House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) released the transcript of the committees’ interview with former FBI Director James Comey from Friday.
After the interview concluded Friday, Comey said the committee primarily quizzed him on the FBI’s past investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Read the transcript below:
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Not even ten pages in, and Matt Gaetz is already a huge douchey asshole.
I read some of the Gowdy and then bailed. Still banging that same old drum, looking for the imaginary conspiracy that will kiss the boo-boo of the real conspiracy and make it all better. Pathetic and contemptible. All because two citizens expressed the opinion that Hillary Clinton was a reasonable prospective President and Trump was a terrible one. That’s really it. Un-be-liev-a-ble.
And that’s after the first five pages were taken up with personal introductions.
Yes, 11 pages in and they have only introduced themselves, the witness and his attorney, and argued about the agreement not to overtly politicize the hearing by making statements of half-truths (or completely out of context quotations) while the hearing is still proceeding. (They just cannot wait to find a microphone to start spreading nonsense about an FBI conspiracy to get Trump, and to exonerate Hillary.)
. . . and there is the sound bite they want: Clinton Espionage Act (but Comey was quick to catch the innuendo) . . . and they suddenly seem very sensitive when he mentions Russia, even in a completely different context.
(There seems to be a typo on p. 24:
Mr. Comey. Do you recall seeing the phrase “Trump campaign” in that initiation document?
I presume that has to be Mr. Gowdy who asked the question, otherwise Comey is speaking multiple parts. (I also presume that it should be Gowdy because it is a very stupid question to ask, basically asking if you saw a particular phrase in a document that you already said that you don’t recall having seen at all.)
Now they can add those ten pages to the three pages of their accomplishments of the past two years.