Michael Horowitz and Christopher Wray are about to testify before OGR and HJC. Today's hearing will be FAR more contentious than yesterday's. I'm thinking of it as "The Fight for Trey Gowdy's Soul."
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Gowdy calls Comey "sanctimonious." Can't say I disagree with him.
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There's an irony of the Hillary investigation: Had 1) Hillary not been the sole target or 2) Congress referred false statements rather than leaking classified info, the outcome would have been different.
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Hoping
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Cummings notes that OGR has not issued a single subpoena to investigate Trump. Raises family separation. Should raise Pruitt, since Gowdy has agreed that's an egregious problem (and since Trump is keeping Pruitt to replace Sessions with).
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Cummings now yelling about family separations. "What country is this?" "This was a policy implemented and executed by Donald Trump."
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Goodlatte immediately says this is about two investigations (Hillary's email and Ru). Except we won't be able to talk about RU (and none of the people conducting RU investigation invited).
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Goodlatte now complaining that Hillary got special treatment. She did, on her interview!! But of course, Trump WON'T DO an interview.
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28 minutes in and we're still 10 minutes away from hearing Horowitz.
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Goodlatte, the head of the House Judiciary Committee, now bitching about prosecutorial discretion.
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Nadler starts by describing what the report does not do (such as exonerating Trump on Russia).
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Nadler: Every decision criticized inured to benefit of Trump.
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Nadler reminds that "the President's campaign manager is in jail."
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Beginning to worry that Michael Horowitz is going to have to break Hillary's record for an 11 hour committee appearance. 37 minutes in and we haven't heard from him yet.
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Nadler notes that House Republicans have done nothing to defend the next election, also raises ACA and family separation. Says if House cared abt classified info they'd do something abt Trump leaking Israel info, Trump & CLASS docs at Mar-a-Lago.
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BREAKING! 40 minutes in Horowitz utters his first word, "I do," in being sworn in.
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Gowdy saying that most of Page's offending comments were before Clinton investigation over. Except he's talking about an August exchange.
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Gowdy missing three details: 1) Strzok is the guy who said Mike Flynn showed no physical sign of deceit 2) He wasn't sure there was a three there 3) He lost fight to investigate Trump aggressively during campaign
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After taking 19 minutes for his question, Elizabeth Holmes Norton asks for "guidance" on how long each member will have to ask questions.
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Remember what they're comparing Hillary's server to wrt Alberto Gonzales: Gonzales kept basically a CYA file covering both the torture program and the Stellar Wind program at his home.
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Horowitz reminds that Comey had a policy of no comment on both Russian and Clinton Foundation investigations.
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Now Cummings doing the posturing. "My copy must be missing a few pages. Did your report focus on Russian investigation?"
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Horowitz: For some of these decisions, the individuals were seeking more aggressive actions than prosecutors were seeking.
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Horowitz on unanimity of conclusion in IG Report. "I'm comfortable saying this is the conclusion of all of us, that was our team conclusion of it." Tho emphasizes unanimity abt seriousness of conduct.
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Goodlatte asking if they sought WH interviews. Would you have liked that information? Horowitz not sure.
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Bob Goodlatte now making the case the the FUCKING ESPIONAGE ACT shouldn't require intent.
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Horowitz declines to answer whether he thinks Comey should be fired. Goodlatte made a GREAT case that Comey should be fired for hurting Hillary's presidential campaign tho.
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Nadler asks did you find evidence of any crime by Comey. Horowitz defers. He is investigating Comey, and he has deferred questions abt criminal investigations, in part bc of McCabe referral.
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Are other people getting a crappy CSPAN 3 feed over cable, or should I blame Comcast for that?
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