Posted on 12/19/2017 2:25:33 PM PST by SSS Two
Several hours into an interview with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Tuesday threw cold water on his own speculation that McCabe’s days at the bureau might be short-lived.
In an interview last week, Gowdy told Fox News he would be “a little bit surprised if [McCabe’s] still an employee of the FBI this time next week” — setting off a firestorm of speculation that his firing might be imminent.
As late as Tuesday morning, Gowdy told reporters that "it's not 2 o'clock yet" and "I hope he's there at two" when asked if he believed McCabe should remain at the FBI. His remark appeared to suggest that McCabe could be on his way out before his scheduled interview.
But Gowdy told The Hill his remarks were based on nothing more McCabe’s request to reschedule an interview that had been set for last week. In the past, he said, such circumstances have resulted in barriers to witness testimony.
McCabe on Tuesday convinced Gowdy that the scheduling snafu was nothing more than “a good faith error,” he said. The deputy director was always planning on appearing today, he said, and “I take him at his word.”
Asked by The Hill if he was hinting that McCabe would be dismissed or resign from the bureau by Tuesday, Gowdy said, “I probably was, but I was probably wrong.”
“Fairness is not always rewarded in my line of work, but I probably should have waited to hear his side of it.”
McCabe arrived at the Capitol Tuesday afternoon to face a grilling from the House Intelligence Committee on a number of Republican priorities, including how the bureau may have used a controversial dossier of opposition research into then-candidate Donald Trump; and alleged bias at the FBI.
“Andrew McCabe cuts across every facet of every investigation in 2016 that your viewers are interested in from Secretary [Hillary] Clinton’s emails to the investigation into the Trump campaign,” Gowdy told Fox News on Tuesday.
McCabe, a career appointee under former director James Comey, has long been a Republican target, in part because of political donations his wife received from Democratic governor and Hillary Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe.
But McCabe skyrocketed back into the public view after a series of texts from a former member of special counsel Bob Mueller’s team became public. He disparaged political figures of both parties in the texts, including Trump, whom he once called him an “idiot.”
In another one of the texts, the agent, Peter Strzok, seems to refer to an “insurance policy” against Trump winning the 2016 election.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office - that there’s no way he gets elected - but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” Strzok texted on Aug. 15 of last year. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
Some reporting has since suggested that Strzok was urging a thorough pursuit of the agency’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, underway since July.
Heightening the speculation launched by Gowdy's original remarks, a handful of other Republicans have called for McCabe to either be replaced — a long-held desire of Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) — or subpoenaed to appear before Congress to address what some GOP members see as anti-Trump bias within the FBI.
“The chairman of the Judiciary Committee is going to subpoena Lisa Page,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Fox Business Network on Tuesday, referring to the woman to whom Strzok sent the texts. “... He’s going to subpoena Peter Strzok and we’re also going to get eventually to Andrew McCabe, as well.
"We need those people to come in, to be deposed and to put those people on the same stand that [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions and [Deputy Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein sat on in the past few weeks.”
translation: Trump is not firing anyone. They are all doing a pretty good job of hanging themselves.
Is it possible to make Gowdy an actor instead of an Actor?
NO WAY! This a-hole McCabe should not only go , he should be PROSECUTED !
Check this out ; Not only is McCabe involved in the attempted oust Trump Coup but he was one of the main dirty rats in the Benghazi coverup too :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ROAn81v4RSo
Remember Benghazi ! We owe it to Charlie Woods , we owe it to Tyrone .
The Kabuki King is at it again.
speaking of hanging
what is the appropriate penalty for treason ?
All talk and bluster, resulting in absolutely nothing.
Business as usual for Gowdy.
His Globalist minders are okay with it.
Sure sounds like Gowdy accepted his explanation.
Of course, Gowdy never delivers.
A getting nowhere fast BUMP! bookmark for 2020.
Toothless windbag....Gowdy
Just like Issa.
Abso-f’n-lutely.
I hope the whitewash has not begun.
And what about the $700,000.00 his wife oh-so-conveniently got from the DNC for her run for public office in VA?
This guy is as dirty as they come and stinks so bad I can smell him right here in NYC.
Gowdy is an empty shirt
I’m so freak’n tired of this mullet wearing dipshit.
He’s a great Actor with great wardrobe and makeup and hair styling, along with elocution consultants and marketing agents.
Didn’t McCabe tell a group of FBI agents in January, “I hate Trump?”
McCabe should have been gone 11 months ago.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.