Situation normal, blithe, irresponsible, feckless prescription after what is a stunning statement about Hillary Clinton
Trey Gowdy – same question after your stunning statement
Speaker Paul Ryan (PR) appeared on the Hugh Hewitt radio show yesterday, this is the transcript of the part that astounds us (as available on the HH web site). Hugh Hewitt makes a statement and asks for a response from Ryan — (bold our emphasis)
HH : . . . The sequence of events leading up to the destruction of Secretary Clinton’s emails, the conference call, the work ticket, the use of BleachBit, and PRN’s subsequent refusal to discuss a conference call with the FBI, raises questions about whether Secretary Clinton acting through her attorneys instructed PRN to destroy records relevant to the ongoing Congressional investigation.” Are you concerned, Speaker Ryan, that the House is being denied its Constitutional oversight by an FBI that is indifferent to what is obviously an obstruction of justice?
PR: Yes, and it’s not the first time we’ve experienced this. I was part of the IRS investigation in my last job here in Congress, and I would say it’s a very, very similar story. It’s a story of stonewalling. The reason we know about these things is because of our investigation, our oversight. Jason Chaffetz is doing a great job. You know all of these things that you just discussed because of our oversight. But as we do this oversight, we see more obfuscation. We see more misleading. We see that the claims that were made, you know, six months, a year ago, about servers and emails and devices are now, were false when they were made, knowingly false. So we clearly see that she’s not being truthful. We clearly see, and also with our investigations, you see the Clinton Foundation and all what I would call the pay to play, just basically the stink of corruption surrounding that. So this is not a new story, unfortunately, with the Clintons. But it’s an ongoing one, and that is, to me, very alarming. One of the things we’re doing, we’re walking and chewing gum at the same time. We’re doing our oversight to try and bring truth to power, to try and uncover these things so that people don’t live above the law. And we’re offering a better way. We’re offering an agenda of how we would fix these problems. But more fundamental, I do believe, because you said in the first part of your point, I’m the officer of the Constitution here, preserver of Article I, if you go to our Better Way Agenda, and go to www.better.gop, you will see that item number three and four is a specific plan to resuscitate the separation of powers, and reclaim our Article I powers of the Constitution, because the other branches of government have overstepped their boundaries. And they’re all kicking their coverage, if we’re going to go back to Aaron Rodgers and football metaphors. And we have a very specific plan for getting Article I back so that we restore the principle of self-government and an accountable government.
HH: This is vital. Now yesterday, Director Comey put out a memo to his staff saying we didn’t do a data dump on Friday, it’s all not fair.
PR: On Friday of Labor Day.
HH: Yeah, so what, have you lost confidence in Director Comey?
PR: Well, I have spoken with him, and I said before, a month or two ago, you know, you owe it to the country to release the information that you got in your investigation so that the country can see this. I expected him to release that information. But I did not, I don’t know why they thought it wouldn’t look too cute by half releasing it in the typical political data dump Friday of Labor Day. That judgment mystifies me, because it’s so clearly political in nature. That is what politicians do when they have bad news to tell that they want to get swept under the rug in order to minimize a story. They’re not, the FBI’s not supposed to be minimizing political damage of political stories. They’re supposed to be getting to the truth and holding people accountable. And so when they make things like this, it makes them look political.
If Speaker Ryan is the preserver of the Constituion he admits to being, he can do better than to muster a response to it all that he finds the Clinton lies and corruption “alarming” He can help initiate impeachment proceedings TODAY against all those still in government connected to this corruption and issue referral after referral for prosecution regarding the rest of the conspirators especially including Hillary. Instead Ryan calls for a “better way agenda — ” how utterly pathetic.
And whudda about Trey . . .
Gowdy: Clinton’s Server Was Wiped With BleachBit After a Conference Call With Her Top Aides
Katie Pavlich at TownHall reports:
Just two weeks after the New York Times busted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for using a private email server to conduct all of her government business and four weeks after the FBI started a criminal investigation into the matter, Clinton’s subpoenaed email archive was wiped with BleachBit by Platte River Networks employee Paul Combetta.
The Justice Department has reportedly granted Combetta immunity and the Clinton campaign is arguing he went rogue, deleting the archive on his own without any instruction from those close to Hillary Clinton.
“Neither Hillary Clinton nor her attorneys had knowledge of the Platte River Network employee’s actions. It appears he acted on his own and against guidance given by both Clinton’s and Platte River’s attorneys to retain all data in compliance with a congressional preservation request,” Clinton campaign spokesperson Brian Fallon told the New York Times.
But according to Rep. Trey Gowdy, who chairs the Benghazi Select Committee and sits on the House Oversight Committee, Combetta wiped the server after a conference call with Clinton’s top aides, including top Clinton aide and attorney Cheryl Mills.
“There was a conference call between David Kendall, Cheryl Mills and Platte River and then emails that had been in existence for five years, emails that he’s known about until at least December 2014, he decides to delete…just all on his own,” Gowdy explained on America’s Newsroom Friday. “That defies logic why some techie in Colorado would despite a subpoena, despite a preservation order, but after a conference call with David Kendell and Cheryl Mills decide on his own that he is going to destroy public records.”
“It was an effort to obstruct justice,” Gowdy continued.
Using BleachBit to wipe a server after a conference call with Hillary Clinton’s top aides is hardly “acting alone” or “going rogue.”
So what . . . maybe send out a fund raising letter Congressman.
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