Former prosecutor and National Review contributing editor Andrew McCarthy can’t understand why the House Select Committee on Benghazi failed to release information on Hillary Clinton’s private e-mails for 6 months, accusing chairman Trey Gowdy of showing an “alarming disinterest” in the case.
In a piece entitled “The Benghazi Committee’s Belated Interest in Hillary’s Hidden E-mails,” McCarthy wrote that by not informing the public of Hillary’s private e-mail account and computer server, the Benghazi Committee was either “incompetent” or was designed “to get restive conservatives to pipe down.”
“I don’t think it’s either/or, I think it could be both,” he said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday. “But I think there’s an alarming disinterest in what a prosecutor, I think, would at least think of as relevant evidence.” Gowdy is a former prosecutor from South Carolina.
“It is about public accountability. But what they have said from the start is, they are going to approach this as a prosecutor approaches a criminal investigation,” McCarthy continued. “And I think that’s a wrongheaded approach. But whether I’m right or he’s right about that, the fact of the matter is, if you find out that a subject of your investigation is using private e-mail, you issue a subpoena for the e-mail!”
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