Jake Tapper Pushes Trey Gowdy: Why Doesn’t the GOP Care About Faulty Iraq Intel?

‘Do you see why people might say, “why is [Benghazi] more important than that war?”‘

Tapper Pushes Gowdy: Why Doesn’t GOP Care About Faulty Iraq Intel as Much as Benghazi? (Mediaite)

The chairman of the select committee soon to be established to investigate the Benghazi attack, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), joined CNN host Jake Tapper on Wednesday to discuss how that investigation might unfold. After conceding that Gowdy was not in Congress at the time, Tapper pressed him on why Republicans seem more concerned about the intelligence failures that led to the Benghazi attack and not those that led to the Iraq War. 

Tapper began by playing a portion of a clip from former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell who said that his local station chief provided him with three possible explanations for the attack in its immediate aftermath, one of which was an inflammatory video.

Gowdy said that Morell personally made changes to the Benghazi talking points, which were aimed at casting the White House in a “more favorable light.” When Tapper asked if he did not believe Morell was telling the truth, Gowdy paused but eventually said that he did not.

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