In his opening statement before today's Benghazi hearing began, Select Committee on Bullshit Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) made it clear that he believes his colleagues demonstrated incompetence or negligence while investigating the attack on the American embassy in Benghazi.
At least five Republican-controlled committees issued conclusive reports during the previous session of Congress, including the Intelligence, Oversight, and Armed Services committees, but Gowdy says those committees were either "incapable or unwilling" to find the Smoking Gun.
"Even after an Accountability Review Board and half a dozen congressional investigations, these and other questions still lingered. These questions lingered because those previous investigations were not thorough. These questions lingered because those previous investigations were narrow in scope and either incapable or unwilling to access the facts and evidence necessary to answer all relevant questions."
I assume it must be news to the likes of former Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Issa (R-CA) that he was "incapable or unwilling" to pursue the facts. I wouldn't necessarily argue against idea that Darrell Issa is incapable, but he certainly wasn't unwilling.
This is a specious statement in and of itself, but it's even more baseless if you consider that seven congressional investigations conducted on both sides of the political fence reached more or less the same conclusions.
Gowdy is effectively accusing 5 House GOP-controlled committees and 2 Senate Democrat-controlled committees of letting Hillary Clinton off easy.
But I thought this wasn't about Hillary Clinton. If it isn't, exactly what questions have "lingered" that weren't already answered by 7 other committees?