Rep. Louie Gohmert provides another reason FBI Director
James Comey notified Congress that he was reopening the Crooked Hillary
investigation. That reason had less to do with conscience and more to do with
concern about perjuring himself in Congressional testimony addressing Comey’s
previous decision not to recommend prosecution.
JRH 11/1/16
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GOHMERT EXPLAINS WHY
COMEY HAD TO NOTIFY CONGRESS
Also reveals only way Hillary will 'answer for some of the things she's
done'
October 31, 2016
While many Democrats publicly fume at FBI Director James
Comey and many Republicans sense political opportunity, a member of the U.S.
House Judiciary Committee tells WND and Radio America the letter was
really Comey’s way of avoiding a perjury investigation against him in Congress.
On Friday, Comey sent a letter to
several committee and subcommittee chairman and ranking members, informing them
that new emails “pertinent to the investigation” had been discovered. Twice in
the three-paragraph letter, Comey noted his duty to keep Congress up to speed
on the case.
“Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this
material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to
complete this additional work, I believe it is important to update your
Committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony,” Comey stated.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, said this really boils
down to Comey keeping his sworn promise to lawmakers given during testimony in
the wake of the FBI refusing to recommend charges against Hillary Clinton.
“It is actually the director of the FBI avoiding lying to
Congress. He said he would update us,” Gohmert told WND and Radio America. “I
think at the time he said it, he probably did not anticipate that there was
going to be any other developments sufficient to get him to pursue the case
further.”
Shortly after the Comey letter was reported, sources within
the FBI revealed that the newly discovered emails were found on a device
belonging to Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband, former Rep.
Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y.
Gohmert said that is significant.
“If it’s true what we’re told that Weiner had emails that
were for Huma Abedin, if any of those are classified, then Huma broke the law
by allowing her husband – even though they’re married – to have access to those
emails,” Gohmert explained.
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He said that arrangement also made both Weiner and Abedin
ripe for blackmail.
“One of the reasons it’s so important for our high officials
to be above reproach is the fact that, because Weiner was doing all this
sexting, that kind of thing could have made him vulnerable to blackmail,”
Gohmert said.
He said the impending Weiner-Abedin divorce could have put
Abedin at the same risk.
“If he has emails that Huma should not have let him see,
then she could be a target for blackmail,” Gohmert said. “If Hillary were
elected, then Huma would be the closest confidante to the president of the
United States but very vulnerable to blackmail.”
Gohmert is also struck by the Clinton team demanding the FBI
reveal everything it has since this revelation comes so close to Election Day.
“It takes an awful lot of gall to say, in effect, ‘I thought
I destroyed all of those emails. I demand to know what emails you have found
because I thought I destroyed them all.’ Basically, it’s a bit of an admission
of obstruction of justice,” Gohmert said.
The congressman is disappointed the Clinton investigation
did not broaden into a probe of Clinton Foundation activities and how they
influenced Clinton’s decisions at the State Department.
“For heaven’s sake, when you’re allowing the sale of our uranium
and it ends up going to Russia and our enemies, that’s pretty amazing,” Gohmert
said. “None of that seemed to pique the interest. Some of us sure think it
sounded like there may have been crimes involved. [It] certainly merited having
a grand jury impaneled and at least [having] them look into these things.”
According to reports, the FBI did
aggressively push for permission to investigate the Clinton Foundation, but it
was forbidden from proceeding by the Justice Department. Gohmert said that
proves nothing will happen to Hillary Clinton while Loretta Lynch runs the
Justice Department.
“As long as she’s there, Hillary Clinton will never be
prosecuted,” Gohmert said. “The only chance there is that Hillary Clinton may
eventually have to answer for some of the things she’s done is if Donald Trump
is elected.”
He continued, “We have got to clean out the cesspool. It
stinks to high heaven.”
While the Clinton campaign demands to see what emails the
FBI has and simultaneously insists they are nothing of consequence, Senate
Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is taking the Comey criticism to a new
level.
In a letter, Reid is accusing Comey
of violating the Hatch Act by sending his letter so close to the election.
What’s more, Reid accused Comey of sitting on “explosive” evidence of Trump’s
ties to the Russian government.
“In my communications with you and other top officials in
the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive
information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top
advisers, and the Russian government – a foreign interest openly hostile to the
United States, which Trump praises at every opportunity. The public has a right
to know this information,” wrote Reid.
Gohmert minced few words about Reid. First, the congressman
contends Comey may have violated the Hatch Act if he didn’t send the letter
updating member of Congress on the probe.
“I think it would be a potential violation of the Hatch Act
to use his position to prevent Americans from knowing the substantial change,
the new evidence that has been found,” he said.
As for Reid himself, Gohmert said the Nevada Democrat’s
reputation is already worthless.
“For lying Harry Reid, the guy that said (2012 Republican
presidential nominee Mitt) Romney didn’t pay taxes for 10 years, it turned
out Reid had no basis. He just totally lied. He still says he is so proud he
went and lied about Romney because it helped [President Obama] win the
election,” Gohmert said.
“That tells us that Harry Reid is a guy who is so
unscrupulous, so immoral that I don’t really much care what allegations he
makes.”
While he does encourage a quick report on these new
findings, Gohmert is pleading with the FBI to do a thorough job examining the
new emails and not feel that it has to make a conclusion to meet a political
deadline.
“The FBI needs to get their reputation back, and the only
way to do that is to handle this more professionally,” he said.
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