benghazi investigation, but the biggest revelations expose the former Secretary of State's correspondence with Sidney Blumenthal. In a statement accompanying the letter, Gowdy makes some of his strongest accusations to date about the Obama administration's obstruction of the committee's work. "These messages should have been made public when the State Department released Secretary Clinton's other self-selected records on Libya and Benghazi, but there was a clear decision at the time to withhold this information from the American people and the Committee." Gowdy alerts Cummings that the committee "plans on releasing these new emails" next week and plans on questioning Mrs. Clinton about their contents on October 22. Stay tuned. The entire 13 page letter in pdf format can read here |
| Posted by:junkiron |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-10-11 18:07 |
| #2 And Iran Contra wasn't about going after Ronnie*? Boy, they can dish it out, but they can't take it. What makes more noise than a pig caught in a fence? Two pigs. *(ie an unindicted co-conspirator - what the hell is that? Either you have the evidence to indict or not. The presumption of innocents prevails.) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-10-11 07:51 |
| #1 Does Cummings read and write ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-10-11 02:10 |