Trey Gowdy Is the Perfect Trump Stooge in House Russia Probe.
Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, has a very important job: preserving
the presidency of a man whose campaign featured individuals who had contacts with likely agents
of a foreign adversary that intelligence officials say interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
That interference favored the election of Donald J. Trump—or, at the very least, was
designed to damage his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Gowdy's job of late has been getting tougher, what with The Washington Post's revelation
on May 22 that Trump had called Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, and Michael
Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, "urging them to publicly deny the
existence of any evidence of collusion during the 2016 election," according to the Post.
Then there's the Senate subpoena of documents from former National Security Adviser Michael
Flynn, who served as a Trump campaign surrogate, regarding his contacts with agents of foreign
governments (including Russia).
On Tuesday, Flynn's attorneys informed the Senate Intelligence Committee that the former
Trump flunky was refusing to provide the subpoenaed documents to the committee, invoking the Fifth
Amendment protection against self-incrimination.
On that very same day, John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency,
appeared before the House Intelligence Committee, saying, as quoted in The New York Times, that
he "had unresolved questions in my mind as to whether or not the Russians had been
successful in getting U.S. persons involved in the campaign or not to work on their behalf."
Gowdy, a member of the committee, couldn't wait to pounce—especially on that "unresolved"
piece of things.
Willfully refusing to accept the fact that the CIA does not conduct criminal investigations,
Gowdy tried to paint the former spy chief as a partisan player by demanding "evidence"
of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russia, and insisting that Brennan
reveal, in a public session, information that Brennan said was classified: the names of
the Trump associates whose contacts with Russian figures the CIA had chronicled.
A perfect stooge for the quisling from Queens who is now the commander in chief, one has
to admire how compatible Gowdy's disregard for classified information is with that of
Trump.
Here's a brief excerpt of Gowdy's badgering, taken from a CNN transcript:
BRENNAN: I saw information and intelligence that was worthy of investigation by the Bureau
to determine whether or not such cooperation or conclusion [sic] was taking place.
GOWDY: That doesn't help us a lot.
What was the nature of the information?
BRENNAN: As I said, Mr. Gowdy, I think this committee now has access to the type of information
that I'm alluding to here.
It's classified and I'm happy to talk about it in classified session.
GOWDY: And that would've been directly between the candidate and Russian state actors?
BRENNAN: That's not what I said.
I'm not going to talk about any individuals ...
(CROSSTALK) GOWDY: But—but that was—but that was my question, and—and—and you
answered it.
You didn't answer it that way.
BRENNAN: I—no, I responded to your query.
I'm not going to respond to particular elements of your question because I think it would
be inappropriate for me to do so here.
GOWDY: So the answer...
(CROSSTALK)
BRENNAN: So I can only repeat what I said, which is that I was aware of intelligence
and information about contacts between Russian officials and U.S. persons that raised concerns
in my mind about whether or not those individuals were cooperating with the Russians, either
in a witting or unwitting fashion, and it served as the basis for the FBI investigation
to determine whether such collusion—cooperation occurred.
Later in the hearing, Representative Tom Rooney, Republican of Florida, asked Brennan, "Can
you tell us whether or not, from the information that you've looked at, it looks like the
intelligence shows that Moscow was actually rooting for Donald Trump or were they rooting
against Hillary Clinton?"
"I think my assessment was [that] it was both," Brennan replied.
The same could be said for Trey Gowdy, who famously tried to tarnish the reputation of
Clinton with an "investigation" of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi,
Libya, which took place during her tenure as secretary of state.
Gowdy's tribunal is estimated to have cost taxpayers as much as $7 million, only to come
up empty of evidence that Clinton was either negligent or complicit in the attack by anti-government
terrorists.
The investigation was undertaken as Clinton was preparing for her presidential run.
There's an old saying attributed to W.C.
Fields: "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."
That's why Gowdy is trying to make it look as though the former CIA director's refusal
to say he saw actual collusion—which is not his determination to make—amounts to
proof that none took place.
Oh, I know you're not baffled by Gowdy's cow-pies, but his show isn't intended for
you.
It's for Trump's electoral base, the frothing-at-the-mouth types who show up at his rallies.
To maintain their majority in the House of Representatives, the Republicans must prod
those people to the polls in the 2018 midterm elections.
Should that majority slip from their hands, it's likely only a matter of time before
articles of impeachment are drawn up by the Democrats.
And that's why he badgered Brennan: It's a wink to the base that implies Brennan is
some kind of partisan hack, for the simple reason that he was appointed to his post at
the top of the spy agency by the despised Barack Obama, the man Trump falsely claimed
had usurped the presidency.
In the ruthlessly gerrymandered districts of states run by Republicans, running against
the first African American president—even one no longer in office—is a pretty strategic
plan.
Even brilliant, perhaps.
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