Rep. Trey Gowdy: He Might Take Hillary Clinton's Word On Disputed E-Mails
WASHINGTON — South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, who heads the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks that left four Americans dead, says he might be willing to accept assurances under oath from Hillary Clinton that she has provided all her relevant emails to the panel — dropping requests for an independent examination of her computer server.
"If she were, under some theory, able to say, 'yes, I can promise you under penalty of perjury you have every single document you're entitled to,' that would probably shut off that line of inquiry," he told Capital Download. "If she can, then it will be a short conversation."
Congressional Democrats accuse the special committee of being little more than a GOP fishing expedition aimed at damaging the former secretary of State — and possible future Democratic presidential nominee — even though a half-dozen previous congressional inquiries already have examined the attacks that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
But on USA TODAY's weekly video newsmaker series, Gowdy, 50, insisted he was approaching the inquiry not as a partisan but as the federal prosecutor he once was, arguing it already has broken new ground.
The three-term Republican congressman said the panel recently completed interviews with the five State Department officials who were on the ground in Benghazi — only one previously had been interviewed in a congressional inquiry — and is "wrapping up" interviews with CIA employees who were on the scene. None of them previously have been questioned by Congress.
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