The one thing that confused me about Trey Gowdy is why did he ever state that Mueller and Comey were men of honesty and integrity when their entire pasts were nothing but sleazy abuses while working in the FBI and DoJ. Nothing in their past is commendable. They were up to their eyeballs in Uranium One any many other public corruption scandals.
They have been a tag team where one is working in government while the other is making bank in the private sector mostly getting sweetheart deals with the government for their employers corrupt practices; most often cutting those deals with each other.
I am shocked that their close personal ties are not the subject of more stories. When Comey found out he been fired, his first call on his flight to D.C. was to Mueller; undoubtedly to figure out how to Mueller appointed Special Counsel by Rosenstien. I can’t figure out how I’m the hell Rosenstien still has a job.
I have always thought that Trey Gowdy was giving Mueller and Comey the benefit of the doubt knowing of their reputation. That is the trust but verify side of his lawyer training. Most likely he would not have ever had to drill down on the character issues of both, so he took the opinions of others. I would be interested to know what he thinks now.
As it is said in the investment world, past performance does not predict future results. I believe that Gowdy was looking at what he had heard from others about the stellar side of both Mueller and Comey. But I would hope that now he is questioning both. He is not the type of individual that will run to a microphone to trash Mueller or Comey. He will keep his powder dry.
But, maybe I am making the same mistake with TG.
I read an article this morning that suggested that the reason that PDJT doesn’t unclassify the requested documents is because the tentacles of FISA abuse and the intricately involved deep state would collapse the government if the public were to become aware of the abuses since the Patriot Act. It was made by a person who had experience with the NSA and CIA.
Remember that Flynn, when entering a guilty plea, said something along the lines of pleading guilty because the stress and hardship on his family. He also said that he had a story to tell, and he would tell it at the proper time. The thought by the operator was that the NSA and Deep State is making Flynn an example of how they can “roll” a good man. Their focus is not on PDJT, it is on preserving the illicit, corrupt culture that they crave by demonstrating the power they exert.
Keep your powder dry, my Friend. We just may have us a shooting civil war before too long.