Rep. Gowdy to Obama: 'You come here and testify'
11/21/12 10:51 AM ET
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Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) issued a challenge to President Barack
Obama Wednesday, telling the president that if he was actually looking
to defined U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over the administration's
handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, he should come to Congress
and testify himself.
"Instead of talking up for Susan Rice, I'll make a deal with the president. You come in her place and answer questions," Gowdy said during an appearance on Fox News.
"For them to go after a U.N. ambassador who had nothing to do with Benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmirch her reputation, is outrageous," Obama said.
But on Wednesday, Gowdy said that even if Rice was unaware of the possibility the attack was terrorism, the suggestion that the YouTube video had been responsible remained problematic.
"It's not just what she didn't say, it's what she did say," Gowdy said. "She may not have known it was al Qaeda. There is no evidence it was a video. There is no evidence it was spontaneous. So it's not just what Susan Rice wasn't told, it what's she affirmatively told the American people, which is demonstrably false."
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