Congressman Trey Gowdy (R- South Carolina) has had enough of the crap that has been tearing our country apart.
Since President Trump’s inauguration, there has been a scourge on our nation. Barack Obama and his “Deep State” have done everything in their power to subvert the will of the American people and their elected President.
If anyone can make it stop, it’s Trey Gowdy. This morning Gowdy presented a federal judge with a witness list and set of affidavits asking for warrants to monitor and search the electronic communications of Barack Obama and Joe Biden along with several other key members of Obama’s secret regime.
Gowdy will be putting together a new panel to investigate that will only include one Democrat since all of the others are listed as potential witnesses or defendants.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Trey Gowdy used Monday's House Intelligence Committee hearing to cite Obama administration officials, including the former president, as potential sources for leaks.
The South Carolina Republican was questioning FBI Director James Comey during the House Intelligence Committee’s hearing as part of its investigation into Russian interference with the U.S. election.
Like many of his Republican colleagues, Gowdy used his time to focus on recent leaks of classified information to journalists. But he went a step further by raising specific names of people from the former administration to show they had access to leaked classified material, implying they might have been sources of the leaks.
“I’ll just ask you, did you brief President Obama on any calls involving Michael Flynn?” Gowdy asked. He was referring specifically to leaked information regarding a phone call between Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, and the ambassador to Russia during the transition. The reports showed that Flynn had discussed sanctions and the discovery ultimately led to his resignation.
Gowdy argued that “unmasking” Flynn’s name was a felony because it was part of a confidential intelligence gathering and had previously been “masked” to protect his identity.
“I’m not going to get either that particular case, that matter, or any conversations I had involving the president. So I can’t answer that question,” Comey responded.
But Obama wasn’t the only one. Gowdy also rattled down a list of people who had held high-ranking positions in the Obama administrationor were heads of government agencies and asked whether each would have had access to the “unmasked” name. He included former director of national intelligence James Clapper, former CIA director John Brennan, former national security adviser Susan Rice, former White House adviser Ben Rhodes, former attorney general Loretta Lynch and former deputy attorney general Sally Yates.
Comey confirmed that in general most of them would have some level of access, though he said he did not know about Rhodes, a former National Security Council aide.
“In the universe of possible motives of felonious dissemination of classified material, we could rule out wanting to help the intelligence communities and the law enforcement communities. Those are two motives that are gone now, that leaves more nefarious motives," Gowdy said.
Gowdy was seeking a specific number of people at high levels of the government who had the ability to unmask — National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers had said earlier in the hearing 20 people in the NSA had the ability — but Comey said he didn't know the exact number at the FBI, though he conceded it was probably more than at the NSA.
"I think, Director Comey, given the fact that you and I agree this is critical, vital, indispensable — a similar program is coming up for reauthorization this fall with a pretty strong headwind right now — it would be nice to know the universe of people who have the power to unmask a U.S. citizen's name, because that might provide something of a roadmap to investigate who might have actually disseminated a masked U.S. citizen's name," Gowdy responded.
“Is the investigation into the leak of classified information, has it begun yet?” Gowdy continued.
“I can’t say because I don’t want to confirm whether that was classified information,” Comey responded.
Gowdy urged Comey to investigate the leaks to make sure that classified information wasn't released in the future.
"I'll bet you my fellow citizens are rethinking their side of the equation. Because that U.S. citizen could be them next time. It could be you. It could be me. It could be anyone until we start seriously investigating and prosecuting what Congress thought was serious enough to attach a 10-year felony to," Gowdy said.
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