Among others, strange pursed lips condition in DC prevented blowing the whistle
In some permutations the condition is known as lying through your teeth
Trey Gowdy admits ‘mistake’ in defending FBI during Russia investigation
Anthony Leonardi at Washington Examiner (excerpt) (bold our emphasis)
Trey Gowdy backpedaled his defense of the FBI during the Russian investigation after Fox News host Tucker Carlson confronted him about the matter.
The former South Carolina congressman said on Monday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight that he was mistaken to trust the FBI and Justice Department while special counsel Robert Mueller was conducting his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Carlson played Gowdy a clip of his own 2018 remarks in which he said, “As of now, I think Chris Wray and Rod Rosenstein are stunned whenever people think Trump is the target of their investigation … I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.”
Carlson then asked if he still maintains that position, and Gowdy responded in the negative, claiming he reneged the opinion three weeks after making the statement.
“I went over to the Department of Justice. I sat there for four hours. That’s when I saw that Peter Strzok actually initiated and approved Crossfire Hurricane. That’s when I saw the exculpatory information on George Papadopoulos. That’s when I saw, for the very first time, that it was the Trump campaign mentioned in that predicate document,” he said.
“My mistake was relying on the word of the FBI and the DOJ and not insisting on the documents,” he added.
In April 2019, Mueller released his long-awaited report on Russian election interference, which did not find evidence of criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. The investigation did, however, find substantial evidence that Russian actors actively attempted to influence the election.
Gowdy said congressional reports intended to ascertain Russia’s activities during the 2016 election validate Mueller’s conclusion about the country’s attempts, adding that he still believes the investigation was “not a witch hunt.” …
The extent, the cost, the hype, the extreme collateral damage — BUT IT WAS NOT A WITCH HUNT!!!??? with the FBI consumed with finding something even if they had to make it up???!!!
