It got a little fun as Trey Gowdy again showed this is not a witch hunt by: again putting Sydney Blumenthal on trial.
He's a bad guy because he's a Clinton friend, and works with David Brock.
So Gowdy starts reading cherrypicked part of Blumenthals' emails where he made a few catty comments about the Secretary Gates, etc, and declares he has a smoking gun.
It was then that it got good as ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings and Democrat Adam Schiff demanded that if Gowdy wants to dwell on Blumenthal's emails he should release the entire stack.
"The House Benghazi Committee deteriorated into a partisan shouting match between Chairman Trey Gowdy and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings on Thursday, leaving Hillary Clinton to lean back and smile as the two lawmakers traded blows."
"At times, Clinton seemed to revel in the battle between Gowdy and Cummings, who argued over how much information should be made public from the panel’s closed-door interviews. They honed in on longtime Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal, who offered frequent advice and intelligence to the former secretary of state via email, and was later subpoenaed by the committee."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/trey-gowdy-hillary-clinton-benghazi-215032#ixzz3pK6kUi8D
So some fireworks but we have learned absolutely no new information.
Rachel Maddow did a great job during the break pointing out that Bumenthal making a catty comment is smoking gun.
He's a bad guy because he's a Clinton friend, and works with David Brock.
So Gowdy starts reading cherrypicked part of Blumenthals' emails where he made a few catty comments about the Secretary Gates, etc, and declares he has a smoking gun.
It was then that it got good as ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings and Democrat Adam Schiff demanded that if Gowdy wants to dwell on Blumenthal's emails he should release the entire stack.
"The House Benghazi Committee deteriorated into a partisan shouting match between Chairman Trey Gowdy and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings on Thursday, leaving Hillary Clinton to lean back and smile as the two lawmakers traded blows."
"At times, Clinton seemed to revel in the battle between Gowdy and Cummings, who argued over how much information should be made public from the panel’s closed-door interviews. They honed in on longtime Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal, who offered frequent advice and intelligence to the former secretary of state via email, and was later subpoenaed by the committee."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/trey-gowdy-hillary-clinton-benghazi-215032#ixzz3pK6kUi8D
So some fireworks but we have learned absolutely no new information.
Rachel Maddow did a great job during the break pointing out that Bumenthal making a catty comment is smoking gun.
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