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Trey Gowdy Altered Documents To Frame Hillary Clinton (Original Post) Johnny2X2X Dec 2018 OP
Though this is certainly believable... UncleTomsEvilBrother Dec 2018 #1
Here is a better website article from USA Today: wishstar Dec 2018 #5
and all of it enabled/forced by the 1500 radio stations that have been certainot Dec 2018 #8
so true! Tumbulu Dec 2018 #13
Old rumor Jarqui Dec 2018 #2
Lock him up! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2018 #3
Now. iluvtennis Dec 2018 #10
This is old news HumblePi Dec 2018 #4
This is the letter replying to Cummings where he acknowledges it was not the CIA, but the Executive pecosbob Dec 2018 #6
Just askin...once PinHead Gowdy is out of office can he be called before a Congressional panel SayItLoud Dec 2018 #7
I don't believe this particular incident to be illegal pecosbob Dec 2018 #9
I'd like to point out that HE WAS the Chairman of that committee Haggis for Breakfast Dec 2018 #11
Agreed...would definitely appear to violate ethics requirements pecosbob Dec 2018 #12
1. Though this is certainly believable...
Sat Dec 15, 2018, 10:13 PM
Dec 2018

..., I'm not familiar with this website. The interface drive me insane, and the advertisement button after a paragraph makes me skeptical.

wishstar

(5,272 posts)
5. Here is a better website article from USA Today:
Sat Dec 15, 2018, 10:26 PM
Dec 2018
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/10/22/gowdy-benghazi-clinton-house-committee-joe-mccarthy-witch-hunt-column/74323940/

Over the course of his multiyear, $4.5 million, taxpayer-funded, partisan joyride of a committee, there are few strong-arm tactics Gowdy and his staff have deemed too low for their purposes. They appear to have leaked selective and allegedly incorrect information from closed-door testimony to generate damaging stories in the news. According to Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the top Democrat on the House Benghazi Committee, they have doctored documents to attempt to incriminate witnesses and Clinton herself. A whistle-blowing, conservative former committee staffer, Bradley Podliska, has accused Gowdy of running a partisan witch hunt.


 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
8. and all of it enabled/forced by the 1500 radio stations that have been
Sat Dec 15, 2018, 11:35 PM
Dec 2018

lying about the clintons and everything else for 30 years while democrats listened to music. those stations were critical to selling the crap that feeds all this. it's the talk radio stupid and "that's what limbaugh said (for putin)" should be a regular retort to anything republican.

wake up dems ! if you want this next phase to turn out right, as opposed to a bunch of forced compromises by dem reps who the same rw buzz will classify as 'spineless' dems and, why vote?

HumblePi

(46 posts)
4. This is old news
Sat Dec 15, 2018, 10:26 PM
Dec 2018

.... but, as I refer to him as 'Mister Pointy Skull' this actually did happen but i had to confirm it through a more acceptable website and found the article on Huff Post.

[link:https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-benghazi-cia_us_562414f3e4b0bce3470122c5|

POLITICS 10/18/2015 07:59 pm ET Updated Jan 03, 2017
Top Dem Slams Benghazi Committee Chair For False Claim Against Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, called out the committee’s chair on Sunday for advancing a claim against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the CIA later proved false.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, alleged in an Oct. 7 letter that Clinton used her private email account to release the name of a CIA source on Libya. An email sent by adviser Sidney Blumenthal that she then forwarded to a member of her staff reportedly contained the name of that source, which would have suggested that Clinton used her private email server to disseminate classified information.

But on Sunday, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the committee’s ranking member, revealed that the CIA investigated the email and found that the information was not classified.

“The CIA yesterday informed both the Republican and Democratic staffs of the Select Committee that they do not consider the information you highlighted in your letter to be classified. Specifically, the CIA confirmed that the State Department consulted with the CIA on this production, the CIA reviewed these documents, and the CIA made no redactions to protect classified information,” Cummings said in a letter to Gowdy.

He called Gowdy’s claim “irresponsible” and said he owes Clinton “an immediate apology.”

Hillary Clinton may still be waiting for Trey Gowdy's apology.

pecosbob

(7,547 posts)
6. This is the letter replying to Cummings where he acknowledges it was not the CIA, but the Executive
Sat Dec 15, 2018, 10:32 PM
Dec 2018

that made the redactions and then goes on to use the pronoun "'we' will continue to redact certain information..."

https://benghazi.house.gov/sites/republicans.benghazi.house.gov/files/Gowdy%20to%20EEC%2010.18.15.pdf

SayItLoud

(1,702 posts)
7. Just askin...once PinHead Gowdy is out of office can he be called before a Congressional panel
Sat Dec 15, 2018, 11:29 PM
Dec 2018

probing what's been written in the article?

pecosbob

(7,547 posts)
9. I don't believe this particular incident to be illegal
Sat Dec 15, 2018, 11:40 PM
Dec 2018

Neither do I believe it was his idea to make the redactions.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
11. I'd like to point out that HE WAS the Chairman of that committee
Sun Dec 16, 2018, 12:08 AM
Dec 2018

ANYTHING they released could not have been released WITHOUT his review and sign off, that makes HIM credible for anything released by the committee.

As far as the legality, having worked with Congressional committees and sub-committees, I can tell you that there are Congressional statutes regarding ETHICS which blow his behavior out of the water.

pecosbob

(7,547 posts)
12. Agreed...would definitely appear to violate ethics requirements
Sun Dec 16, 2018, 12:15 AM
Dec 2018

and I have no doubt that he was fully aware of the alterations...I simply meant to indicate that the instruction to make the redactions and misrepresent their origin may have come from the WH.

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