"What about her high school yearbook, can we get that? Maybe she has an embarrassing quote."
It turns out that Rep. Trey Gowdy's (R-SC) committee meeting with Clinton friend and adviser Sidney Blumenthal didn't really have many questions for Blumenthal over
Benghazi!. They were far more occupied with his connections to Media Matters and other groups that (shudder) have been
being very rude about Trey Gowdy's committee of late.
A particular focus during Tuesday’s closed-door deposition was a network of groups founded by Clinton enforcer David Brock that — POLITICO has learned — paid Blumenthal more than $10,000 a month as they defended Hillary Clinton against conservative attacks, first while she was secretary of state and then as she prepared for and ultimately entered the presidential campaign. [...]
In addition to Blumenthal’s role at Media Matters, he was involved with the Brock-founded groups American Bridge and Correct the Record, he worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and then afterward at the [Clinton Foundation.]
Well yes, but that's not about
Benghazi. That's not even about Blumenthal sending emails to Hillary Clinton about
Benghazi. Are they just going to be interviewing individual Clinton supporters until they find something they can pin on someone?
How focused were they on these connections, rather than any Benghazi-specific questions? Pretty darn focused:
[S]ources told The Huffington Post that it was several hours into Blumenthal's deposition before Republicans actually asked about the attacks. Blumenthal's congressional inquisitors posed roughly three times as many questions on his associations with the Clinton Foundation -- the charitable organization tied to the former first family for which he was a paid consultant -- as well as his work for Democratic-campaign institutions such as Media Matters and Correct the Record, than on the Benghazi attacks.
As Simon Maloy observes: "This doesn’t really sound like someone who’s focused intently on figuring out why four Americans died in Benghazi. It sounds more like someone who’s trying to dig up embarrassing information about a political figure. Gowdy isn’t investigating Benghazi; he’s using Benghazi as his pretext to investigate Clinton."