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Gowdy Benghazi panel to reconvene Dec. 10
BY EMMA DUMAIN, CQ ROLL CALL
December 3, 2014 | Updated 8 hours ago
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Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., is chairman of a special House panel probing the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE — AP
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WASHINGTON — True to his word, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., will convene a public hearing of the Select Committee on Benghazi before the year’s end.
The chairman of the special House panel tasked with investigating the September 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, announced Wednesday morning that a hearing will take place Dec. 10.
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Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Greg Starr, along with Steve Linick, the inspector general for the State Department, will be testifying.
Gowdy told CQ Roll Call last month that the committee would be active during the lame-duck session. Though it was created with much fanfare — and considerable controversy — in the spring, it has ultimately taken a lower profile than many had expected, with just one hearing taking place so far.
Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, recently announced that he would be reappointing Gowdy to serve as the chairman of the Benghazi committee in the 114th Congress, signaling that House GOP leadership thinks the job is far from over. The chamber will have to vote to reauthorize the whole committee early next year.
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ReplyDeleteRep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Wednesday promised the Select Committee on Benghazi that he chairs would continue to ask questions and hold more hearings next year, until all questions are answered about the 2012 attack in Libya that killed four Americans.
ReplyDelete“I also pledge that we’re going to keep asking questions until we have a complete understanding of what happened,” Gowdy said at a Wednesday morning hearing. “And to that end, we will have hearings in January, in February, in March.”
“And that means access to all the documents, and that means access to all the witnesses with knowledge,” he said. “This committee will be the last best hope for answering the questions surrounding these attacks in Benghazi.”
Gowdy’s committee has so far held just two hearings, and got off to what many saw was a slow start this year. But Gowdy has said not all of his work would be done in hearings, and that some would be done more quietly in order to hear more accurate information.
For many Republicans, the Benghazi committee is about figuring out how the Obama administration failed to secure the U.S. consulate against a terrorist attack, and why the administration initially failed to call it a terrorist attack. Officials first said an anti-Muslim video caused a spontaneous protest, but later withdrew that explanation after a few weeks.
Gowdy noted that the one person the U.S. has charged so far is being charged with a terrorist act, and said that shows the administration has come along way from its first explanation for the attack.
“We should not move on until there is a complete understanding of that and why the official position of our government is so different today than it was in the days and the weeks after Benghazi,” he said. “The facts haven’t changed. The evidence hasn’t changed. But the way our government characterizes Benghazi has changed a lot.”