It’s been 10 months since Washington learned that former British spy Christopher Steele, author of the so-called “Trump dossier,” took the Hillary Clinton-funded opposition research document to the FBI, which considered sponsoring the anti-Trump work at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign. Now, congressional investigators have made what is perhaps an even more consequential […]
House Judiciary Launches Investigation Into DOJ Lack of Prosecution Into Hillary’s Emails…
House Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy announced Tuesday morning a joint investigation into the FBI’s handling of the 2016 Clinton email investigation. The Republican congressmen claim there are still a “host of outstanding questions” regarding how the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI […]
Behind Closed Doors: Former UN Ambassador Claims Others Unmasked in Her Name…
Former President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations has testified that others made so-called unmasking requests in her name, House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Tuesday. “Her testimony is they may be under my name, but I did not make those requests,” Gowdy said of former Ambassador Samantha Power during an interview with […]
Gowdy Wonders If Democrats Are ‘Fearful’ Trump Dossier Is ‘A Piece Of Fiction’…
Democrats are “fearful” that the Trump dossier is “a piece of fiction,” one that the FBI used to form the basis of its investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government. That’s one theory that South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy is proposing for why Democrats are pushing back so hard against…
House Committee Subpoenas FBI, DOJ in Russia Investigation…
Byron York reports that Trey Gowdy’s House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the FBI and the Department of Justice over the origins of the fictitious Russian “dossier” that was used to smear Donald Trump during the presidential campaign: In the most significant escalation yet in the wrangling between Congress…
Trey Gowdy to Lead House Oversight Committee…
South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy was appointed as the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday afternoon. Gowdy, R-S.C., was picked by the House Republican Steering Committee as the next chairman of the committee last week and the House ratified that decision Tuesday by accepting a Republican resolution making the change. […]
Trey Gowdy Expected to Replace Jason Chaffetz on House Oversight…
Chaffetz is leaving Congress in June and will not seek re-election, as he’s reportedly going to assume an on-air role at Fox News. In his absence, the committee will need a new chairman for the high-profile position, and various members of the House Steering Committee panel (which decides the chairmanship) told Politico Gowdy could “easily” […]
Trey Gowdy Sets the Record Straight on Nunes Meeting with Trump…
Gowdy: “The chairman of House Intel briefed the Commander in Chief on something that has nothing to do with the Russian investigation. So if the Commander in Chief cannot be briefed by the chairperson of the House Intel committee on a matter that has nothing to do with the FBI investigation then I don’t know […]
Intelligence Community Put on Notice “Feloniously’ Disseminating Classified Information Needs to be Investigated (LETTER)…
Finally, we ask you [to] brief us on any efforts made by your agencies to identify those who feloniously disseminated classified or otherwise legally protected information and bring them to justice. “Unnamed gover sources” leaking confidential information, whether the information is accurate or not, is detrimental to our national security and cannot be tolerated…