The final report produced by the House Select Committee on Benghazi may not provide a final account of what happened the night of the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya.
“If you do a good enough job laying out the facts, the conclusions will either speak for themselves or you’ll have competing factual narratives and you can draw your own conclusions,” committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy told the Greenville (S.C.) News.
“It’s not my job to tell people what to conclude,” the South Carolina Republican added. “If you have two witnesses, [and] one says the light was red and one green, I don’t view myself as being the arbiter of who is more credible.”
The investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which claimed the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, has been going on for roughly a year. Last month, a panel spokesman said the final report may not be released until 2016, around the time presidential campaign season is in full swing.
In the meantime, Democrats have been criticizing the panel’s investigation, calling it a waste of time.
“If you do a good enough job getting every bit of information the fact-finder needs, they’ll be able to draw their own conclusions,” Gowdy said. “People are going to draw different conclusions. That’s fine.”
