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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 11:29 AM Nov 2017

Gowdy: I Don't Think 'Threshold Has Been Met' For Clinton Special Counsel

Source: Talking Points Memo




By ESME CRIBB Published NOVEMBER 15, 2017 10:17 AM

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday said he does not think the “threshold” has been met to appoint a special counsel to look into matters related to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.

“You can investigate something without special counsel,” Gowdy said on Fox News. “There is a threshold that has to be met, and I don’t think it has been met.”

During a House Judiciary hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled Attorney General Jeff Sessions about what it would take to get a special counsel investigation into the so-called Trump dossier and various Clinton-related accusations.

Sessions on Tuesday pushed back, and told Jordan that there must be a “factual basis” to appoint a special counsel.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trey-gowdy-threshold-has-not-been-met-for-clinton-special-counsel

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FarPoint

(12,463 posts)
4. Gowdy was probably in on the team meetings for this...the uranium false claims on Hillary...
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 11:33 AM
Nov 2017

He rolls this way indeed.. .smart enough to sense it will be poorly received..

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
11. That creep makes my vomit. The despecable bastard is lower than whale shit.
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 12:36 PM
Nov 2017

I despise the damn Republicans, one and all. My only regret is that I probably will not live long enough to see them totally discredited. The Southern scum are the worst. Lying hypocrites. Lincoln made a big mistake, the South wasn't worth saving. He should have let the Blacks solve the problem. They would have had access to plenty of support from the North.

onetexan

(13,069 posts)
12. yup, at this point they're grasping at straws
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 01:09 PM
Nov 2017

whatever to get the focus off the looming Russiagate investigation threatening all of them.

DURHAM D

(32,611 posts)
5. I watched the Jordan video and was shocked.
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 11:35 AM
Nov 2017

That was crazy. He needs a psych evaluation.

It is unbelievable that people like that are making decisions that impact all of our lives.

Botany

(70,610 posts)
10. Ohio's own Jim Jordan in a highly gerrymandered district .... right up the road from me.
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 12:19 PM
Nov 2017

He is really nuts. I remember when Hillary was giving testimony in front of Trey Gowdy's
committee watching in horror as he was yelling at her because of something I just didn't
get.

 

Larrybanal

(227 posts)
14. blowhard
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 02:16 PM
Nov 2017

he seems to think ranting and getting in the face of people he is questioning makes him look powerful and in charge

shraby

(21,946 posts)
8. What's that old saying? Sh*t in one hand and put a wish in the other and
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 12:00 PM
Nov 2017

which hand gets full fastest?

He knows this has been hashed, rehashed and re-rehashed already, and knows what would be found by a new investigation. He just wants the spotlight on that pointy head of his.

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