There’s a bloody surprise! After House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy let the cat out of the bag a couple of weeks ago when he told the media that the Committee’s aim was to hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances to win the Presidency in 2016, today comes news that a former investigator for that committee plans to file a wrongful termination suit against it. He says he tried to do a comprehensive investigation of the Benghazi attack and was told to focus on Mrs. Clinton’s email server.

Is anyone really surprised by that assertion? It’s been evident for months.

The NYT has prepared a detailed account of the committee’s activities, and there are some damning facts included.

The committee has conducted only one of a dozen interviews that Mr. Gowdy said in February that he planned to hold with prominent intelligence, Defense Department and White House officials, and it has held none of the nine public hearings — with titles such as “Why Were We in Libya?” — that internal documents show have been proposed.

At the same time, the committee has added at least 18 current and former State Department officials to its roster of witnesses, including three speechwriters and an information technology specialist who maintained Mrs. Clinton’s private email server.

I think it’s safe to infer that Gowdy and his committee stopped being interested in Benghazi seven or eight months ago and became much more interested in slanting public opinion against her. Look at that witness roster: how would an IT maintenance specialist know anything pertaining to the attack in Libya? Likewise speechwriters; how would they know?

That doesn’t include the all-day grilling of Mrs. Clinton’s friend Sidney Blumenthal, in which there were asked “270 questions related to his business activities in Libya. He was helping a private businessman pursue deals there. The committee asked him fewer than 20 questions about the Benghazi attacks.”

What a slimy bunch of toads. Toads with expensive habits: this exercise in political arson has cost you and me, fellow taxpayers, over 4 million bucks so far.