A Quote by Trey Gowdy on How Long Is Too Long for a Federal Investigation
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June 29, 2016
June 28, 2018
#TreyGowdy’s Benghazi Investigation lasts 2+ years. 13 months into the Mueller Investigation #Gowdy tells Rod Rosenstein: "Justice delayed is justice denied… Whatever you got, finish it the hell up." Click To Tweet
A Quote by Trey Gowdy on How Long Is Too Long for a Federal Investigation
THEN
June 29, 2016
- June 29, 2016
New York Times, June 29, 2016
House Benghazi Report Finds No New Evidence of Wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton
NOW
June 28, 2018
13 months into the Mueller investigation:
June 28, 2018 -
House Judiciary Committee hearing
Washington Post, June 28, 2018
Republicans berate Rosenstein and urge him to end Russia probe
Context
The House Select Committee on Benghazi investigation spent more than $7.8 million and resulted in no criminal indictments. The investigation lasted longer than federal investigations into Pearl Harbor, the JFK assassination, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, and 9/11.1The Guardian, June 28, 2016
House Benghazi report faults military response, not Clinton, for deaths
retrieved 6/28/182USA Today, Dec 12, 2016
House Benghazi committee files final report and shuts down
retrieved 6/28/18
In May 2017 former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed to head the Special Counsel investigation into Trump-Russia connections and obstruction of justice. Over its first 13 months up to June, 2018, the Mueller Investigation has issued more than 100 criminal counts against 20 people and 3 companies; 5 of those people – including 3 Trump associates – have pleaded guilty.3The Week, June 28, 2018
Trey Gowdy, who headed the Benghazi investigation for more than 2 years, claims Mueller is taking too long
retrieved 6/28/18
