Trey Gowdy is blasting the State Department for continuing to stonewall on Benghazi, despite a congressional subpoena requiring them to at least name the documents they are claiming are confidential:
DC EXAMINER – Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, blasted the State Department Monday for refusing to name the documents it has withheld under vague “confidentiality” exemptions more than five weeks after a deadline to produce a list.
“For nearly a year and a half, the State Department has withheld documents and information about Benghazi and Libya from the American people’s elected representatives in Congress,” Gowdy said. “Whatever the administration is hiding, its justifications for doing so are imaginary and appear to be invented for the sake of convenience.”
The State Department had been ordered to hand over a list by May 18 of the documents it had refused to produce and explain the legal justification for withholding them.
But months after the select committee issued a subpoena for those records, State Department officials are still refusing to clarify what they are withholding and why.
“That’s not how complying with a congressional subpoena works, and it’s well past time the department stops stonewalling,” Gowdy said.
I’m sure the reason they are defying a congressional subpoena is more than just convenience, as they are likely hiding them so they don’t hurt Hillary’s chances of beating Trump. That’s gotta be what this is about.