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You May Want to Sit Down for This… Trey Gowdy is Playing Politics

Call us crazy—this may be impossible to believe, given that the Benghazi Committee is the world’s most impartial, nonpartisan panel ever seated—but Trey Gowdy may be trying to deceive people into thinking Hillary Clinton isn’t the focus of his investigations. In fact, it’s perfectly clear from the record that Gowdy is playing politics with taxpayer funds for no other reason than to attack Hillary Clinton.

Shot:

Trey Gowdy: “I never mentioned (Clinton’s) name during a committee hearing.” [USA Today, 10/1/15]

Chaser(s):

He sure spends a lot of time talking about Hillary Clinton, though…

  1. Trey Gowdy: “If he is frustrated with the last two weeks, he needs to talk to Secretary Clinton.” [Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace, 3/15/15]
  2. Trey Gowdy: “We were interviewing witnesses that have nothing to do with Secretary Clinton when this story broke.” [Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace, 3/15/15]
  3. Trey Gowdy: “To the extent Democrats are frustrated, they should talk to Secretary Clinton, not me.” [Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace, 3/15/15]
  4. Trey Gowdy: “I am sure that Carville and Lanny Davis and Podesta, and Democrats like Adam Schiff and others who have already signed on with Secretary Clinton, I’m sure that they are very, very frustrated.” [Mike Gallagher Show, 9/8/15]
  5. Trey Gowdy: “The significance, John, is it undercuts the three main points that Secretary Clinton has made.” [CBS Face the Nation, 6/29/15]
  6. Trey Gowdy: “We very much need to talk with Secretary Clinton.” [CBS Face the Nation, 6/29/15]
  7. Trey Gowdy: “So you have Hillary Clinton’s top lawyer, top counselor, chief of staff, who spent nine hours in a committee room and she didn’t complain about a single question she was asked.” [Mike Gallagher Show, 9/8/15]
  8. Trey Gowdy: “One of those facts publicly revealed today was the use of personal emails by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”  [House Benghazi Committee Press Conference on Secretary Clinton Email Revelations, 3/4/15]
  9. Trey Gowdy: “We discovered former Secretary Clinton relied exclusively on private email accounts to send and receive emails.” [House Benghazi Committee Press Conference on Secretary Clinton Email Revelations, 3/4/15]
  10. Trey Gowdy: “The State Department cannot certify they have produced all of former Secretary Clinton’s emails because they do not have all of former Secretary Clinton’s emails.” [House Benghazi Committee Press Conference on Secretary Clinton Email Revelations, 3/4/15]
  11. Trey Gowdy: “The State Department is relying on Secretary Clinton herself and her attorneys and advisors to tell us and to tell you what emails they think are to be preserved.” [House Benghazi Committee Press Conference on Secretary Clinton Email Revelations, 3/4/15]
  12. Trey Gowdy: “The committee immediately subpoenaed Clinton personally after learning the full extent of her unusual email arrangement with herself.” [Select Committee on Benghazi Releases Clinton Subpoena, 7/8/15]
  13. Trey Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton had a statutory duty to preserve records from her entire time in office.”  [Select Committee on Benghazi Releases Clinton Subpoena, 7/8/15]
  14. Trey Gowdy: “Those who feverishly called for the public release of Secretary Clinton’s partial emails previously, the production of far more emails – thus contributing to the wholeness of the public record – should be embraced.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Rep. Cummings, 6/22/15]
  15. Trey Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all emails.” [Statement Regarding Subpoena Compliance and Server Determination by Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 3/27/15]
  16. Trey Gowdy: “Though Secretary Clinton alone is responsible for causing this issue, she alone does not get to determine its outcome.”  [Select Committee on Benghazi Formally Requests Clinton Turn Over Server to Neutral Third Party, 3/20/15]
  17. Trey Gowdy: “We have no interest in Secretary Clinton’s personal emails.” [Select Committee on Benghazi Formally Requests Clinton Turn Over Server to Neutral Third Party, 3/20/15]
  18. Trey Gowdy: “Many of the Democrats have already endorsed Secretary Clinton, their job as they view it is to protect her.” [Mike Gallagher Show, 9/8/15]
  19. Trey Gowdy: “Committee Members on both sides have been aware of concerns about classified emails within the self-selected records turned over by Secretary Clinton.”  [Statement by Chairman Gowdy on Reports of Classified Information in Secretary Clinton’s Emails, 7/24/15]
  20. Trey Gowdy: “The number of questions surrounding Secretary Clinton’s unusual email arrangement continues to grow.” [Statement by Chairman Gowdy on Reports of Classified Information in Secretary Clinton’s Emails, 7/24/15]
  21. Trey Gowdy: “Without access to Secretary Clinton’s personal server, there is no way for the State Department to know it has acquired all documents that should be made public.”  [Gowdy Statement on Clinton Press Conference, 3/10/15]
