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Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

Trey Gowdy’s Former Top Lawyer Undercuts The Benghazi Committee

Author:     Michael McAuliff
Source:     The Huffington Post
Publication Date:     05/16/2016 12:01 am ET
 Link: Trey Gowdy’s Former Top Lawyer Undercuts The Benghazi Committee
Stephan:   The Congressional zombie movement that is the Republican chaired Benghazi committee never dies, never accomplishes anything meaningful, but lumbers on. This is the sort of thing that the Republican House spends its time on. Is it any surprise that people have nothing but contempt for Congress. Here is the latest, even a Republican lawyer who worked on the committee has had enough.
House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, before the start of the committee's closed-door hearing. The House committee is looking into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya and is interviewing former CIA director David Petraeus as the investigation enters its third calendar year, and a presidential election year. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh

House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. Credit: Susan Walsh/AP

WASHINGTON — Shortly before the House Benghazi committee ramped up its battles with the Department of Defense in its probe of the 2012 terrorist attack, the committee’s own top lawyer admitted at least four times in interviews with military officials that there was no more they could have done on that tragic night.

That’s according to a letter obtained by The Huffington Post that is being sent Monday to the chairman of the committee, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), from the top Democrats on the Benghazi panel and the House Armed Services Committee, Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Adam Smith […]

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