President Donald Trump has tapped former Rep. Trey Gowdy to serve as outside counsel during the House impeachment inquiry, which is focused on the president’s appeals to foreign governments to investigate one of his political rivals ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Republicans turned to Gowdy at the time to give the Benghazi investigation a sheen of credibility amid accusations that it was a partisan fishing expedition against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was readying a campaign for president. Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor, was held in high regard by his colleagues as one of the most skilled questioners and legal experts in Congress.
As chair of the Benghazi committee, Gowdy maintained he wasn’t simply out to torpedo Clinton’s presidential chances and pointed to the panel’s interviews with 81 witnesses and its review of 75,000 additional pages of documents from the Obama administration. Clinton herself sat for an 11-hour hearing in 2015 in which she was grilled extensively over the Libya attack.
But Gowdy appeared to hold the opposite opinion about the value of Congress’ oversight powers in 2012. After the Obama White House invoked executive privilege over some documents during the Fast and Furious investigation, the congressman blasted the Obama administration for doing the same thing the Trump administration seems to be doing now.
There was actual bad sht going on back then. Maybe he learned something from Dems that’ll help out with this farce.
Whoever yanked a knot in 3's head didn't do a good enough job.
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