Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
Hmm. Hmmmm. Rep. Trey Gowdy, the chair of the House Benghazi Committee, on
the conditions under which he would drop his attempts to look through Hillary Clinton's email server:
"If she were, under some theory, able to say, 'yes, I can promise you under penalty of perjury you have every single document you're entitled to,' that would probably shut off that line of inquiry," he told Capital Download. "If she can, then it will be a short conversation."
This doesn't feel like a situation where being suspicious of where he's going with this is rank cynicism. Because it's Trey Gowdy, who has been
slow-walking his investigation to bring it into the election cycle, taking longer than investigations into trifling matters like Hurricane Katrina response and 9/11. Because Democrats on the committee have complained that
they're being excluded from key pieces of it. Because Republicans are
fundraising off of the Benghazi committee. Because believing that a House Republican is going to quit beating a dead horse is never, ever a good idea.