Gowdy wants Comey to testify again following Clinton email draft release

[Coach is Back!]

Gowdy wants Comey to testify again following Clinton email draft release
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/17/rep-gowdy-wants-comey-to-testify-again-following-clinton-email-draft-release.html

[The Ugly]

Imagine he'll probably wanna get to the bottom of this nasty clusterfuck in Niger first. He's pretty passionate about these 'four dead Americans'-type debacles.

But a new, totally non-partisan investigation's probably gonna set him back another two years. Assuming he's still all thorough and probey like he was with the last administration. Which is what we flag-loving patriots want, yeah?

[Skeletor]

Comey edits revealed: Remarks on Clinton probe were watered down, documents show

Newly released documents obtained by Fox News reveal that then-FBI Director James Comey’s draft statement on the Hillary Clinton email probe was edited numerous times before his public announcement, in ways that seemed to water down the bureau’s findings considerably.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, sent a letter to the FBI on Thursday that shows the multiple edits to Comey’s highly scrutinized statement.

In an early draft, Comey said it was “reasonably likely” that “hostile actors” gained access to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account. That was changed later to say the scenario was merely “possible.”

Another edit showed language was changed to describe the actions of Clinton and her colleagues as “extremely careless” as opposed to “grossly negligent.” This is a key legal distinction.

Johnson, writing about his concerns in a letter Thursday to FBI Director Christopher Wray, said the original “could be read as a finding of criminality in Secretary Clinton’s handling of classified material.”

He added, “The edited statement deleted the reference to gross negligence – a legal threshold for mishandling classified material – and instead replaced it with an exculpatory sentence.”

The edits also showed that references to specific potential violations of statutes on “gross negligence” regarding classified information and “misdemeanor handling” were removed.

The final statement also removed a reference to the “sheer volume” of classified information discussed on email.

“While the precise dates of the edits and identities of the editors are not apparent from the documents, the edits appear to change the tone and substance of Director Comey’s statement in at least three respects,” Johnson wrote Thursday.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/14/comey-edits-revealed-remarks-on-clinton-probe-were-watered-down-documents-show.html

[Thin Lizzy]

I just don’t see the point. It’s not as though Congress can do anything. It’s just a bunch of grandstanding.

[SOMEPARTS]

I just don’t see the point. It’s not as though Congress can do anything. It’s just a bunch of grandstanding.

Not when Jeff Sessions is afraid to do anything even when all the work is done for him.