When Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein placated Devin Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, by arranging a special meeting for him to view the documents related to the FBI "informant" -- whom Trump insists on referring to as an embedded spy -- Nunes brought along with him his legal mind, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) so he could understand what he was seeing.
Well, that meeting was held, and we haven't heard much from Nunes since then. But now Gowdy has spoken out, telling an interviewer on Fox News that: "I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got." He was also careful to point out that the information had nothing to do with President Trump himself.
This makes Gowdy the first, and so far the only, Republican to refute the false claims Trump likes to expand on at his campaign rallies -- insisting that his campaign was "infiltrated" by "spies" by his opponents. Trump has only racheted up his attacks on the whole Mueller investigation, the Justice Department, and the FBI. His latest is a bold statement reiterating his wish that he had not appointed Jeff Sessions to be his Attorney General.
I do believe that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), chair of the House Government Operations and Oversight Committee, has maintained some of the moral compass that his fellow Republicans, especially Devin Nunes and Paul Ryan, lack. Gowdy remains the investigating attorney he was before he came to Congress -- and now he's retiring back to that life, saying that the courtroom suits him better than Congress.
He can be over-bearing and border on cruelty, as when he conducted the 11 hours hearing of Hillary Clinton's testimony about the Benghazi raid. But all in all, he seems like one of the rare Republicans these days who has retained any ethical or moral core. He's one I'm sorry to see go, because I think, in the end, he does put the law first.
Ralph
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