What did Trey Gowdy see in the FISA report??

[kentuck]

As a member of the House Intel Committee, he was assigned to go and read the FISA report about Carter Page and FBI surveillance.

He was never the same after he returned.

This was the same Trey Gowdy that attacked Hillary Clinton for 4 years over Benghazi.

But now, he is defending the FBI. He says they were just doing their job. They are doing what any American citizen would want them to do, he says.

Why the change? He is leaving Congress in November but is that really the reason? Or did he read something in the top secret FISA warrant that shook him back into reality?

Right-wing radio hosts and other prominent Republicans are portraying him as betraying Donald Trump and the Republican Party. What is the real reason Trey Gowdy is defending the FBI and contradicting Donald Trump's claims of a "spy" within his campaign?

[PJMcK]

1. Facts are difficult things (n/t)

[SummerSnow]

2. And now they are ganging up on Gowdy....

Trump allies gang up on Gowdy
The GOP lawmaker was once a conservative hero. Now he’s under fire on the right for balking at Trump’s ‘spygate’ theory.

By KYLE CHENEY 06/02/2018 06:45 AM EDT

Rep. Trey Gowdy has been a pitbull investigator for Republicans for years. Now, he’s in President Donald Trump’s doghouse for daring to challenge the president’s unsupported claim that Democrats and their sympathizers in the FBI embedded a spy in his 2016 campaign.

Trump allies have been pummeling Gowdy in recent days, branding him a gullible or clueless backer of the intelligence community. Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, labeled him “uninformed.” Another Trump-tied attorney, Victoria Toensing, said Gowdy “doesn’t know diddly-squat” about the particulars of federal investigations. And Fox News host Lou Dobbs tagged him a “RINO” — a term for a fake Republican.

It’s the latest twist in Gowdy’s enigmatic tenure in Congress. Once a conservative hero for his headline-grabbing inquisitions of the Obama administration — over the “Fast and Furious” gun-running program and alleged IRS targeting of conservatives, as well as his highly charged Benghazi probe — Gowdy has also bedeviled partisans by sometimes refusing to toe a pro-Trump line. At times, Trump himself has seemed perplexed; in the span of two years, the president once hailed Gowdy as a brilliant lawmaker before bashing him as a failure and then embracing him once again.

Now, after years shouldering the House GOP’s weightiest and most politically explosive investigations, he’s again drawn the ire of Trump-world. And this time, he’s virtually alone, getting little support from his House colleagues.

The retiring South Carolina Republican’s emergence as a critic of Trump’s conspiracy theory began Tuesday, when Gowdy went on Fox News to discuss his takeaway from a classified Justice Department briefing last week about the president’s claims.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/02/gowdy-trump-spygate-theory-617948

*when it rains it pours

[Sancho]

3. he saw the pee-pee tape....

[tazkcmo]

4. In my opinion

He already knew that it was all bull shit. The only thing that has changed is he's not running again and that's why he's defending the FBI. Dollars to Donuts that if he was still running for reelection he would be singing a different tune.

[underpants]

5. I agree n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Hunch says,he saw a pattern

that may have stretched over several years . And certain people were under investigation for Treason or other International Crimes. Remember,there is 17 different investigative Agencies.

[JI7]

7. He was defending the FBI even before this

He just decided he isn't going to destroy his career for trump.

Even out of elected office he has the background to easily get a job again.

[czarjak]

8. After grilling Hillary and "finding nothing new"...

He was probably shown what a real investigation comes up with.

[mnmoderatedem]

9. know who else has been silent?

Devin Nunes. Has not run his big yapper ever since the Rosenstein briefing.

Very telling I think.

[SeattleVet]

11. Yep, he has completely fallen off the planet.

What they saw in that paper must have been very damning, and pretty airtight.

Especially if they couldn't find anything at all in it that they could spin to make it sound good for them.

Total, complete silence. When has Nunes *ever* been quiet about *anything*???

[sunonmars]

12. Unless of course Nunes saw his own name in there and is now quietly shitting himself

[mnmoderatedem]

14. that's my guess.

and it looks like Rosenstein agreeing to that meeting may have been a good thing, though I was very wary of it. Looks like he may have said, ok fuckers, here's a sampling of the goods we have on you. You may want a change of underwear when we're done?

[Achilleaze]

17. Nunes of the above - when it comes to honesty.

He's a republican. 'nuf said. They have demonstrated repeatedly that they don't do honesty or integrity. Sad.

[kentuck]

13. His silence is puzzling...

But, if the top secret briefing were to become public, he would be the first suspect.

[Golden Raisin]

15. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

Radio silence from Nunes since the Rosenstein briefing, from someone who is usually a rabid, yapping diarrhea-mouth.

[struggle4progress]

10. "Seems if I take the wrong side here, I might forever be known as Apologist-for-Traitors"

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. Probably evidence that Carter Page was communicating with the FSB in July 2016

...while he was a member of the Trump team.

As alluded to by Kremlin propagandist Konstantin Rykov in a contemporaneous posting on Facebook: