Gowdy fabricated redactions on to Clinton's email to make it look like she'd outed a spy.

[kpete]

bigtree got there first:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251698364

Brian Beutler ✔ @brianbeutler
Gowdy fabricated redactions on to Clinton's email to make it look like she'd outed a spy. http://democrats.benghazi.house.gov/news/press-releases/cia-debunks-gowdy-s-allegation-that-clinton-email-contained-classified-cia …
9:41 AM - 18 Oct 2015

https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/655785781894737920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

CIA Debunks Gowdy’s Allegation That Clinton Email Contained Classified CIA Source
Oct 18, 2015 Press Release
Cummings Calls on Gowdy to Apologize to Clinton

WASHINGTON—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy to correct the public record after the CIA debunked Chairman Gowdy’s accusation that Secretary Clinton sent an email containing "some of the most protected information in our intelligence community, the release of which could jeopardize not only national security but human lives.”

The full letter is online here and as follows:
http://benghazi.house.gov/sites/republicans.benghazi.house.gov/files/Gowdy%20to%20EEC%2010.18.15.pdf



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UPDATE: Gowdy confesses.


After much bluster and obfuscation, Rep Trey Gowdy admits he altered the documents that he used to make false claims against Hillary Clinton in a response to a letter from Rep Elijah Cummings. The key parts:
http://benghazi.house.gov/sites/republicans.benghazi.house.gov/files/Gowdy%20to%20EEC%2010.18.15.pdf

My 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

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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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[My emphasis.]



http://benghazi.house.gov/sites/republicans.benghazi.house.gov/files/Gowdy%20to%20EEC%2010.18.15.pdf


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/18/1434655/-In-response-to-Rep-Cummings-Gowdy-confesses-he-redacted-document

[malaise]

1. This shit is coming apart really fast

It's so freaking delish!!

[DURHAM D]

10. Who do you think will play Gowdy on

SNL this coming Saturday? Should be great.

[malaise]

13. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah - you're cracking me up this afternoon

Paul Brittain or Brad Hall?

[Kingofalldems]

2. Once again another reason for a Special Counsel to investigate

the republicans on the Benghazi! Committee.

[DURHAM D]

3. If Gowdy falsifies evidence at this level I can

only guess what he did as a district attorney and federal prosecutor back in South Carolina. How many innocent people did he put in jail?

[enid602]

4. nominee

Just shows the lengths to which the Republicans will go to keep Hillary from being the nominee.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

26. Not hardly. They don't want her to win the general.

Her being the nominee just drives their voters out to the polls.

[enid602]

27. slaughter

They want Bernie. That's why they haven't slaughtered him yet.

[derby378]

5. Okay, so it's probably not treason. What can Gowdy be imprisoned for?

This is a serious admission of guilt for something, and Gowdy shouldn't just walk away from this.

[DURHAM D]

7. His punishment, at the very least, should be

that he must stop cutting his own hair.

[dhill926]

12. Bwahaha…

[Lucky Luciano]

19. Very good. Very good.

[Lucky Luciano]

20. No shit! This seems highly criminal to me.

He should be disbarred too.

[spanone]

6. this committee needs to be shut down and gowdy arrested.

[Fred Sanders]

9. And also arrested should be everyone connected to it for 6 years....Fox included!

BengazhiGate!

[Fred Sanders]

8. It is now "drub, drub, drub" for the lying, criminal GOP. The drip, drip drip has been shut off.

Is it this week than Secretary Clinton is appearing before the Select Committee to Get Hillary, But Got Themselves?

And are these the same crew that have launched email and PP taxpayer funded "investigations", which, of course, are entirely legit!??

[BootinUp]

11. I've changed my mind

Gowdy is not a sleaze bucket.

Nope.


Gowdy is a whale turd.

[maxrandb]

14. What a farce

Howdy Doody says; 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

Or, in other words. we have a shit ton of people on the committee out to get Secretary Clinton.....

[Bluenorthwest]

15. What is the world coming to when Republicans can't even run a proper witch hunt?

That was one of their few special skills....

[Miigwech]

16. Where are the Democratic party leaders on this?

This should be a full on frontal assault in the media by the Democrats ... don't tell me they can't stick to Fox News. The bottom line is that the truth is not getting out to the mass of under informed Americans ... it noe has to be the job of elected Democrats to do the job .... media will not .............. create a big stinky stank that won't go away in one media cycle

[cui bono]

22. The only time I remember them really being outspoken was AFTER it was obvious

the Iraq War was founded on lies and a huge mess. When it was normal to criticize Bush. After that... not so much.

[world wide wally]

17. Tampering with evidence?

[Thinkingabout]

18. It would be better for Gowdy to say the comittee outcome has been compromised and unable to make any

Conclusion.

[cui bono]

21. Is it not past time for this guy to be arrested?

Or at least investigated?

[stonecutter357]

23. K&R!

[Unknown Beatle]

24. I'm no fan of Hillary,

but Trey Gowdy has gone over the line of ethics. Isn't what Gowdy did against the law?

[mahina]

25. Is anybody going to prosecute him?

?????

[Rex]

28. If only we had laws on the books to deal with this kind of treachery.

[Gothmog]

29. Howdy Gowdy needs to resign in shame

[BlueCheese]

30. Rep. Elijah Cummings must be getting pretty fat...

... given how many times he's eaten Trey Gowdy's lunch.

[Vinca]

31. In other words, they're making shit up. Where's the news?

Republicans are liars and we shouldn't expect anything else.