Man who interrogates Clinton on Benghazi is veteran prosecutor

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BY VERA BERGENGRUEN

vbergengruen@mcclatchydc.com

WASHINGTON

The South Carolina prosecutor looked straight at the camera, relishing his role on an episode of the show “Forensic Files” as he discussed fingerprints, DNA testing and other evidence pointing to a murder suspect.

 

“You just don’t burn cars because they won’t start,” he said. “Unless you have something you want to hide.”

 

A year later, Trey Gowdy was elected to Congress, where his hard-nosed prosecutorial style is casting him in a much larger drama. At stake: his own reputation and the perhaps the political fate of a potential future president of the United States.

 

This Thursday, he will lead the high-stakes interrogation of Hillary Clinton over her role in the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. And Clinton won’t be the only one on the hot seat. Gowdy, the 51-year-old chairman of the House committee investigating the attacks, finds himself defending the panel against charges that it’s only a partisan Republican effort to derail Clinton’s presidential campaign.

 

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This Thursday, he will lead the high-stakes interrogation of Hillary Clinton over her role in the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. And Clinton

 

She made One phone call that night, then went home. She was Real Concerned.

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I think she will keep "Fact-Checker" busy.