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Gowdy Suggests Clinton Connections To Justice Department Run Deep

"... the only decision he could have made ..."

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., offered praise for embattled former FBI Director James Comey Tuesday night and seconded the comment from Fox News host Martha McCallum that the Clintons’ “entanglements” with the Justice Department run deep.

As he discussed Comey’s July 2016 press conference in which he announced Hillary Clinton would not be charged for her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, Gowdy said “history will be much kinder to Jim Comey in that July press conference than the Democrats were.”

“I think he had access to information that, because he is a stand-up guy, he is not going to disseminate classified information — though God knows everybody else is — even if it cast him in a negative light,” he said.

“I know what it was,” Gowdy said of Comey’s decision. “He made the only decision he could have made with respect to appropriating that decision away from the Department of Justice and making the decision himself.”

“I know what it was,” Gowdy said of Comey’s decision. “He made the only decision he could have made with respect to appropriating that decision away from the Department of Justice and making the decision himself.”

Comey said in testimony before Congress earlier this month that as the investigation of Clinton’s emails was nearing its close, he was worried about the integrity of the Justice Department.

“A number of things had gone on, some of which I can’t talk about yet, that made me worry that the department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and declined prosecution without grievous damage to the American people’s confidence in the — in the justice system,” Comey said at the time.

“And then the capper was — and I’m not picking on the Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who I like very much — but her meeting with President Clinton on that airplane was the capper for me. And I then said, you know what, the department cannot by itself credibly end this,” he said.

Gowdy said it’s obvious Comey knew a lot more about what happened in that meeting.

“All your viewers see is this meeting on the tarmac,” Gowdy told McCallum Tuesday night. “Jim Comey had access to additional information that I am convinced left him with no other choice than to make a decision he made in July.”

http://www.westernjournalism.com/gowdy-suggests-clinton-connections-justice-department-run-deep/