Gowdy always talked a big game but completely flopped on Benghazi. Good riddance. Many R’s retiring. I wonder what’s up, but I have my own opinions on this, left unsaid.
“... completely flopped on Benghazi.”
Umm...no.
Because of Gowdy’s work on Benghazi, lotta closeted skeletons got dragged out into the daylight. It wasn’t a legal proceeding, so he didn’t have power to more than expose evidence; Prosecution for crimes exposed would have had to be initiated in another venue.
We’ve no way to gauge what he might have accomplished had he power to actually Prosecute those he subjected to his grilling. It was certainly evident how he’d swing had he the power to Judge and sentence them; they’d have all been “long ball” otta the park homerun “guilty” convictions.
By leaving Gowdy is in position to land someplace where his incisive lines of questioning, and his ability to drive toward evident truth would be of greater utility; perhaps as a Federal Judge, or even a SCOTUS nomination.
The retiring Republicans are doing so because their seats are now perceived to be safe for a Republican to win.
I would guess Gowdy would like to be a Federal Judge, maybe just a prosecutor would be a relief from Washington
Does anyone know if Mr. Gowdy made a pledge not to serve beyond 3 or 4 terms? He could be fulfilling that pledge.
The Gowdy chirpers are never ending
“Rep. Gowdy’s work with the House Select Committee on Benghazi is what started the downfall of Hillary Clinton and set the stage for the election of President Trump. Gowdy got tagged with the Chair of the committee. It was his investigatory work that turned up and made public the fact that Clinton was using a private server to store her official and classified e-mails instead of the legally mandated State Department server.
Because of this discovery operatives in the FBI, CIA and NSA among others had to CY Hillary’s A. Trump was able to rightfully campaign on the issue of two-tiered justice where submariner’s go to jail and liberal elites get rich. The cover up was almost as bad as the crime. Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page all have been ensnared with the cover-up and has undermined the Mueller investigation.
Speaking of, because of Hillary’s weakness the Obama cabal had to concoct the Steele dossier which if IG Horowitz is the investigator that I think he is will provide Gowdy and Jeff Sessions, that’s right Sessions, with plenty of ammo to take a big bite out of the swamp. Gowdy’s work on Benghazi was the opening salvo in making all of this happen. He did his investigation the right way. He had dimotards like Elijah Cummings, the MSM, deep state operatives like Comey and Lynch working against him.
If he had been the director of the FBI I have no doubt that Hillary would be in jail but as a House committee chair he didn’t have that constitutional mandate. I am beginning to believe that Gowdy is scaring the bejesus out of folks and that he is why he is being attacked so aggressively. You Gowdy haters need to step back and take a deep breath. He has and folks like Jason Chavetz and others created the conditions to take down the deep state. Cut the man some slack.”
Gowdy is a congressman, not the attorney general. He can make recommendations every day, but like with sloth face Holder, there’s always the possibility that nothing will happen.