From Daily Kos:
TREY GOWDY:
Well, Chuck it was a voluntary interview. I didn't send the subpoena to Secretary Clinton. It was a voluntary interview, and she wanted it to be in public. I wrote a letter several months ago giving her an option. And she chose public. And that's well within her right.
I can just tell you that of the 50-some odd interviews we have done thus far, the vast majority of them have been private. And you don't see the bickering among the members of Congress and private interviews. You don't see any of that. So the venue that is most constructive--
Given Gowdy's committee's history of selective out-of-context leaks and irrelevant questions (see: Blumenthal, Sidney), of course they want to do this shit in secret! Just last week we saw what happens when the light of day is shined on their proceedings: A jumbled mess of conspiracy theories, irrelevant tangents, and politically-motivated attacks.
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