Representative Trey Gowdy's oversight of the Congressional select committee has been expensive, futile and wasteful. It has represented one of the most blatant examples of naked partisanship in our country's history; members of the GOP have publicly stated that the committee's main raison d'être has been to damage Secretary Clinton's reputation and presidential campaign. It's been slightly satisfying that Mr. Gowdy and his cohorts have been slapped down at every turn.
Yet here's the puzzling thing: How could Mr. Gowdy let himself get sucked into this empty rabbit hole? Consider that he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Baylor University where he was a member of Kappa Omega Tau, a fraternity that actually does a lot of public service. He then went on to the University of South Carolina where he earned his J.D. law degree. He clerked for a judge on the South Carolina Court of Appeals and then for a US District Court judge. Following private practice, he was named a Federal prosecutor. And before he was elected to Congress, he was the US 7th Circuit Solicitor. I've outlined his history because these accomplishments are significant and required tremendous work and intellectual effort.
So, if he's smart enough to build that professional experience, how could he be so dumb to think that he could lead an investigation into the 2012 Benghazi attacks and discover a smoking gun against Secretary Clinton when numerous previous investigations had failed to do so? His activities have been nothing but foolish and he's let himself look like a dolt.
His abuse of the taxpayers' money and waste of time and productivity have been unconscionable. He's conducted himself in questionable, self-defeating and silly ways that will follow him for years. And when his committee releases their report, probably in the month before the election, it'll most likely be a partisan screed that will drop like a lead balloon. What could he have thought he would accomplish?
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