Grilling of Comey on Emails Even More Humiliating for GOP Than Benghazi Hearing
Congressional Republicans, unhappy with FBI Director James Comey’s unwillingness to cooperate with their partisan fishing expedition against Hillary Clinton, dragged him in to testify. It quickly became apparent that this would blow up in their faces.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz — the ringleader of this embarrassment — and his Republican colleagues look like petulant children playing lawyer. Comey, on the other hand, has handled the GOP’s rhetorical fire calmly and professionally.
It’s rich that Chaffetz, and his BFF Rep. Trey Gowdy, are leading this contemptible display, given their own histories: Chaffetz, whose Congressional business card is printed with his gmail address, had to be reprimanded by Homeland Security for “an inappropriate disclosure of sensitive security information to the press by the House transportation panel that he chairs.”
Gowdy, meanwhile, has the distinction of accidentally disclosing “the name of a CIA source in the midst of a back-and-forth with Democrats about how sensitive the information was and whether its presence in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account constituted a security breach.” Whoops.
It is without a trace of irony that these men lead the charge against Hillary, demanding to know from Comey why she hasn’t been brought up on criminal charges.
The hearing has, unsurprisingly, been a series of humiliations for the GOP in response to their attempted gotcha questions for Comey. His testimony has confirmed that, in fact, the FBI really did do the thorough investigation he asserted. Yes, they asked this question. Yes, they explored that avenue. No, Hillary did not break the law.
Comey has now made it clear that the year-long investigation of 55,000 Hillary emails did not reveal a single email clearly marked classified. Only three — just three — of Hillary’s emails “bore markings indicating the presence of classified information.” “Bore markings” is not the same thing as “marked classified.” Comey said that those markings were simply a (c) somewhere in the body of the email and nothing in the header or subject line. He further stated that they were improperly marked and that it was reasonable for Hillary to assume they were not classified.
Rep. William Lacy Clay, Jr., a Democrat from Missouri, gets right to the heart of what a futile exercise this really is:
http://bluenationreview.com/grilling-of-comey-on-emails-even-more-humiliating-for-gop-than-benghazi-hearing/
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