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The Benghazi slow-walk: How to drag out an investigation for maximum political impact; Trey Gowdy's committee has been overloading the Pentagon with interview requests and hunting down Hannity callers
Topic Started: May 2 2016, 03:38 PM (236 Views)
Dem4life

At some point over the next few months, the House Select Committee on Benghazi will release its final report and we’ll finally get to see what committee chair Trey Gowdy and his pals have been up to these past two years. It’s been difficult to suss out precisely what the committee has been doing given that (contrary to Gowdy’s promises) it hasn’t held many public hearings, and the one “Interim Progress Update” it released last May focused largely on complaining about the pace at which executive branch agencies responded to the committee’s requests. That is actually a common theme in the statements released by the committee’s majority members, who insist that the only reason the investigation has taken this long is that the Obama administration keeps dragging its feet and refusing to produce documents and witnesses in a timely fashion.

Gowdy and the other Republicans make this claim to rebut allegations that the committee’s work has been deliberately pushed into an election cycle that features Hillary Clinton as the likely Democratic presidential nominee. Despite the boasting of Republican leaders in Congress, Gowdy maintains that his committee has no political motivation and is focused only on conducting a thorough inquiry focused solely on the facts. Well, another bit of evidence emerged this week that undermines Gowdy’s case and gives clues as to how the committee has abused its authority to drag out the investigation.

http://www.salon.com/2016/05/02/the_benghazi_slow_walk_how_to_drag_out_an_investigation_for_maximum_political_impact/
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coverpoint

I predict that they release their "Benghazi report" on July 25 - the first day of the Democratic National Convention; unless they can "trump-up" some undocumented allegations, in which case they will release it on November 6 - two days before the election.
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