Posted on 05/19/2019 5:30:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., says there are unreleased transcripts of recorded conversations between FBI informants and former Trump campaign associate George Papadopoulos that “has the potential to be a game changer.”
In a Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, the former House Oversight Committee chairman said when the FBI listens in on phone calls or sends in an informant wearing a wire then “there’s a transcript of that” and that “one in particular has the potential to actually persuade people.”
In laying out a series of questions about the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into President Trump's campaign and the FBI and Justice Department's handling of the operation, Gowdy listed a series of questions he thinks need to be answered, including: “Where are the transcripts, if any exist, between the informants and the telephone calls to George Papadopoulos?”
During special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to and was sentenced to 14 days in jail for lying to the FBI about his conversations with London-based professor Joseph Mifsud, who allegedly told Papadopoulos that the Russians had damaging information about Hillary Clinton, Trump's Democratic rival in the 2016 election. Stefan Halper, a Cambridge professor who was working with the FBI as an informant, and Azra Turk, a woman posing as Halper's assistant and using an alias, met with Papadopoulos in 2016 during the presidential campaign.
Republican lawmakers who have seen the relevant documents believe exculpatory evidence related to Papadopoulos was not included in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications targeting former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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In before people saying Gowdy was useless.
He was a congressman, not a prosecutor. I’m sure he made tons of recommendations hussein’s DOJ. Do you all really think Holder and Lynch would have done anything?
Wow, uh....this is weird.
I mean, this is good.
+1
Sorry but Trey Gowdy had his moment with history and utterly failed. When the Republicans had power in the Judiciary committee , they yelped quite a bit but never took decisive steps to hold the Obama acolytes accountable. Worse yet is when Gowdy investigated the Benghazi debacle, he never found out who gave the order to stand down. The 6th Fleet patrols the eastern Mediterranean and was monitoring the cries for help from those besieged, doomed Americans. Any US naval commander would have steamed at flank speed toward Benghazi and would have been assembling an assault team of on board Marines and Seals. Why didn’t Gowdy subpoena the Commander of those ships and get to the bottom of that dastardly order to stand down?
The Uniparty truly expected its coup d’etat to succeed. And that their malfeasance would never come light
I’m not so sure. Republicans respect the rule of law. He is now free to speak his mind from his knowledge.
Understanding the difference is complex.
Here's an explanation of it by a FReeper who used to be part of a team that executed embassy rescues.
Travis McGeeBut while all of that military staging would have happened/did happen, what they cannot do on their own say-so is cross an international border without permission of the “Libyan Govt.”
(snip)
Anyway, no General or Admiral will order the Marines ashore or Delta or even an F-18 low-level supersonic flyby.
Nada. Zip. Because the POTUS retired for the night with a “do not disturb” sign, punted, and went to bed, to be well rested for Las Vegas.
More at the link.
0bama went to bed (my title for the bookmark)
Explanation of embassy rescues (my title for the bookmark)
Nonsense. An American consulate and Americans were under attack. Most eventually died while the support they needed and would have probably saved them sat off shore and was ordered to stand down. The people who survived and the families of the dead need to know why they were abandoned. Gowdy and congress had the responsibility to find out exactly what happened and why. At the very least to prevent it happening again. Gowdy and Congress failed. The media , perennially covering for Obama, was worse than useless.
You are flat wrong. They need an order to cross the border.
There was no, is no such thing as, a “stand down” order.
Title for next season hit TV show, “As the Onion Peels”.
The Bush League Republicans are terrified that their assistance with the Kenyanesian Usurpation will come to light.
That’s why Obama is untouchable.
Add this to the report from JW that the FISA warrants were issued without a single hearing, but rather, on the contents of the submitted affidavits, ONLY, and you have, again, substantiated a thinly veiled attempt at a coup.
I am of the opinion that intentionally withholding evidence is de facto obstruction of justice.
Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Why is your question (post #5) so hard to answer?
I understood the specials operators on scene were given a stand down order, but ignored it and prevented a massacre.
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