Politico – by JAKE SHERMAN and LAUREN FRENCH
Speaker John Boehner is tapping South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy to chair a House select committee which will investigate the attack in Benghazi.
Gowdy, a second-term Republican, is a former federal prosecutor and has been a key figure in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s probe into the attacks.
“Trey Gowdy is as dogged, focused, and serious-minded as they come,” Boehner said in a statement. “His background as a federal prosecutor and his zeal for the truth make him the ideal person to lead this panel.”
House Republican leadership expects to vote this week on legislation that will create the panel. They will then announce the other members of the committee. There’s been significant behind-the-scenes jockeying to score a seat on Gowdy’s panel — Republican leadership has been fielding calls since Friday from interested members. Boehner (R-Ohio) is taking the lead in selecting lawmakers.
Gowdy said the committee will tackle the “unresolved questions about why the security was inadequate, our response during the siege itself, and our government’s interaction with the public after the attack. All of those lines of inquiry are legitimate and should be apolitical. Facts are neither red nor blue.”
Democrats have largely dismissed the probe as purely political theater.
Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, said Monday the committee is “unnecessary.” He said that he would urge his members to vote against the committee when legislation comes to the floor this week.
Hoyer said the Democratic leadership has not “made a determination” on whether they would appoint members to the committee. He said the panel was a “partisan messaging” activity.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/trey-gowdy-benghazi-panel-106346.html#ixzz311ZOCpAK
boner to gowdy
“here is your chance kid. your chance to be on the winning team. if you can make it look like an investigation without sending any actual criminal to jail and further divide the american people, we wont rape and murder your children. Dont get to popular or we will smear your wife on our crackers at the next bilderburg meeting.”
“Trey Gowdy is as dogged, focused, and serious-minded as they come,” Boehner said in a statement. “His background as a federal prosecutor and his zeal for the truth make him the ideal person to lead this panel.”
“Zeal for the truth…”
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
He wouldn’t be where he is if he weren’t a consummate liar like the rest of Congress.