Posted on 05/01/2015 5:41:10 PM PDT by markomalley
The chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi said he might take former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at her word if she swears under oath that she’s turned over any relevant documents he’s seeking.
“If she were, under some theory, able to say, ‘yes, I can promise you under penalty of perjury you have every single document you’re entitled to,’ that would probably shut off that line of inquiry,” Rep. Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, told USA Today’s “Capital Download.”
“There may be other questions about the security of the server or why you gave this person clintonemail dot com address but you didn’t give this person — those are all separate questions,” he added. “I just need to make sure that the public record is complete.”
Mrs. Clinton said in March that she exclusively used a private email address while serving as the nation’s top diplomat largely out of convenience. She turned over about 30,000 emails she deemed work-related to the State Department in late 2014 — nearly two years after leaving office — and deleted the rest, also wiping clean a private server and declining to turn the server over to an independent party.
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I’ll grant that I may have knee-jerked. But I don’t feel too bad about it, considering what we’ve seen from congressional Republicans in recent history.
I agree. I think he’s playing with her.
I am reserving judgement until we see real actionable results from Mr. Gowdy’s committee. So far, I have heard of zero results, unless one counts face time on Fox News. But, I’m still giving him the benefit of the doubt.
LOL. You beat me to it, and your Admiral Akbar picture was tops! We also reached the same conclusion. Hillary making a statement under oath... we wish!
There’s been a saying afoot since 1992: “Hillary’s tentacles are everywhere”.
How does Trey know he has information that her spies don’t know about? Conspiratorial, yes, but not impossible.
If Trey tricks Hillary into committing perjury before the committee with solid evidence to back it up, it’ll be a bigger nuclear blast than Watergate. And wouldn’t that be ironic?
And when do you think Gowdy and the Weak-Kneed GOP sisters
call Hillary to testify under oath?
Because it has been years and she still has not been called to testify
under oath.
It’s an interesting gambit by a prosecutor who is not showing all of his cards...
Haha. He’s got the goods lol.
I wonder if someone got to guccifer...
For what benefit to him?
POTOMAC FEVER
GROWING IN OFFICE
Thanks, Trey.
The same benefit the GOPe’s believe they get by not laying one glove
on the nations first black President.
More Congressional crap. Thanks for nothing, Trey.
Damn spineless GOP. FU Republicrats!
Trey’s caught Lindseyitis. It’s a SC thing.
I hear the strains of “Solace” from The Sting playing in the back ground.
Gowdy is playing it cool. He’s fly fishing for a 12 lb trout with a 2 lb leader and he knows it. All he has to do is to let it play it’s course in the public arena, then when it slows down a bit, lay some more honey and sugar out for Hillary, rinse repeat.
Trey won’t trick HRC because she won’t tell his committee anything of substance.
Yeah, right.
Just promise you are telling the truth Hillary and the questions will stop.
Tricky sticky trap for sure...
What a laugh.
Only complete idiots cannot see what is happening here.
He’s letting her walk.
It is like getting a murderer on the stand and saying “just swear you did not do it, despite all the evidence against you, and we’ll let you go”, and then let her go.
If i’m not mistaken Gowdy was one of the 8 who voted to let Kerry and Obama do their deal with Iran
I also note the posters on this thread are all names i never see.
I have read this site daily and extensively for almost 20 years.
Re posters i never see: they are the ones claiming Gowdy is clever, trapping hillary, not betraying America, etc. the ones in favour of what this traitor just said.
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