Valin Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Politico Magazine: MICHAEL HIRSH March 12, 2015 It’s late Wednesday afternoon, the day after Hillary Clinton’s defiant I’m-telling-you-this-and-nothing-more news conference at the United Nations and Trey Gowdy — who’s now seen as her No. 1 antagonist on Benghazi — is all over the news up in Washington. But this is the middle of South Carolina, Gowdy’s home district, and the two-term congressman pulls into a Cracker Barrel on State Highway 183 — where I’m waiting to meet him — alone at the wheel of a filthy silver Toyota Corolla. Gowdy gets out, hands me the keys and drawls, “Car’s over there. Got to go to the men’s room.” Inside the Corolla, crud from some ancient condiment spill has permanently affixed itself to the gear-shift console, and a thick layer of dust covers the dash. Stuffed into the passenger back seat pocket is a battered loose-leaf notebook labeled “Benghazi ARB”—which, when I point it out to him, Gowdy leafs through as if he’s discovering a long-lost document. “Oh yeah, this was our hearing on the Accountability Review Board,” he says. “Forgot it was there.” The day before, Gowdy had made all the right Washington moves. Clinton had barely stepped away from the microphone before Gowdy’s office released a statement, chiding the insufficiency of her answers, demanding Clinton turn over the personal computer server and promising to require her to “appear at least twice” before Gowdy’s committee. A few hundred miles and a news cycle away from the capital, maneuvering the car onto the rainy highway, bound for a lecture at Clemson University, the voluble and relaxed former prosecutor sounds less like the Grand Inquisitor and more like the fair-minded judge that he has long aspired to be. Contrary to all rumor and innuendo, Gowdy says he is completely open to the idea that Clinton may have done nothing wrong while secretary of state. He has publicly pointed out “gaps” that go for “months" in the materials she has provided on Benghazi. But he insists he’s not accusing her of anything; he just doesn’t know yet, he says. (Snip) Mick Mulvaney, Gowdy’s friend and fellow member of the close-knit South Carolina congressional caucus, says selecting the 50-year-old Gowdy was a big risk for Boehner, who remains on permanently thin ice with his right-wing base. “I think he’s more well-suited to be judge than a politician, which is why he was a great choice on one hand, but also a very dangerous choice for Boehner,” says Mulvaney. “He’s brutally fair, and brutally honest, and brutally transparent. While everyone assumes he’ll find something on Benghazi, it’s entirely plausible that he finds no wrongdoing, and if he does there are going to be some Republicans who are not happy with that finding.” (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Draggingtree Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 This POLITICO story has everythingBy: Joe Cunningham (Diary) | March 13th, 2015 at 12:00 PM (Trigger Warning: POLITICO) You guys might have heard about this silly e-mail thing that involves Hillary Clinton. If you haven’t, here’s the recap, courtesy Ace of Spades’ John Ekdahl. Suffice it to say, what is written in this TIME article is certainly enough to perhaps inspire someone to go after Mrs. Clinton for deleting half of her e-mails without ever opening them (emphasis below is mine). She commissioned a review of the 62,320 messages in her account only after the department–spurred by the congressional investigation–asked her to do so. And this review did not involve opening and reading each email; instead, Clinton’s lawyers created a list of names and keywords related to her work and searched for those. Slightly more than half the total cache–31,830 emails–did not contain any of the search terms, according to Clinton’s staff, so they were deemed to be “private, personal records.” And they were deleted. http://www.redstate.com/2015/03/13/politico-story-everything/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino67 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Another article about what is now called 'Emailgate'. "Emailgate: What Was Just Revealed About Hillary’s Deleted Messages Fuels The Firestorm" Read more at http://http://www.westernjournalism.com/emailgate-just-revealed-hillarys-deleted-messages-fuels-firestorm/#k3z3GtG70tQKwdjx.97 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 Another article about what is now called 'Emailgate'. "Emailgate: What Was Just Revealed About Hillary’s Deleted Messages Fuels The Firestorm" Read more at http://http://www.westernjournalism.com/emailgate-just-revealed-hillarys-deleted-messages-fuels-firestorm/#k3z3GtG70tQKwdjx.97 Bad Link "Emailgate: What Was Just Revealed About Hillary’s Deleted Messages Fuels The Firestorm" Fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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