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 shes turned over any relevant documents hes seeking.
If she were, under some theory, able to say, yes, I can promise you under penalty of perjury you have every single document youre entitled to, that would probably shut off that line of inquiry, Rep. Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, told USA Todays 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 didnt 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 nations 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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Benghazi ping.
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“I bet he already has evidence and wants her to lie under oath.”
That’s what I’m thinking/hoping!
Bingo
Gowdy is smart, even though he plays a bit of a Country Bumpkin.
Gowdy’s prosecutorial background points in the direction,”Never ask a question, in Court, you don’t know the answer to beforehand”.
Of course we should not forget he’s having to work under the Speakership of one of the sorriest Speakers since Jim Wright.
No, this is a smart move. Hillary! is being pinned by being forced to testify under oath. Once she does that she comes under perjury charges.
Gowdy’s thinking strategically here. This is good.
Gowdy: If she were, under some theory, able to say, yes, I can promise you under penalty of perjury you have every single document youre entitled to, that would probably shut off that line of inquiry.
The media cannot now claim this is a witch hunt or fishing expedition. It closes off the one tool Hillary! has: the media. Gowdy’s simply asking her to come in and talk under oath.
If she’s honest and this is all just a big hullabaloo, then all’s well. She’s testified before and she’s in DC all the time. This will grind her up and is grist to the mill for our side.
Perjury is no big deal to the committee. They have had a constant stream of liars. They are all breaking rocks! NOT
He might be thinking he has something she is unaware of, but in that case he would be sorely mistaken. I am confident she knows everything that he has, and has a strategy to counter it.
Our government is entirely corrupted. Both parties are involved. There is but a pitifully small powerless group left to defend the rights of the people against the ruling elite of both parties.
Did you really read what he said, “... under penalty of perjury” .. which means that if they gain access to the “erased emails” .. and they indicate that SHE LIED .. under the “penalty of perjury” .. she could be charged.
Mr. Gowdy is not a fool.
Read Gowdy’s words. Hitlery will never swear to anything about her e-mail under penalty of perjury and Gowdy knows it.
The knee jerks around here get so tiresome! If they don’t like their Congressthing, let them run for office or stfu. It’s so easy to sit behind a keyboard and complain about what those in the arena are doing.
I think he has some very relevant tricks up his sleeve. He is a bulldog and doesn’t give up easily. I think he’s setting her up....IMHO....
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