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Gowdy: FBI acted properly with use of informant during 2016 campaign
The Hill ^ | 29 May 2018 | JULIA MANCHESTER

Posted on 05/29/2018 6:20:18 PM PDT by Magnatron

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said Tuesday he believes the FBI acted properly with its use of an informant to speak with several members of President Trump's 2016 campaign.

"I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump," Gowdy said on Fox News's "The Story."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 115th; carterpage; deepstateshill; georgepapadopoulos; gowdy; lying; samclovis; southcarolina; spygate; stefanhalper; treygowdy; trumpwiretaps; unrelatedtotrump; witchhunt
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To: Kalamata

love it


161 posted on 05/30/2018 8:24:18 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: MtnClimber

“America 2018: Bifurcation”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/america_2018_bifurcation.html


162 posted on 05/30/2018 8:36:34 AM PDT by WWII_Historian
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To: Zathras

The GOP-e now KNOWS that 3-5 GOP Senators are looking at prison if this goes any further.


Too bad one of those won’t live long enough to see it happen to him.


163 posted on 05/30/2018 8:42:46 AM PDT by zaxtres
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To: Stingray51

Powerful 53 year-old congressmen retiring. A blowhard who loves the limelight. So what is the real reason for his retirement?


Make more money as a lobbyist than congressmen.


164 posted on 05/30/2018 8:44:06 AM PDT by zaxtres
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To: mass55th

Well, Gowdy sure had me fooled for a while. In time I realized he was nothing but a lip flapper.


165 posted on 05/30/2018 9:29:45 AM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: Magnatron

Parsing Gowdy’s exact words, you can kinda see what he meant. With the (bad) information the FBI was given, you rather would want them to look into the charges.

That said, the FBI was thoroughly wrong not to inform Trump, wrong to let the “informant” remain in place so long and dead wrong not to question Obummer’s role in this stinker. If the Seventh Floor can’t add two plus two, then we have a coup attempt and not legitimate police wok.

I’m waiting for the news to break about what the “informant” did with the information he gathered. How much info went to the FBI and how much, if any, went to the Dems? I’m betting he helped the Dems a lot more than we know right now.


166 posted on 05/30/2018 9:43:07 AM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun. Period.)
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To: SaraJohnson

All talk...no action. Typical GOPe type.


167 posted on 05/30/2018 9:52:56 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Stingray51

Probably, he’ll become a lobbyist in two years.


168 posted on 05/30/2018 10:20:04 AM PDT by jch10 (Media: prostitutes for the Democrat Party.)
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To: Magnatron

Pelosi’s son?


169 posted on 05/30/2018 10:22:49 AM PDT by Rannug (When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.)
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To: Magnatron

OK -— so we need to get the same scenario started investigating anyone who looks like they are aiming to run in 2018 and/or 2020. What’s good for the goose. . . Let’s get that started NOW since we have so much testimony from “respected” lawmakers that it is A-OK. Talk about opposition research -— winning will be easier once we know everything the left is doing and has planned for their campaigns. If there are any complaints or questions from the media or the lefties, send them to Gowdy et al.


170 posted on 05/30/2018 10:41:54 AM PDT by LTC.Ret
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To: GLDNGUN

Just read a long article about the Maltese academic who alledgedly told Pompodopoulos about Russians having Hillary emails. It’s a long and complicated report. I came away with the feeling this is a “much larger issue” ... universal in scope. I feel the complete story will never be known. Sad!

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/26/the_maltese_phantom_of_russiagate_.html


171 posted on 05/30/2018 11:50:00 AM PDT by Nanny7
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To: Candor7
"I do not trust Gowdy. He is lining himself up to get a federal judicial appointment, or a position within the FBI.

I've read that he already turned down the offer of a judgeship.

More than likely one of Brennan's crew has put the fear of god into his family: sending an envelope home with one of his kids, leaving a note on the kitchen table in the middle of the night, skewering the family pet on a fence post; the proverbial horse's head in the bed.

He certainly had been whacking the wicked witch of Chappaqua enough times during the Bengazi investigation and somebody convinced him being a representative or anywhere in government service wasn't a healthy occupation: his family would pay the price if he persisted.

He could have done a lot of good but he's a seriously changed person. Time to go home.

172 posted on 05/30/2018 12:04:38 PM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: PLMerite

The Trump administration should send informants (spies) into the Biden, Warren, Harris, Sanders or any other Democratic Presidential candidate in the upcoming election. For that matter they might need to spy on the Congressional and Senate candidates that might be collude with the Russians. Apparently it is the right and proper thing to do to keep the Russians from influencing the DNC.


173 posted on 05/30/2018 12:21:24 PM PDT by 728b (Never cry over something that can not cry over you.)
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To: 728b

LOL

“Hey! We’re sending over some informants to work in your campaign. They are there to protect the ballot boxes from the Russians.”


174 posted on 05/30/2018 12:24:41 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: DNME

I’m waiting for the news to break about what the “informant” did with the information he gathered. How much info went to the FBI and how much, if any, went to the Dems? I’m betting he helped the Dems a lot more than we know right now.


Also remember Hillary brought up the Russians in the second debate.... Maybe a link there , and if she got wind of this coming from the “ informant” that to me is collusion on the FBI’s part to aid her


175 posted on 05/30/2018 1:23:38 PM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Sa-teef

He certainly had been whacking the wicked witch of Chappaqua enough times during the Bengazi investigation and somebody convinced him being a representative or anywhere in government service wasn’t a healthy occupation: his family would pay the price if he persisted.

He could have done a lot of good but he’s a seriously changed person. Time to go home.


Watch the movie Snowden. He reveals how they the NSA data mines multiple connections to a person and uses that leverage against them as the person they want silenced will protect the others, or themselves is there is some more direct connection to something they never want to see the light of day...


176 posted on 05/30/2018 1:25:44 PM PDT by patriotspride
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To: nopardons

>>Gowdy is, in deed, a POS and has ruined his reputation, by finally saying, out loud and on T.V. what he REALLY meant, instead of lying through his teeth and pretending to be what he NEVER was.<<

Definitely a protege of those two pieces of excrement Arizona voters have foisted on the country.


177 posted on 05/30/2018 2:41:46 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( This Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: lee martell

>>Go home Roosterhead. The cock has already crowed three times while looking at you!<<

Well and truly said.


178 posted on 05/30/2018 2:43:39 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( This Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: jacknhoo

>>Gowdy has always been a GOPe swamp tool, pretending to hold the swamp’s feet to the fire to placate the voters.<<

I’ve watched this smelly tu*d closely for a long time and he has always appeared to me to be disingenuous, carefully parsing his words, etc. In other words just the opposite of Jim Jordan. Just another snake in the swamp!


179 posted on 05/30/2018 2:52:39 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( This Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Bet he is BFF with those two!


180 posted on 05/30/2018 3:32:53 PM PDT by nopardons
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