Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) appeared on Fox’s First 100 Days Thursday evening after a closed door briefing earlier in the day by FBI director James Comey concerning the agency’s investigation into claims of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The interview begins with host Martha MacCallum mentioning that Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), who attended the same meeting, was “rattled” over the lack of information Comey gave concerning Russian involvement in the election.
Gowdy, on the other hand, seemed shocked at Schiff’s apparent lack of enlightenment:
Jim Comey did more today to update us than I have ever had done in the 6 years I have been there, and for Adam to treat it that way – that dismissively, clearly he and I were in two separate rooms this morning.
I have never heard a Federal law enforcement agent give, with that degree of particularity and detail, an update on an inquiry. As you may recall, I was a federal prosecutor for 6 years, so I have talked to lots of FBI agents. He went so far beyond what any other administration official has ever done, whether it’s Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, or his predecessor Robert Muller – they never gave us this level of detail and specificity. He bent over backwards.
When pressed on whether or not FBI Director Comey revealed any new information in light of [former CIA Director] John Brennan and [former Director of National Intelligence] James Clapper finding no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, Gowdy deflected – citing the confidential nature of the briefing. He did, however, make a statement concerning the New York Times ($NYT) and Washington Post – publications included in what President Trump and top advisor Steve Bannon refer to as the media “opposition party”:
I will tell you this – to the extent people are relying on media reports, whether it’s the New York Times or the Washington Post, upon which to base their factual assertions, I would tell them to be very very careful. I’m not gonna say any more than that, other than to say that the person leading the investigation on behalf of the Untied States government, the head of the FBI, listen to what he has to say – don’t listen to anonymous sources who leak classified information which, oh by the way, is also against the law. Between Jim Comey and a reporter from the New York Times, give me Jim Comey.
Takeaways: Rep. Gowdy clearly heard a lot of things he liked during the closed door session, while deflated Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff did not. Second; FBI director Comey obviously discussed the dissemination of leaked classified information to the mainstream media – to the extent that Gowdy, an attorney and former prosecutor, is advising people who rely on the leaks to be “very, very careful” in doing so.
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Is this the same Trey Gowdy who headed a witch hunt that did nothing beyond waste millions of tax payer dollars? Clearly that guy has credibility to waste.
Schiff was rattled because Comey hasn’t been forthcoming on the FBI’s investigation.. not because of the lack of incriminating evidence. The lies are epic at this time. White House says Flynn had just two meetings with Russians.. now we know that he had another meeting along with Kushner. How could Trump not know that? Now we know that Donnie Jr. had meeting with a group in France connected with Russians. Why? You find nothing suspicious in all of this? Trump clearly is lying and covering up something or has absolutely no idea what’s going on with his boys. The longer this Russian stuff goes unresolved the less chance anything gets done with policy. Maybe that’s not a bad thing.
Sessions, Gowdy …you southerners gotta stop making babies with 1st cousins.
Kinda wonder how much Bezos has to do with the news coming from the Washington Post these days?
Zero . please put Gowdy’s and Voldemort’s from Harry Potter picture’s side-by-side… they are the same.
Who knows at this point, but only the willfully blind can deny that the country deserves a fuller investigation and explanation.
All of this has to be an orchestrated distraction of some kind. There’s just too much shit randomly being thrown in the air.
Trader, I have no problems with Flynn, Jr., or any of them meeting with Russians – whatsoever. Hillary and Podesta were already deeply involved with them on many levels – it’s obvious things aren’t as acrimonious as advertised on both sides. You have Uranium One and the fact that Podesta sat on the board of Joule *with Russian generals*. On the other hand you had team Trump with Flynn and Manafort’s cozy ties.
The joke here is people continue to think they’re still our enemy, and that our government wants nothing to do with them. Reality is the exact opposite, and people are completely stuck on this whole red dawn bullshit we’ve been conditioned with since we were kids.
Crimea was about Russia controlling oil ports, so the West makes this big fucking deal like it’s a humanitarian crisis – when in fact Crimea wanted to rejoin Russia. Hell, even if their election was a sham – so what? Crimeans are cool with it for the most part.
Maybe I’m just a tin foil fuck but I really don’t think the Russian threat is as advertised, and the democrats are retarded to continue to push that narrative.
Why look; it’s the Russian ambassador sitting with the Democrats during Trump’s address to congress!
https://ibankcoin.com/zeropointnow/files/2017/03/russam.jpg
Zero — you begin with the implicit assumption that Russia did not just participate in a program to improperly influence our presidential election. A lot of folks agree with you. A lot of US intelligence professionals disagree or have concerns.
Is Russia our ‘Red Dawn’ enemy…maybe not, but if you imagine that all of Crimea yearned to be rejoined with Russia, I think you’re mistaken. And if you think a world where established national boundaries can be disregarded is alright with you, then please review your concerns about US border with Mexico. Hell most of the Southwest was Mexico’s until we took it from them in a war that Abraham Lincoln felt was shameful. I doubt you would support the desire of their Mexican American descendants to rejoin the country of their heritage. Right?
For a moment of excessive sincerity and laughable idealism, let me say that I believe historically the US has “stood for something” more than “winning”. In his admiration of Putin, and his narrowly defined “America First” nationalism, Trump is not returning to what made America exceptional, he’s taking us in the other direction.
I am stepping off my soapbox now.
Confirmation bias is a funny thing. “It’s the Russians! Because globally influential people meeting with lots of people around the world once met with Russians! You think you’d find someone out of all of Obama’s cabinet meeting with the Europeans? Of course not!”
Years later people are going to look at the era of Pizza conspiracy theories and conspiracy theories involving Russian “connections” (what does that even mean and why does it matter?)
The Comet Pizza was probably the same confirmation bias which is why I never give much credibility to either story.
History will look back on this as worse than McCarthyism or the Salem witch trials. We’ll all look back and wonder why our brains collectively broke looking for something that wasn’t there.
The discussion on Crimea is incomplete. There is important context for Russia’s absorbing Crimea back into the fold. Specifically, in violation of agreements with Russia, we had been encroaching on states that border Russia since Clinton was president. We then got caught red-handed involving ourselves in a coup in Ukraine that threw out a Russia-friendly government. If Putin did not then act to secure their sea access through Crimea, he would have had likely been acted against internally by someone who would finally respond to western encroachment.
Our ham-handed, neocon-infested State Dept under Obama caused the loss of Crimea and caused Putin to go from being very unpopular at home to being popular and securely in power. Russians now blame us for much of their privation, instead of their own government; due to our idiot politicians talking-down Russians (“they produce nothing, economy the size of Italy, Europe’s gas station”) and talking-up sanctions.
I know this is ad hominem, but doesn’t Trey G. Remind you of Butters on South Park?
Yes, I find nothing suspicious in all of this.
I would say I’m suspicious of the incessant harassment of the media and liberal mobs about Russia, but it would be moronic to say it’s just suspicion. Anyone with a brain can see the blatant agenda.
The way the liberal media portrays all of this, I feel like I missed some major headlines around when we declared war on Russia.
I was a teenager when Reagan was in office and the Soviet Union collapsed. In more recent years it really seemed like Russia was a much more minor player in the world, with their still weak economy, vastly reduced military, etc. etc. all of this ‘OMG Russia!’ bullshit seems very transparently drummed up for political purposes by the loser left and as a lame attempt at revenge by the butthurt media.
By all means keep it up guys. If you can’t see how this is hurting you down the road, well. A wise man once said “never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.”