'Excellent!' John Boehner announces Rep. Trey Gowdy will head select committee to investigate Benghazi

South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy’s name had been floated as the likely choice to head a select House committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks and subsequent Obama administration response.

Today, Speaker of the House John Boehner made it official:

RT to share the news: have chosen @TGowdySC to serve as chairman of #SelectCommittee on #Benghazi pic.twitter.com/lPsYZGxW5V

— John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) May 5, 2014

Those interested in unearthing all the facts about the Benghazi attack applauded the choice:

@TGowdySC WILL chair the select Committee investigating #Benghazi. A truth-teller to uncover the truth. The families deserve it. So do we.

— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) May 5, 2014

https://twitter.com/galaxyalpha/status/463365525880725504
https://twitter.com/Alyssafarah/status/463364791063838720

It's nice to know that a pit bull like Trey Gowdy will be giving the I'm so much smarter than you are crowd something to think about.

— John Q. Public, MSA (@OHenrysStepchld) May 5, 2014

Gowdy will attempt to force the Obama administration to live up to its unfulfilled promise of historic levels of transparency. No easy task.