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Trey Gowdy

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Trey Gowdy is a former U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district, serving from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Gowdy gained national prominence as the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, where he led investigations into the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. His tenure in Congress was marked by a focus on issues such as government oversight and national security. Prior to his congressional career, Gowdy served as a federal prosecutor and was known for his legal expertise and assertive questioning style during hearings.

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Oct 21, 2015

We should be genuinely trying to inquire about how we can gather more information.

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Oct 21, 2015

And the reality is that after 17 months we have nothing new to tell the families. We have nothing new to tell the American people.

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Oct 21, 2015

What they can't take, what they can't live with is when their government is not square with them.

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Oct 21, 2015

We are the greatest experiment in self-governance the world has ever known.

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Oct 21, 2015

We are going to find the truth, because there is no statute of limitations on the truth.

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Oct 21, 2015

Learning about the four people, two of whom you worked with and all four of whom we count as fellow Americans, is worth whatever amount of political badgering that may come my way.

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Oct 21, 2015

Your emails are no less or no more important than the emails of anyone else.

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Oct 21, 2015

Now, the chairman said, and he is a very good lawyer, and a good former prosecutor, we have a lot of former prosecutors here on the panel, he gave you a great recitation of the number of witnesses and the number of documents.

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Oct 21, 2015

Fact: What gave rise to your appearance here today was many months ago a group called the Stop Hillary PAC, which aired an offensive ad during the Democratic debate showing the tombstone of Ambassador Stevens.

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Oct 21, 2015

Well, probably not much of anything.

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Oct 21, 2015

the purpose of this committee is to prosecute you, and there'll be time enough for that in the next year.

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Oct 21, 2015

You can tell your family it's a terrorist attack, but not the American people.

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