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TexasTowelie

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Thu Oct 6, 2016, 06:39 AM Oct 2016

The Benghazi Committee is done, but Trey Gowdy isn’t finished with Hillary Clinton

WASHINGTON -- The Benghazi Committee released its final report in June, but Rep. Trey Gowdy is far from done with Hillary Clinton.

Through committee hearings, and regular television appearances to discuss them, the South Carolina Republican has remained the Democratic nominee’s chief antagonist in Congress in the months leading up to the election.

It was the investigation by Gowdy, as chairman of the Benghazi Committee, that accidentally uncovered Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state. Democrats criticized the two-year Benghazi probe as a “partisan witch hunt” that ultimately did not pin the blame on Clinton for the 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor, defended the impartiality of his committee and said it was about “the facts and only the facts,” not politics.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article105739426.html

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The Benghazi Committee is done, but Trey Gowdy isn’t finished with Hillary Clinton (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP
He misses his 15 minutes of fame... True Dough Oct 2016 #1
He should have stayed in SC and continued on "Forensic Files". sinkingfeeling Oct 2016 #2
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