"Now don't you ever, ever, EVER, do this again!
Posted on 06/19/2018 8:19:47 AM PDT by ETL
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy scorched James Comey in a blistering opening statement at a high-profile congressional hearing on Tuesday, declaring “we can’t survive with a justice system we don’t trust.”
Gowdy kicked off the hearing featuring testimony from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on his review of the Hillary Clinton email case. The top DOJ watchdog is on Capitol Hill for the second day in a row to discuss the explosive report.
But Gowdy launched into Tuesday's session -- a joint hearing held by the House oversight and judiciary panels -- with a fiery condemnation of the former FBI director and certain agents in the bureau he led.
Referring to IG findings that Comey defied his superiors in his handling of the Clinton email case, Gowdy accused the ex-director of essentially operating by his own rules.
"We see Jim Comey and Jim Comey alone deciding which DOJ policies to follow and which to ignore," he said.
Gowdy accused Comey of watering down his initial statement on the investigation's findings and making other decisions on his own. While Comey has suggested he acted unilaterally out of concern for the Justice Department's handling of the case, Gowdy questioned why he didn't seek a special counsel -- as he indirectly did regarding concerns about the Trump administration.
“Instead, he appointed himself FBI director, attorney general, special counsel, lead investigator and the general arbiter of what is good and right in the world according to him,” Gowdy said.
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“I have said forever that Issa and Gowdy are just actors pretending to be tough guys. I got pounded on here for saying it.
Neither one of them ever did anything but talk big.”
You were right, unfortunately.
I never trusted Issa. It seemed that Issa would hurt himself diving to get in front of the nearest camera.
I once had great hope for Gowdy. He talked such a good game, and if he wants to, he can absolutely fillet someone he interviews. Sadly, Gowdy is all hat and no cattle.
"Now don't you ever, ever, EVER, do this again!
Wow! Trey Gowdy said serious things. Wow. This changes EVERYTHING!!!
How was his hair and makeup?
Exactly. Gowdy is so ineffective, had he been a Democrat during Watergate, Nixon would somehow still be president.
Gowdy and Comey doing the WWE (Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage) routine for the chumps at home.
“there is no law enforcement in America for the well-connected.”
Absolutely. The Deep state elites have to realize that their special position breeds contempt not only for the elites but also contempt for the law, and rightly so.
At this point, citizens have an obligation to apply these standards to fellow citizens. Should we trust evidence from the FBI in court cases? Should we trust prosecutors? We need to apply civil disobedience and jury nullification in the court room with the rationale that elites must be held to account first.
Empty tin cans make more noise.
Dog and pony show.
President Trump could fire Sessions, Rosenweasel and all the deep-state actors under his authority - and replace them with anti-deep-state patriots.
Why no Trump DOJ indictment?
Because Trump.
Outstanding rant! “A textbook case of bias.” It was “outcomes-based bias.” The IG was squirming like a whore in church.
Didn’t Gowdy portray himself as judge when he claimed the FBI were right to place spies on the Trump campaign?
Here is the default AG if Session goes:
You happy?
Your butt-buddy is.
Water downed?
Comey is going to be the fall guy for all this. Everyone else is going to skate...on everything. All the wrong, all the blame for everything is going to be the fault of Comey. The swamp thinks conservatives will be happy with this. They think that liberals will be happy with this. It’s the compromise position to try and bury a coup against the President of the United States.
Maybe the media is going to breathlessly report how Comey is going to flip and end up indicting both Obama and Hillary and the AG.
Trey “all hat and no cattle “ Gowdy
Is the unnatural looking blinking of Gowdy’s eyes real? It’s weird.
Nunez may also be all hat. Did Rosenstein hand over the documents? Will he be jailed for conrempt of Congress tomorrow? Will impeachment proceedings begin tomorrow?
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