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Shocked I am. I imagine he might be walking this back, weasel that he is.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/04/06/gowdy_no_evidence_that_susan_rice_committed_a_crime_or_that_obama_wiretapped_trump.html
Gowdy: No Evidence That Susan Rice Committed A Crime, Or That Obama Wiretapped Trump
Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date April 6, 2017
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) told Greta van Susteren that he has not seen any evidence or proof that former National Security Advisor Susan Rice committed a crime or that now-President Trump was wiretapped by former President Obama.
From Wednesday's For The Record:
REP. TREY GOWDY: No, ma'am, the Congress doesn't investigate crime. She's a witness that has relevant information that would be within our committee's jurisdiction and we're going to want to talk to her. But we don't investigate crime and, Greta, I don't like it when anybody accuses other people of committing crimes, Representative Castro did it this morning and I would have the same reaction to that.
When you accuse people of committing crimes, that's serious and it's not Congress' job to investigate that and it's not my job as a member of Congress to level accusations like that.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, you were a very successful prosecutor prior to joining Congress. Put your hat on as a prosecutor for a second, have you seen any evidence if you were a prosecutor to suggest that Susan Rice had committed a crime?
GOWDY: Well, I have not but because chiefly I have not seen any of the evidence related to Ambassador Rice.
Chairman Nunes and perhaps ranking member Schiff have seen it. I'm coming up over the Easter recess to look at everything I have access to, but I'm not``` convinced that I yet have access to the underlying data that may have informed or instructed that opinion.
And unless you have overwhelming proof of a crime and it's your job to make that allegation, I just try to stay out of that realm. I mean, Congress should be investigating lots of things, but we don't investigate potential criminality. Therefore I don't think we ought to be talking about it.
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VAN SUSTEREN: Have you seen any evidence that President Obama wiretapped President Trump?
GOWDY: No, ma'am, not in the specific way in which you framed the question, no.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)I'd like to know who bribed him to speak truth. How odd.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)sounds like he said, "well, I haven't SEEN any evidence."
riversedge
(70,246 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)insinuating there might be a crime connected to Susan Rice.
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)underpants
(182,837 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,184 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts).......... ..........
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)Wow!
Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)But I am sure he does not want to look as unhinged and weak as he did during the Benghazi hearings
riversedge
(70,246 posts)OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)Benghazi investigation. In a perverse way he was reasonably straight up when it came to announcing the non findings.
jpak
(41,758 posts)yup
hatrack
(59,587 posts)My apologies to the actual Zippy the Pinhead, btw . . . . .
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)thanks for posting, sister!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The Guy will make his usual fake charges,watch and see. BTW,watch this sucker delay and delay.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Gowdy suddenly "No, ma'am/yes, ma'am'g" himself back into favor? He had to have been embarrassed over his performance to get Hillary so many times.
My, my...how polite and rule-abiding he has suddenly become.
It's a joke, right?