Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and the rest of the Republican Benghazi team
House Republican Benghazi Czar Trey Gowdy has finally gotten to the part of his
long, slow, partisan investigation where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears at a hearing—
possibly at two hearings. In a giant coincidence that in no way highlights the partisan witch hunt aspects of the Select Committee on Benghazi, these requests come right after Clinton announced her presidential run. And for all the Republican grandstanding about her secrecy, in the end, Gowdy was the one who wanted Clinton to answer questions in private:
The South Carolina Republican wanted a private, transcribed interview on Clinton’s email use and a public hearing on the terrorist attacks.
But Clinton had refused to appear in private to take questions on her use of private email while at the State Department. Her lawyer, David Kendall, had insisted that Clinton was prepared to take questions about her emails, the server that stored them and the Benghazi attacks during one public hearing.
Since she won't go along with his private interview thing—which you know the Republican presidential candidates would have spun into something sinister—Gowdy is now trying to make Clinton look unwilling to answer questions by demanding that she appear for two separate hearings: one on Benghazi itself and another, separate one on her email. It might be kind of funny watching Republicans try to make Hillary Clinton look like their caricature of her (while behaving as caricatures of themselves) if it hadn't been going on so long and wasn't going to keep dragging on for another 19 months at least.