Gowdy Admits Redactions In Document That Appears To Frame Clinton

Posted by | October 19, 2015 11:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Trey Gowdy admits there were made redactions in a document that seemingly frames Hillary Clinton. Gowdy’s admission comes in response to the accusation by Rep. Elijah Cummings that contract what the CIA is saying about classified information. Cummings wrote, in part:

To further inflate your claim, you placed your own redactions over the name of the individual with the words, “redacted due to sources and methods.”  To be clear, these redactions were not made, and these words were not added, by any agency of the federal government responsible for enforcing classification guidelines.    Predictably, commentators began repeating your accusations in even more extreme terms, suggesting in headlines for example that “Clinton Burns CIA Libya Contact.”

Contrary to your claims, the CIA yesterday informed both the Republican and Democratic staffs of the Select Committee that they do not consider the information you highlighted in your letter to be classified.  Specifically, the CIA confirmed that “the State Department consulted with the CIA on this production, the CIA reviewed these documents, and the CIA made no redactions to protect classified information.”

Unfortunately, you sent your letter on October 7 without checking first with the CIA.  Now that we have done so, we have learned that your accusations were incorrect.

Gowdy admits in his response that he redacted information on his own:

[M]y understanding is the CIA advised the Committee in a very brief email late Saturday night that it had reviewed the material in question and asked for no material to be redacted [. . . ]Our Committee has access to career civil servants, former federal prosecutors, former intelligence experts as well as military experts who are uniquely well suited to gauge intelligence information and how it should be handled. Although the Executive Branch is ultimately responsible for classification, we remain concerned with the naming of sources and methods and will continue to protect that information now and going forward where it is readily apparent to us. As such, we will continue to redact certain information to protect sensitive information regardless of how others treat that information…

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19 responses to Gowdy Admits Redactions In Document That Appears To Frame Clinton

  1. tracey marie October 19th, 2015 at 11:19

    Gowdy lied and is soubling down on that lie and smear

    • Guy Lauten October 19th, 2015 at 16:27

      Doubling down is all he can do anymore. He has backed himself and the GOP members on the committee against a wall with his lies and half-truths and now they have no face-saving way out. The appearance of Ms. Clinton should prove high-theater. I have a feeling they will be shot against that wall Mr. Gowdy has put them on.

      • granpa.usthai October 20th, 2015 at 00:44

        chicken gowdy will no doubt find an excuse not to be there. for some reason, he appears to be terrified of facing women with ‘balls’ so to speak.

  2. anothertoothpick October 19th, 2015 at 11:33

    These goddamn emails are going to be the downfall of gowdy doody yet.

    I hope clinton brings this up at the hearings. Those hearings are all dog and pony shows anyway.

  3. rg9rts October 19th, 2015 at 11:44

    How about an indictment of howdy gowdy

  4. Foundryman October 19th, 2015 at 13:10

    Hillary is going to get her chance on Thursday to rip Gowdy a new ass and tear that committee to shreds, I hope she leaves no prisoners.

    All that politeness is sickening in these hearings, I hope somebody throws a shoe at him.

    • DogsRgoodpeople October 19th, 2015 at 13:31

      Yeah, yeah , Hillary might be able to do that. Yeah , that would be freaking awesome

    • fahvel October 20th, 2015 at 02:38

      oh please be right – cajones seem to be missing in the us theatre of politics.

  5. Warman1138 October 19th, 2015 at 14:16

    Gowdy and pals would do crimes if they could pin it on somebody else. Oh! Maybe they already have?

  6. Gina Bousquet October 19th, 2015 at 15:05

    Gowdy is naked, like the proverbial king.

  7. Buford2k11 October 19th, 2015 at 16:24

    Hmm..typical gop…stooping to criminal means for political gains…

  8. William October 19th, 2015 at 16:57

    Profiles in douchebaggery.

  9. FatRat October 19th, 2015 at 17:06

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w9XO9zBePXE/SkIAwzkNLOI/AAAAAAAABe4/woJBmzxO4uo/s400/redacted_cartoon.jpg

  10. granpa.usthai October 20th, 2015 at 00:47

    how cool would it be if POTUS2B Hillary called gowdey out on his lies/misleading half truths/fabricated BS ON THE RECORD and demanded an apology for each and every one?

    • fahvel October 20th, 2015 at 02:37

      it would be fine – call me when even one of your pols actually challenges another with some serious shit.

  11. CandideThirtythree October 20th, 2015 at 04:54

    republican policies are so horrible that the only way they can win is to cheat.

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  12. WhodaThunkit October 20th, 2015 at 15:03

    The sleaze factor in the Repugnican party is stiefeling

  13. Landscapegoat October 20th, 2015 at 17:20

    I don’t how Cummings can just sit there and listen to this farce. I’d be screamimg “you lie” every time one of the conjobs opens their mouth.

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