I heard Gowdy make that statement. I thought he was giving a sarcastic reply to the interviewer’s question.
That’s the way I read it.
Of course he was.
I can't figure out what people expected Gowdy to do. He's a Congressman, not a prosecutor. He doesn't work for the Department of Justice. He has no access to a Grand Jury.
The only power he has is to call witnesses and question them, and then only when a majority of his committee agrees to do so.
Those who criticize Gowdy should explain just which witnesses he should have called and what questions should have been asked. We know a lot about various federal government scandals because of the work of people like Gowdy who at every turn would be opposed by people like Schiff.
Gowdy's statement regarding the difficulty of prosecuting based on "Comey's rules" is Gowdy's attempt to show the unreasonableness of Comey's actions which would result in interpreting the law such that the law would be useless. Gowdy knows that the problem is not the law, but rather was Comey's fake interpretation of it.
If Sessions does his job, we WILL see the law enforced against Comey. Whether Hillary escapes prosecution is another issue. She committed her crimes under Obama and may be able to run out the clock.
You are correct. It was dripping sarcasm.