Seems like Gowdy and Chaffetz get surprised a lot !
“What does immunity mean if the witness granted immunity still refuses to answer questions?”
“Shoddy” is a compliment to characterize the FBI’s “investigation” of the Hillary email treachery. Obama finally got the FBI Director he wanted in the first place, but had to wait until after his reelection.
“Big Jim” thus takes his place among the most ignominious “basket” of truly “deplorables” of the Obama administration: Hillary, E. Holder, Loretta Lynch, Jeh Johnson, “Ash” Carter, John Kerry, Gina “River of Gold” McCarthy , Susan “served with honor and distinction” Rice, John “IRS is me” Koskinen…did I forget anyone? Oh yeah, everybody else who’s willing to associate him/her self with Barack Obama.
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By Byron York at The Washington Examiner
Congress demands answers after surprise Clinton investigation immunity
Many observers were surprised to learn, in a New York Times report, that the contractor who destroyed Hillary Clinton’s emails while they were under a congressional subpoena received immunity from the Justice Department — and then still refused to answer some questions from the FBI. The surprised included the top two Clinton email investigators in Congress, Reps. Trey Gowdy and Jason Chaffetz, who have both pored over the Clinton materials the FBI handed over to lawmakers.
It was news to them. Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, had no idea until the Times learned it. Same for Gowdy, head of the Benghazi committee.
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And then there is the process of the FBI’s investigation itself. It’s not just the fact of the email deleter’s immunity that Congress didn’t know. Anyone who has had a chance to look over the only two documents that have been released to the public — a heavily-redacted copy of the FBI’s summary report plus the so-called “302” writeup of the agents’ interview with Clinton — has come away with some very important questions unanswered.
Like: Who actually gave the order to delete Clinton’s emails? And: Did that order come after — not before — that material was under a subpoena from Congress? And: Who decided to give the deleter immunity? And: What questions did the deleter refuse to answer? And: What does immunity mean if the witness granted immunity still refuses to answer questions? And more.
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“They gave immunity to the trigger man,” Gowdy told Fox News on Friday. “I mean, that’s why those of us who used to do it for a living didn’t like to give immunity … They immunized the one person you most want to prosecute for the destruction of government records.”
We wonder if Ol’ Trey may be missing the point as made by York. The person most wanted is the one who gave the order. We presume the immunized cannot lie, that lying would always be actionable, nor refuse to talk without breaking the immunization agreement.
DLH with R Mall
