When it was announced that Hillary Clinton was being asked to testify behind closed doors to Trey Gowdy’s committee investigating Benghazi, I assumed the veteran prosecutor had a strategy.  The testimony will be under oath and taken down by a stenographer, so it will be on the record, but the American people will not be watching. Perhaps the idea is to use the more relaxed environment to get Mrs. Clinton to open up?  That hardly seems likely.  More plausible is the notion that she will not have at her disposal demagogic tactics, such as her famous rant, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” – which seemed to cow her interrogators at the time, though it has taken on a life of its own as a defining moment for her. But I think most probably, the closed-door interview will explore detailed and potentially tedious questions and get Mrs. Clinton on the record, under oath, for use when public testimony is later heard.  Distractions...(Read Full Post)