Rep. Trey Gowdy Hammers Fast And Furious Hearings: ‘This Is Why People Don’t Like Congress’

by Nando Di Fino | 8:21 am, February 3rd, 2012

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Rep. Trey Gowdy (R – S.C.) was a guest on Fox & Friends Friday morning, and took the opportunity to blast both the Inspector General and Congress for an incredibly slow-moving process that has become, in his opinion, overly politicized. Gowdy, a former prosecutor, expressed dismay at not being able to get information from the Department of Justice in a timely manner.

“I understand there are 80,000 documents that your committee wants the Department of Justice to turn over, and up until this point, they have not,” host Gretchen Carlson asked. “Why?”

“That’s a great question,” Gowdy replied, “and the next time you have a chance to talk to Attorney General Holder, I hope you’ll ask him that. He’s invoking or hiding behind something called ‘executive privilege.’”

“We’re going to get those documents,” Gowdy later added, “it’s just a question of whether he wants us to do it the easy way or the hard way.”

Gowdy then expressed amazement at how “you can do something wrong” with plenty of evidence to back it up, and still not be punished for it a year later.

“You have a dead border patrol agent and hundreds of dead Mexican citizens and it’s been a year!” Gowdy said. “There have been continents that have shifted in less time than it’s taken this Inspector General to answer some pretty simple questions.”

Carlson then asked how a report released by Democrats could differ so starkly from the Republican report.

“Welcome to Washington,” Gowdy replied. “And if your Ambien prescription runs out, I would recommend that you read the minority report. It’s short on facts. It’s 60-something pages long. This is why people don’t like Congress or the institutions of government.”

Watch a clip of Gowdy’s interview below, courtesy of Fox News:

Fast And Furious, Trey Gowdy

Gloves Fingers Donahue

DOJ is a political branch of the White House and it’s supposed to uphold the law. Well, Obama is the law, in his mind.

Stonewalling. This administration is lawless.

Obama was told to turn over his e-mail regarding Solyndra and refuses to do it.
Obama was subpoenaed by a judge and ignores it.
Remember IG Gerald Walpin and Walpingate, one of the first of numerous Obama scandals?

Corruption. Scandal. Massive incompetence and failure.
You would not keep an employee like that, and Obama works for us.
Anonymous

Really this is why I like Congress, we have a American citizen die because of a stupid Department of Justice project and no one has taken the fall for that. I don’t care if its a hold over from the Bush administration or this administration. Someone should lose their job over something this stupid and sadly we have a media who don’t care at all about this story.
Anonymous

It’s the behavior like Holder’s that gave us the (horrible) Independent Counsel statute. It’s simply amazing that he would invoke Executive Privilege during an investigation that involves at least one death of a US Federal LEO and dozens of Mexican nationals.

I would hate to go back to the days of the Independent Counsel, but I’m not sure what the alternative is when you have the element of government that is responsible for investigating and prosecuting bad behavior, behaving badly themselves.
Anonymous

A “political branch” of the White House”? Does Alberto Gonzales ring a bell?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20730513/ns/politics/t/bush-appears-near-replacing-attorney-general/#.Tyvu_xyGSuQ
Anonymous

“DOJ has become a political branch of the White House and it’s not supposed to be.It’s supposed to uphold the law. Well, Obama is the law, in his mind.”

Has become? Remember Alberto Gonzales?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_controversy
Anonymous

Oops!
Anonymous

LMAO

I don’t want to talk about wide receiver… of course you don’t fools.

Obama had to stop another Bush disaster and the GOP look like fools yet again .
Anonymous

Who’s DOJ prosecuted those of both major political parties.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

Most transparent administration EVAH!
Pablo

Wide receiver wasn’t a disaster. They actually tracked those guns, and they were working with Mexican authorities. Also, no one got killed with any of those weapons.

