The Gowdy Committee

It’s official. The House of Representatives will begin, at last, a consolidated investigation of the murderous attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.

The chairman of a select committee established yesterday for that purpose will be Rep. Trey Gowdy. He’s a former South Carolina federal prosecutor and tenacious cross-examiner of witnesses who seems well-suited to the exacting task at hand.

Already, the Obama administration, its allies on Capitol Hill and lapdogs in the press are decrying the Gowdy committee as a partisan witchhunt. Some are even urging that Democrats boycott it.

But remember many such critics are the same folks who insisted the attacks in Benghazi were due to a video, not jihadists, and then “what difference does it really make?” We’re about to find out.