{"id":96663,"date":"2017-10-18T03:02:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/gowdy-wants-comey-to-testify-again-following-clinton-email-draft-release.html"},"modified":"2017-10-18T03:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T03:02:46","slug":"gowdy-wants-comey-to-testify-again-following-clinton-email-draft-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/gowdy-wants-comey-to-testify-again-following-clinton-email-draft-release.html","title":{"rendered":"Gowdy wants Comey to testify again following Clinton email draft release"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rep. Gowdy on Comey: The chronology does not add up<\/a><\/h4>\n

The former FBI director denied giving Clinton special treatment; congressman gives his take on ‘Special Report.’<\/p>\n

Following the FBI\u2019s release of documents<\/a> confirming that former FBI Director James Comey began drafting a letter on the Hillary Clinton email investigation months before completing several interviews, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. said Comey needs to testify before Congress again.<\/p>\n

Gowdy, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee and a member of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee, told Fox News\u2019 Bret Baier on \u201cSpecial Report\u201d Tuesday night that \u201cfor a number of reasons\u201d Comey should return to Capitol Hill and the committees needed to further examine the FBI memos before he did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever somebody decides to charge someone, there are lots of layers of scrutiny. When you decide not to charge someone, there aren\u2019t that many layers of scrutiny but there ought to be at least a couple,\u201d Gowdy said. \u201cThe media should do it but also Congress should look at this decision not to charge and whether or not it was made before you interviewed two dozen witnesses, including the target of the investigation, yeah we need to talk to him again.\u201d<\/p>\n

COMEY INSISTED NO \u2018SPECIAL\u2019 RULES IN FBI CLINTON PROBE \u2013 WHIEL DRAFTING \u2018EXONERATION STATEMENT\u2019<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

According to Gowdy, the timeline of events and some of Comey\u2019s decisions along the way did not appear to add up. He was referring to Comey\u2019s statement during his June congressional testimony<\/a> in which he said the tarmac meeting between former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton encouraged him to announce his findings in the email investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis ostensible reason for taking that decision away from the Department of Justice was that meeting on the tarmac but yet a month and a half earlier he is memorializing a decision he\u2019s already made so the chronology does not add up,\u201d Gowdy said. \u201cHis answers have been all over the map.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gowdy also told the Fox News anchor that he not only wants to talk to Comey, but also plans to speak to his former colleagues.<\/p>\n

When asked whether Loretta Lynch, who is expected to be on Capitol Hill Friday concerning the Russia investigation, would be asked about Comey\u2019s email draft, Gowdy said she would not.<\/p>\n

COMEY DRAFTED LETTER ON CLINTON EMAIL INVESTIGATION BEFORE COMPLETING INTERVIEWS, FBI CONFIRMS<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

But he said there were \u201clots of reasons\u201d to talk to her as well, in that she could \u201ccorroborate or contradict Comey\u2019s recollection\u201d about their conversation regarding his decision to make the announcement.<\/p>\n

Baier\u2019s interview also touched on Gowdy\u2019s investigation into Samantha Power, the former ambassador to the United Nations during the Obama administration, and her office\u2019s request to unmask at least 260 individuals heard on surveillance recordings.<\/p>\n

Gowdy said during questioning, Power testified that she had not personally made all of the requests, despite them being filed under her name. He said the committee had to find out whether someone else in the intelligence community was actually behind those requests.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Gowdy on Comey: The chronology does not add up The former FBI director denied giving Clinton special treatment; congressman gives his take on ‘Special Report.’ Following the FBI\u2019s release of documents confirming that former FBI Director James Comey began drafting a letter on the Hillary Clinton email investigation months before completing several interviews, Rep. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-96663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}