  22. Trey Gowdy: “As a credit to Speaker Boehner, I don’t think he’s every mentioned Hillary Clinton’s name to me in a single conversation I’ve had with him.” [Mike Gallagher Show, 9/8/15]
  23. Trey Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton alone created this predicament.” [Gowdy Statement on Clinton Press Conference, 3/10/15]
  24. Trey Gowdy: “These new messages in many instances were Clinton’s responses, which clearly show she was soliciting and regularly corresponding with Sidney Blumenthal.” [State Confirms Clinton Failed to Turn Over ALL Benghazi and Libya Documents, 6/25/15]
  25. Trey Gowdy: “Discussing Secretary Clinton’s exclusive use of private email with which to conduct public business is a necessary predicate to discussing the facts surrounding the terrorist attacks in Benghazi.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Clinton attorney, 4/23/15]
  26. Trey Gowdy: “The only reason that anyone is talking about Secretary Clinton is because of this unusual email arrangement that she had.” [Mike Gallagher Show, 9/8/15]
  27. Trey Gowdy: “The Committee will schedule a public hearing with Secretary Clinton.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Secretary Kerry, 5/14/15]
  28. Trey Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton rejected our request that she provide her server.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Secretary Kerry, 5/14/15]
  29. Trey Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton has insisted she will appear before our Committee a single time.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Secretary Kerry, 5/14/15]
  30. Trey Gowdy: I “respectfully disagree with his assertion former Secretary Clinton has answered all questions surrounding the unusual email arrangement she had with herself.” [Statement on Response from Clinton Lawyer, 4/22/15]
  31. Trey Gowdy: “On March 19, 2015, the Committee asked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to provide her personal email server to the Inspector General for the State Department.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Clinton Lawyer, 3/31/15]
  32. Trey Gowdy: “With no alternative but to request Secretary Clinton appear before this Committee for a transcribed interview to better understand decisions the Secretary made.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Clinton Lawyer, 3/31/15]
  33. Trey Gowdy: “The Committee is willing to schedule the interview at a time convenient for Secretary Clinton.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Clinton Lawyer, 3/31/15]
  34. Trey Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton’s refusal to allow the Inspector General to ensure the public record is complete is not only disappointing but portends to delay the ability of our Committee to complete its work.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Clinton Lawyer, 3/31/15]
  35. Trey Gowdy: “The Committee believes a transcribed interview would best protect Secretary Clinton’s privacy, the security of the information queried, and the public’s interest in ensuring this Committee has all information needed.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Clinton Lawyer, 3/31/15]
  36. Trey Gowdy: “We continue to believe Secretary Clinton’s email arrangement with herself is highly unusual, if not unprecedented.” [Chairman Gowdy letter to Clinton Lawyer,3/31/15]
  37. Trey Gowdy: “This confirms doubts about the completeness of Clinton’s self-selected public record and raises serious questions about her decision to erase her personal server.” [AP, 6/26/15]
  38. Trey Gowdy: “There are a million other things to pursue with respect to Benghazi other than Secretary Clinton.” [Politico Magazine, 3/12/15]
  39. Trey Gowdy: “There is no way to accept State’s or Secretary Clinton’s certification she has turned over all documents.”  [New York Times, 3/10/15]
  40. Trey Gowdy Press Release: Statement on the Release of Secretary Clinton’s Benghazi Emails, May 22, 2015. [Statement on the Release of Secretary Clinton’s Benghazi Emails, 5/22/15]
  41. Trey Gowdy Press Release: Select Committee Adds to Secretary Clinton’s Public Email Record, June 22, 2015. [Select Committee Adds to Secretary Clinton’s Public Email Record, 6/22/15]
  42. Trey Gowdy Press Release: State Department Fails to Answer on New Clinton Emails, June 23, 2015. [State Department Fails to Answer on New Clinton Emails, 6/23/15]
  43. Trey Gowdy Press Release: Gowdy Statement in Response to Clinton Comments on the Benghazi Committee, July 7, 2015. [Gowdy Statement in Response to Clinton Comments on the Benghazi Committee, 7/7/15]
  44. Trey Gowdy Press Release: Select Committee Confirms Date for Appearance by Former Secretary of State Clinton, July 29, 2015. [Select Committee Confirms Date for Appearance by Former Secretary of State Clinton, 7/29/15]
  45. Trey Gowdy Press Release: Gowdy Statement on Secretary Clinton’s Decision to Turn over Server to the Department of Justice, August 11, 2015. [Gowdy Statement on Secretary Clinton’s Decision to Turn over Server to the Department of Justice, 8/11/15]

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