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Gowdy Grills Hillary Over Blumenthal Influence on Libya Policy

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2:24 PM, OCT 22, 2015 • BY MICHAEL WARREN

Trey Gowdy, the Republican chairman of the House’s select committee investigating the Benghazi attacks, spent several minutes at Thursday’s hearing questioning former secretary of state Hillary Clinton over the unusual advisory relationship she had with an old friend who had business interests iin Libya.

Gowdy’s line of questioning, which built on questions from previous Republican members of the committee, explored Clinton’s email exchanges with Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton friend who was blocked from taking a job at the State Department by Barack Obama. Blumenthal had been passing along information about Libya to Clinton on her personal email address.

In her testimony, Clinton claimed that the advice from Blumenthal was “unsolicited” but later said that the missives were only unsolicited in the beginning of their exchange.

Watch the entire exchange, in two videos, below:

https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/gowdy-grills-hillary-over-blumenthal-influence-libya-policy_1051070.html

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Gowdy: Fired Benghazi panel staffer decided to ‘run to the press’ after failed effort to get money

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Published October 12, 2015
FoxNews.com

The leader of the Republican-led special Benghazi committee tried Sunday to discredit a former staffer’s claim that he was fired for not joining in a partisan-driven effort to tarnish Hillary Clinton, saying he never even spoke to the ex-staffer.

South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said he never met with the staffer, investigator and Air Force Reserves officer Bradley F. Podliska, and that Podliska was, in fact, warned about his own efforts to discredit Clinton, who was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

“Because I do not know him, and cannot recall ever speaking to him, I can say for certain he was never instructed by me to focus on Clinton, nor would he be a credible person to speak on my behalf,” Gowdy said.

He also said Podliska has never mentioned Clinton — from when he was counseled about his “deficient performance” to when he was fired and through the entire legal mediation process.

Furthermore, Gowdy said, Podliska has “run to the press with his new salacious allegations” after failing to get money from the committee.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/12/gowdy-fired-benghazi-panel-staffer-decided-to-run-to-press-after-failed-effort/?intcmp=hpbt2