Meanwhile, in the interview, Van Susteren persisted.
“Aren’t you curious why he was meeting with the Turkish diplomat?”
Gowdy sidestepped the question and then made personal judgments about what may have happened.
“I am curious why he was there, but I am curious why we as a country were in Benghazi. The ambassador loved Libya, and he particularly loved the people of Benghazi. We may ultimately find out that there is no more nefarious explanation other than the fact that our ambassador loved the people of Benghazi.”
Van Susteren continued pressing: “I am not even suggesting nefarious. But it seems to me, I’m just suspicious because I haven’t gotten a lot of information, as to whether there is some sort of a covert operation. Because you’ve got a huge presence of the CIA and State Department in that particular place with very limited security. So naturally I am a little suspicious,” she said.
She continued: “[H]e meets with a Turkish diplomat, and we never hear why he meets with a Turkish diplomat before he is killed. I am not suggesting Turkey is up to no good. But I just don’t think that we have all the information.”
Amazingly, Gowdy again gave his personal opinion, indicating a possible bias on the issue. “I honestly think that at the end of that analysis we are going to find that he and the Turkish diplomat were friends.”
Gowdy continued: “[Y]ou and I live in a world where people want to find something that is harder to understand than just a simple fact that he loved the people there. He was friends with the Turkish diplomat.”
In making his determination for why Stevens went to Benghazi, Gowdy seems to be ignoring numerous key reports and statements.
Sen. Graham has previously stated that Stevens was in Benghazi to keep weapons caches from falling into the hands of terrorists. And ABC News reported that Glen Doherty, one of the Americans killed during the Benghazi attacks, “told ABC News before his death that he was working with the State Department on an intelligence mission to round up dangerous weapons in the war-torn nation.”
Regarding the Turkish connection, numerous establishment news outlets reported that the largest procurement of weapons from Libya were shipped from Benghazi to Turkey for the Syrian rebels days before the Benghazi attack.