Gowdy Grills Hillary Over Blumenthal Influence on Libya Policy

Trey Gowdy, the Republican chairman of the House’s select committee investigating the Benghazi attacks, spent several minutes at Thursday’s hearing questioning former secretary of state Hillary Clinton over the unusual advisory relationship she had with an old friend who had business interests iin Libya.

Gowdy’s line of questioning, which built on questions from previous Republican members of the committee, explored Clinton’s email exchanges with Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton friend who was blocked from taking a job at the State Department by Barack Obama. Blumenthal had been passing along information about Libya to Clinton on her personal email address.