Trey Gowdy releases name of CIA source he accused Hillary Clinton of endangering.

[senseamp]

You can't make this sh!t up.

House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy appears to have accidentally released the name of a CIA source in the midst of a back-and-forth with Democrats about how sensitive the information was and whether its presence in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email account constituted a security breach.

The email posted Sunday on the panel's website included in one instance the name of Mousa Kousa, a former Libyan government spy chief and foreign minister. The name appeared to have been redacted in several other instances, but was included in a subject line of a forwarded email.

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In Gowdy's response Sunday, he said he was committed to protecting the source's identity, even if the CIA was not.

"Sources and methods of intelligence are among the most closely guarded information our government has," Gowdy wrote to Cummings. "We will continue to redact that information and treat it with the highest level of confidentiality and sensitivity, and we would advise you to do the same."

Gowdy is told by CIA that the source is not secret, he pretends like source is secret and that Hillary endangered him by keeping emails on her server. The goes ahead and himself releases the name of the source that he was telling everyone was secret. This guy is an idiot or what?

Please provide the actual link when you quote an article or source.

Perknose
Forum Director

Oops, forgot link, adding:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/trey-gowdy-release-cia-source-name-benghazi-committee-214919

 

[shira]

You can't make this sh!t up.


Gowdy is told by CIA that the source is not secret, he pretends like source is secret and that Hillary endangered him by keeping emails on her server. The goes ahead and himself releases the name of the source that he was telling everyone was secret. This guy is an idiot or what?

What's even more bizarre is that Gowdy did this despite the fact that the State Department specifically requested that the name of the source NOT be released.

 

[Blackjack200]

Wow, this has really turned around. It's actually a campaign asset for Clinton now as Rep. Gowdy watches his reputation evaporate.

 

[Newell Steamer]

The GOP has reached new levels of buffoonery.

 

[Spungo]

This guy is an idiot or what?

Yes

This reminds me of something from the Sarah Butts page on Encyclopedia Dramatica. A guy in Canada was accusing 8chan of distributing child porn, so he saved a copy and reposted it as evidence. The problem is that the picture he saved didn't technically count as child porn in the US where 8chan is hosted (the vag was covered), but it is considered child porn in Canada where that guy lives, and to make it worse, reposting it counts as distribution of child porn. I love it when criminals are stupid. It makes them easier to catch.

 

[shira]

From yesterday's NY times article:

Mr. Gowdy tried to push back on the mounting criticism of the committee for using the Benghazi attacks as a way to undermine Mrs. Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Gowdy said the committee was focused on the Benghazi attacks, not Mrs. Clinton or her personal email account.

So this will be really, really interesting on Thursday, when Hillary answers the committee's questions. What should be Hillary's response when a Republican questioner engages in a fishing expedition related to her personal email account?

What I HOPE she does is make an opening statement where she says she's taking Chairman Gowdy at this word that the purpose of her appearance is to help the committee better understand the circumstances surrounding the attack on the consulate, and NOT to engage in irrelevant lines of questioning about other things, such as her personal emails.

And when (not if) a committee member DOES start asking questions about emails and her handling of classified information, I hope Hillary asks - each and every time - "Please explain what your question has to do with the attack on Benghazi? How will this help us to understand how the lives of the four Americans who died there could have been saved?"

Because these lying sacks of shit MUST be called out each and every time they say they're not playing politics, but then do exactly that.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Or she could ask if that congressman voted to cut funding for embassy security prior to the attack and then drop the mic.

 

[boomerang]

You can't make this sh!t up.

If you'd included a link, I'd know for certain you're not making all this up. But as it is, I found the article from which you cut and pasted the portions of text that suited your ideology. You neglected to include the paragraph that indicates it was an error on the part of the State Department. One of several such paragraphs actually.

Does that make you a dishonest asshole? It's open to interpretation I guess.

Gowdy appears to accidentally release CIA source's name

Here's just one snippet you left out among many others and oh, your title needs to be changed.

Gowdy’s aides blamed the State Department for the disclosure, and the agency acknowledged Monday a “human error” led to a failure to delete a name from the email in question.

 

[sportage]

The GOP has reached new levels of buffoonery.

Naw. The levels have always been there. People just weren't looking.

 

[Attic]

If you'd included a link, I'd know for certain you're not making all this up. But as it is, I found the article from which you cut and pasted the portions of text that suited your ideology. You neglected to include the paragraph that indicates it was an error on the part of the State Department. One of several such paragraphs actually.

Does that make you a dishonest asshole? It's open to interpretation I guess.

Gowdy appears to accidentally release CIA source's name

Here's just one snippet you left out among many others and oh, your title needs to be changed.

Thanks for the update.

Somehow the two party system has been used to manipulate folks who are otherwise intelligent and patient, into acting like a bunch of hungry hungry hippos when balls of BS are rolled out.

In politics what people think matters more than the truth. This is a core reason for many of our problems with our government. The two party system is a war for perception control,.... and not much else.

 

[RampantAndroid]

State Department spokesman Mark Toner confirmed Monday afternoon that State officials had missed one occurrence of Moussa’s name it had intended to delete from the email in question.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/...-name-benghazi-committee-214919#ixzz3p3MdSzbc

Yeah, let's not copy paste this part because it's all Gowdy's fault...

