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Trey Gowdy: I might take Hillary Clinton’s word on emails
Washington Times ^ | 5/1/2015 | David Sherfinski

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.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; soshillary
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To: markomalley

What is it with these spineless Republicans? Have they all been bought off? Wwhat a bunch of F$$$$$$ crap!!!!


61 posted on 05/01/2015 7:00:04 PM PDT by Fungi (Job 26:7 : He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.)
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To: CriticalJ

Damn. Know, not no.


62 posted on 05/01/2015 7:00:55 PM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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To: tennmountainman

My statement stands without my submitting to juvenile tests of prophecy.


63 posted on 05/01/2015 7:04:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: markomalley

perjury trap?


64 posted on 05/01/2015 7:06:40 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: markomalley

Go look up “flash in the pan” in the dictionary and see if you don’t find Gowdy’s pitcha there with his funny hairdo.


65 posted on 05/01/2015 7:07:39 PM PDT by OKSooner (Chamberlain at least loved his country, please don't insult his memory by comparing him to 0.)
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To: TigersEye

I mean it’s been years since Bengazi.

What has Gowdy done but run his mouth.


66 posted on 05/01/2015 7:10:17 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: rolling_stone

You have to put someone under oath to create a perjury trap.

Gowdy is all talk and no action.


67 posted on 05/01/2015 7:11:32 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: markomalley

I would NOT take Shrillary’s word for the date & the DAY of the week.....Not now.....NOT ever.

She is a born liar. She married a born liar. They lie for each other. They lie to each other. Chelsea is a brainwashed offspring of 2 born liars.

Too bad when she got fired from the group that was writing impeachment orders for Nixon that she didn’t get stopped right there.


68 posted on 05/01/2015 7:12:48 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: tennmountainman

We all know that if you were running the committee Hillary would already be serving life in prison. But you’re not you’re ... I don’t know ... what are you? lol


69 posted on 05/01/2015 7:13:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: CriticalJ

A sane person wouldn’t, but she’s a Clinton. He may be counting on her arrogance and sense of superiority to coax her into something stupid.


70 posted on 05/01/2015 7:13:48 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: markomalley

Never take Hillary’s word on anything. She lies like an Islamic “taqqiya” observer, or a communist posing as a libel (more likely for her given her background with the reds in the legal and educational fields).


71 posted on 05/01/2015 7:14:42 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: CriticalJ

Sorry, i know more than a little about working lying witnesses. You never let them explain. You never promise the media and the public that if little old Hillary will just say she gave everything of relevance, you will end that line of inquiry. She wiped her hard drive ffs. She’ll say she gave everything relevant and then argue relevance for the next ten years, no matter what Gowdy comes up with. Do you recall Bill arguing the meaning of the word “is”? Hillary and her lawyers would have a field day and you would never shut her mouth again! You never invite her and her people to speak. You make them answer tightly scripted questions for which you already have solid, incontrovertible evidence.
It’s over. He sold out, or is the stupidest “witness worker” and trial strategist i’ve ever seen.
I’m not saying it’s impossible he’s just really stupid, since the prosecutor’s office pay far less than blue chip corporate and thus usually get the bottem of the barrel law school grad, it’s just extremely unlikely.
Once you have tried a few hundred cases, you learn to never do what he just did as a tricky strategery. He’s letting her go. Period.


72 posted on 05/01/2015 7:19:24 PM PDT by Melinator (my 2 cents)
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To: TigersEye

What has Gowdy done?


73 posted on 05/01/2015 7:19:32 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: Linda Frances

I think you’ve nailed it....he’s just setting the trap.
I still have a little faith in Trey Gowdy, he’s not stupid.


74 posted on 05/01/2015 7:21:51 PM PDT by Fireone (Impeach and imprison, NOW! Treason and murder are still crimes.)
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To: spokeshave; ab01; afraidfortherepublic; al baby; AllAmericanGirl44; Aria; AZ .44 MAG; BatGuano; ...
You're right spokeshave, it's a trap. Laid by Trey Gowdy. Not the first trap he's laid. He's good at it.

Trey is meticulous and thorough.


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75 posted on 05/01/2015 7:25:13 PM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Governent is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V.)
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To: KevinB
Exactly.

You put it better than I was going to.

76 posted on 05/01/2015 7:25:26 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: markomalley

Trey is just getting ready to pounce.
He was appointed by Speaker Bonehead their this job back in May of 2014, so he’s just being very, very, very patient in preparing to pounce sometime this year, or next.
Or maybe 2017. Or not.
Hey, if Hillary swears ...


77 posted on 05/01/2015 7:41:58 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Regulator

Gowdy is turning into Boehners jerkwad


78 posted on 05/01/2015 7:49:51 PM PDT by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: Linda Frances; spokeshave

Gowdy is dealing with a masterful liar that can evade his lame traps.

Gowdy is thinking if she doesn’t appear under oath, then that appears as an admission of guilt.

He’s thinking on the other hand if she appears, then I’ll nail her.

No Mr. Gowdy, she WILL APPEAR UNDER OATH and she will qualify all her statements “I tried my best”,. “I can’t be sure but I was as thorough as I could be”, etc.

And if he presses her, she will do a classic Clinton and make it look like another Republican is playing politics in an effort to derail her campaign for President as the first woman to be nominated as a presidential candidate.

There are ways to bring the Clintons down but republicans such as Gowdy are unwilling to sacrifice themselves to do it.


79 posted on 05/01/2015 7:50:43 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: markomalley

Sheesh. I think I’m going to ignore anything about Trey Gowdy until he does something substantial. For now he’s just filling a suit like the rest of them.


80 posted on 05/01/2015 7:51:28 PM PDT by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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