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bounty44 -> RE: 2nd Republican to admit Benghazi investigation was political (10/19/2015 3:50:07 PM)
Ambassador Stevens’ emails leading up to Benghazi attack will give you CHILLS; Gowdy says nobody cared quote: Countering claims that the House Select Committee on Benghazi is unearthing nothing new, its chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, indicated that none of the previous seven committees had bothered to obtain the late Ambassador Chris Stevens’ emails... “If you want a window into Libya and what was happening in the weeks and months before these four were killed, why would you not look at the Ambassador’s emails?” Gowdy indicated that the emails showed that Stevens began requesting additional security almost from the day he arrived in Libya, on June 7. “And on one occasion, he even joked in an email ‘maybe we should ask another government to pay for our security upgrades because our government isn’t willing to do it.’ So if you want to know what’s happening in Libya, you have to look at his emails,” Gowdy said. He was puzzled why then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is scheduled to appear before the committee Thursday, received numerous intelligence updates from Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal, but apparently ignored Stevens’ reports. “I want to know why certain things made it to your inbox, Madam Secretary, but the plaintive pleadings of our own ambassador, that you put in place, for more security never bothered to make it to your inbox,” said Gowdy.

Lucylastic -> RE: 2nd Republican to admit Benghazi investigation was political (10/19/2015 6:49:51 PM)
This week of the 2016 election is promising to be one of the strongest for campaign-related pseudo-events yet, as former secretary of state and presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton comes to Washington to face Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and the House Select Benghazi Hashtag Committee, in a synthetic battle royale for the ages. As is tradition in Washington, Gowdy is already setting the stage -- and managing expectations -- in a Politico interview, like so: “I would say in some ways these have been among the worst weeks of my life,” Gowdy said this weekend during a lengthy interview with POLITICO. “Attacks on your character, attacks on your motives, are 1,000-times worse than anything you can do to anybody physically — at least it is for me.” It's strange to hear Gowdy testify that attacks on his character are 1,000 times worse than actual bodily harm, considering that most of these "attacks" are merely Clinton loyalists defending her against his committee's charges that she's personally responsible for the deaths of four people. The remainder of Gowdy's extant torments are all coming in the form of self-inflicted wounds that have impaled his committee's credibility here at the outset of this climactic week. Now, Gowdy's taken his, "I just can't win" act to Politico, and the result is alternately tragic and comic. In fact, here's the most emblematic sentence in the piece: Gowdy worked behind closed doors for 18 months in an effort to keep the committee’s work out of the political fray. But his strategy started unraveling after three Republicans suggested the committee was aimed at hurting Clinton in the polls. Democrats pounced, newspaper editorials called for the panel to be disbanded, and now there are calls from commentators of all stripes for Gowdy to reveal what he’s uncovered. See, what makes this so ha-ha funny is that Gowdy didn't so much work "behind closed doors" to stay above "the fray," as much as he repeatedly leaked the committee's goings-on to Politico. And what makes this so boo-hoo sad is that his Republican colleagues keep selling him out as leading what amounts to a partisan witch hunt.

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