Gowdy not sure what Clinton is ‘taking responsibility for’ in Benghazi
Despite an 11-hour hearing with the former secretary of State on Thursday, the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi says he still isn’t sure which aspects of the 2012 terrorist attack Hillary Clinton is taking responsibility for.
“I think on some responses, there was a certain level of candidness, and on some responses — for instance, ‘What are you taking responsibility for?’ I frankly still can’t tell you what she’s taking responsibility for,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said Friday on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.”
{mosads}“Well, we heard for several hours yesterday that it wasn’t her, she was very clear about that, that she takes responsibility, but apparently not for the request for more security,” he added.
Gowdy said emails sent by Clinton shortly after the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, indicate that she knew the attacks were staged by al Qaeda affiliates.
He said Clinton often tells the American public one thing, but says something different in private.
“There’s this dichotomy between what we tell the American people versus what we tell folks in private,” Gowdy said.
“Also with the emails … we’re going to tell the American people that we turned over everything, but when it comes time to tell a judge, we’re going to use a bunch of lawyerly words that nobody understands what they mean,” he said, referring to the private email server Clinton held while secretary of State.
Gowdy said he will release all 54 transcripts of the witness testimonies from the investigation after they have been “cleared” of sensitive information.
“I went downstairs this morning, and I told my folks, send all the transcripts to be cleared, and when I say be cleared, I’m not going to have any identifying information that’s going to jeopardize anyone,” he said.
“If we’re going to release one, we’re going to release them all, because I want folks to see that this is a serious investigation into all aspects of Benghazi, and the best way to get that point is to look at all the transcripts, not one of them.”
He said he plans to finish interviews in the Benghazi investigation by the end of the year.
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