Fast and Furious had nothing to do with the Bush Administration. The blood of the hundreds of people murdered with those guns is on the hands of the Obama Administration and theirs alone.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

No media coverage of this (if it were a Republican DOJ could you imagine it would be on every network) The mother of murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry had harsh words for Attorney General Eric Holder after Thursday’s House oversight committee hearing on Operation Fast and Furious.
“THIS IS FOR YOU SON,” Mrs. Terry posted on Facebook at about 3:30 p.m. “Mr. Holder. How come you can never say my sons name. You never have. All i ever hear you say is ‘i didnt find out or I cant say’ Im actually tired of hearing your double talk in answering questions. What a joke you are. You know my son was a real AMERICAN, a WARRIOR, and a HERO, who was also protecting COWARD POLITICANS like you.”
“Hope you remember that,” Mrs. Terry added in her message to Holder before signing it: “PROUD MOM OF BRIAN A. TERRY.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/02/brian-terrys-mother-to-holder-youre-a-joke-and-a-coward/#ixzz1lKhFQeXt
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

Oh and its also funny that Mediaite gets the headline “This is why people dont like congress” out of this article. 99% of the article is about Holder and the DOJ stonewalling congress after Obama said this would be the most transparent admin ever, and Mediaite makes a headline to trash a Republican congress. This is just another example of how although they did cover Fast and Furious, they put a liberal spin on the headline.
Pablo

Right. Gowdy wasn’t “hammering” the hearings, he was talking about the minority report and how it could put you to sleep.
Anonymous

If this bunch were charged with treason, which they should be, the truth would come out quicker.
Anonymous

And don’t forget. This is from the “most transparent” administration in history!
Hout Bosques

Hey, guess who was up first, AS USUAL?

This is a horse shit meme. The Repulsives are trying to do by politicking including lying what they KNOW they can’t do by legal & Congressional process. They’ve been trying to set up this crap Federal District Court legal action to enforce a subpoena for stuff either they’re not entitled to for oversight purposes or doesn’t exist, and it’s failing miserably. So now you get this ‘Reasonable Repulsive going to bond with the other fuppets to make it SEEM like there’s a partisan issue here.

Start with this folks: What is the LAW that the Repulsives say was broken here? (Hint: There is none.)

Then go to this: When did F&F START, & by WHOM was it planned out? (Hints: Under Bush, & by Bush appointees & embeds).

So WTF is the long-plan here? Simple: keep the base motivated that there’s something, anything available for impeachment in the second Obama term (This and Solyandra are the best they’ve come up with yet – both of them Bush administation initiatives flooded with Bush embeds), then hope like hell they keep the House & take the Senate. Because then they’ll party like it’s 1999.
Hout Bosques

Aborted meme.
Hout Bosques

Meme.
Hout Bosques

Meme.
Hout Bosques

Meme. There are SO MANY of the Repulsives showing up to carry forth this meme; all I’m doing is counting.
Hout Bosques

Meme.
Hout Bosques

Meme.
Hout Bosques

Meme.

Time for a musical interlude from the Repulsive’s song leader:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fbUtUXkckw
Hout Bosques

Meme.

Hey – a self-colloquy meme! Looks like Gloves put his mittens on.
Hout Bosques

Meme.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

Fast and Furious was a continuation of Wide Receiver – and one of the guns was used in the shooting of this agent. Well, you morons, guns don’t kill people – people kill people. That a gun involved in Fast and Furious was used is happenstance. Does Gowdy think the killer would have shown up with a light saber if this particular weapon were unavailable? The investigators’ logic is counter to the anti-gun control set – and it would appear the Republicans are now the ones pushing gun control — and I don’t mean ‘hitting the target.’
daveinboca

Alberto Gonzales did the same thing the BillyJeff administration did. The media and its pack of running dogs don’t remember a thing. Fast & Furious is more like Watergate, with Holder as AG Mitchell and Obummer as POTUS Nixon.

Only difference, no border patrol or other US govt officials were killed in Watergate.