Trey Gowdy on Federal Investigation Length

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

Trey Gowdy Federal Investigation Length Then
Trey Gowdy Federal Investigation Length Now


#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

Trey Gowdy Federal Investigation Length Then
After more than two years of investigation the Trey Gowdy-led House Select Committee on Benghazi releases its report to the public.
- June 29, 2016

New York Times, June 29, 2016
House Benghazi Report Finds No New Evidence of Wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton

(retrieved 6/28/18)

NOW

June 28, 2018

Trey Gowdy Federal Investigation Length Now

13 months into the Mueller investigation:

“If you [Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray] have evidence that this president acted inappropriately present it to the American people. There’s an old saying that justice delayed is justice denied. I think right now all of us are being denied. Whatever you got, finish it the hell up, because this country is being torn apart.”
June 28, 2018 -

House Judiciary Committee hearing

Washington Post, June 28, 2018
Republicans berate Rosenstein and urge him to end Russia probe

(retrieved 6/28/18)
starts at 4:59


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 6/28/18
2USA 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