 

[Jhhnn]

If you'd included a link, I'd know for certain you're not making all this up. But as it is, I found the article from which you cut and pasted the portions of text that suited your ideology. You neglected to include the paragraph that indicates it was an error on the part of the State Department. One of several such paragraphs actually.

Does that make you a dishonest asshole? It's open to interpretation I guess.

Gowdy appears to accidentally release CIA source's name

Here's just one snippet you left out among many others and oh, your title needs to be changed.

I'm terribly sorry, but I need to say that Gowdy appears to be standing on his big swinging dick in his golf cleats.

First he tries to make a big deal out of finding Moussa's name in Hillary's email then releases it to the public himself.

Now that he's done so, it's easy to see that his original claim wrt national security was bullshit because Moussa defected to Great Britain in 2011. Duh.

Gowdy could only make some breach seem plausible when the person named was anonymous. Everybody & their dog who cared already knew that Moussa had turned rat & spilled his guts.

But Gowdy is now committed to protecting Moussa's privacy. You betcha.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Gowgy is an idiot, frankly, John Conner would trounce him in a battle of wits, or is that twits...

twit
A moron with absolutely no sense.
See also Paris Hilton


Brian

 

[blankslate]

Is it any wonder that Paul Ryan doesn't want the job as House Speaker?

or as another person said it.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/speaker-five-reasons-to-not-run-214587

The former 2012 vice-presidential candidate isn't much more conservative that McCarthy, but he's arguably the one Republican with the national stature to overcome the reflexive insurrection from the right. So far, no good. "While I am grateful for the encouragement I've received, I will not be a candidate," the Wisconsin Republican said in a statement on Thursday.

Why not? A Ryan pal offered this explanation to me: "Because he's not a f---ing moron." Translation: Ryan has a real future. No speaker has ever been elected president (Since James Polk in the 1840s, anyway) — and no speaker dragged into ugly budget crises by his strife-stricken party is ever, ever going to be.

Paul Ryan may be a paragon of conservatism or a lying hypocrite depending on your political predilections but his reluctance to campaign for the leadership of the House in Congress does indeed indicate that he is not a "fucking moron".


....

 

[Moonbeam]

Gowgy is an idiot, frankly, John Conner would trounce him in a battle of wits, or is that twits...

twit
A moron with absolutely no sense.
See also Paris Hilton


Brian

I rather like him. I think he doesn't realize that he has unconscious motivations, but I find him to be rather sincere otherwise. He gives off positive vibs to my way of thinking.

 

[soundforbjt]

What is with all the repubs not going by their actual first names?

Trey's is Harold...
Rand's is Randy...
Jeb!'s is John...
Bobby's is Piyush...
Nikki's is Nimrata...

 

[Jhhnn]

It gets better. Gowdy & the committee were the people who redacted Moussa's name from the released mail, *not* the CIA or the State Dept at all. That way, they could create the illusion they wanted, the illusion that it was "classified" when nobody but them claimed it was.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...ummings-Gowdy-confesses-he-redacted-document#

It was pure fabrication like Joe McCarthy's list of 200 communists in the State Dept. That's been the real story behind Benghazi & Hillary's email all along.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Yeah, look, even if the Sate Department or some entity connected to the Dems failed to redact the name it's still the person that released the email to the media that's at fault -- isn't it? I mean, does the person that released it not bear any responsibility for the release given they're the one that released it?


Brian

 

[Jhhnn]

Yeah, look, even if the Sate Department or some entity connected to the Dems failed to redact the name it's still the person that released the email to the media that's at fault -- isn't it? I mean, does the person that released it not bear any responsibility for the release given they're the one that released it?


Brian

It's not even that. Moussa's defection made it *obvious* that he was the source of a great deal of intel leading up to the overthrow of Qaddafi. Trying to hide his identity is pointless, other than for the purposes of sliming Clinton. Gowdy tried to make it look like the email was talking about somebody else.

 

[Blackjack200]

What is with all the repubs not going by their actual first names?

Trey's is Harold...
Rand's is Randy...
Jeb!'s is John...
Bobby's is Piyush...
Nikki's is Nimrata...

Randy Paul...

Sounds like your molester uncle.

 

[wetech]

From yesterday's NY times article:


So this will be really, really interesting on Thursday, when Hillary answers the committee's questions. What should be Hillary's response when a Republican questioner engages in a fishing expedition related to her personal email account?

What I HOPE she does is make an opening statement where she says she's taking Chairman Gowdy at this word that the purpose of her appearance is to help the committee better understand the circumstances surrounding the attack on the consulate, and NOT to engage in irrelevant lines of questioning about other things, such as her personal emails.

And when (not if) a committee member DOES start asking questions about emails and her handling of classified information, I hope Hillary asks - each and every time - "Please explain what your question has to do with the attack on Benghazi? How will this help us to understand how the lives of the four Americans who died there could have been saved?"

Because these lying sacks of shit MUST be called out each and every time they say they're not playing politics, but then do exactly that.

If I recall, there's a 2 month gap in any email records she turned over in the summer prior to the attack. That could be considered relevant.

 

[Jhhnn]

If I recall, there's a 2 month gap in any email records she turned over in the summer prior to the attack. That could be considered relevant.

Still buying in to the witch hunt, huh?

 

[wetech]

Still buying in to the witch hunt, huh?

Your personal beliefs as to Hillary's magical abilities aside, it was a direct response to the question of how questions of emails could be considered relavent.