Rep Trey Gowdy and FBI agent Peter Strzok (cnn.com)

Rep Gowdy puts Peter Strzok in his place

written by Jeanine Martin July 15, 2018

This is my favorite part of last week’s House Judicial Committee. Peter Strzok is such an arrogant little man. Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) puts him in his place.

Trey Gowdy and Peter Strzok

Jeanine Martin

Also known as Lovettsville Lady, I am a Republican activist in the wilds of western Loudoun County.

Jimcima

Because that’s what congressional hearing are for, to “put people in their place”.

Are you for real?

Try being an American and not a bile-spewing troll for a change. Stop hating everyone; see how kindness and empathy might work for you for a change.

Give it a try.
- Jeanine Martin
  
  WOW! Such an angry leftist! Please try to calm down and practice what you preach. Give it a try.
  - Jimcima
    
    I’m a “leftist”? Where did I indicate what my political beliefs? Because if you’re implying that only leftists can be kind and caring and compassionate and have civil discussions then I strongly disagree.
    
    Calm down and re-read what I wrote; try not hating and name calling and dumping bile on people you don’t even know and see how much better the world can be for everyone.
    - Jeanine Martin
      
      Wow again, and again, practice what you preach. It might help you to less angry at the world.
      - Jimcima
        
        What I’m practicing and preaching is both tolerance and civility; I didn’t call you names or insult you and I asked for the same courtesy from you, a courtesy you failed to even consider in your rush to attack me personally. I’m sad that this is how you choose to interact with people.
      - Stonewall Jackson
        
        You are an idiot.
    - Col. Andrew Olson
      
      Spot on, but they do not want reasoned disagreement here. They want only sycophantic agreement. Even SBT is regularly told he is not a Republican. I vote for Republicans as often as I vote for Democrats but I am falsely accused of being a member of the Democratic Party, even crazy claims I work for them.
      
      This web site is almost purely an exercise of “Who is more macho?” with each participant exclaiming why they are more Republican and can better generalize what is wrong with “liberals” and “leftists” and “socialists” and “communists” and worse. It’s sickening.
      
      Here’s how crazy it is: I had someone with a “moderator” badge exclaim about “moderates.” It doesn’t get nuttier than TBE, designed to prove every day why Republican numbers in Virginia are dwindling.
      - Jimcima
        
        I’ve never been a member of a political party but I’ve almost always voted for Democrats as we align on the issues – in this last election I voted for a Republican incumbent for my state assembly district for two reasons: firstly and most importantly because she seems reasonable and doesn’t reflexively hate “the other” and secondly because I live in a very blue state and the minority party should have a greater voice since they represent people who have as much right to political expression as I do, ie conservatives. Not that many conservatives respect my political liberty in any way but their poor behavior doesn’t absolve me from my civic responsibility to safeguard their political rights.
        
        I don’t identify as a Democrat or a liberal or a progressive or a leftist and not because I necessarily disagree with the views of people who do but because the American political right has hijacked and manipulated these terms and made them into nothing but labels for name calling, mindless tribalism and internecine hatred.
        
        Not a single conservative I’ve conversed with has been able to accurately characterize a position they’ve applied one of these labels to – literally not a single one. My solution is to not play that game and so my response is simple: tell me the issue you want to discuss and I’ll give you my opinion on it. How they choose to characterize my response it is up to them, but hopefully a bit of rational conversation will bring them at least a little bit back to their senses.
        
        Hopefully.
- Jeanine Martin
  
  You would might be happier at bluevirginia.us where they think like you but in a kinder, gentler way. Give it a try.
- Stonewall Jackson
  
  “We’ll stop him.” Let that sink in for a second… I assume you are a Democrat. A high ranking FBI official with the power of that agency behind him says to his lady, also in the FBI… We’ll stop him. On his government phone. The dumbass didn’t even realize that you can’t express this over a government phone.
  
  Obama’s FBI is going to stop a candidate. And you whine about Trump being a fascist.
  
  You people are idiots.
  - Jimcima
    
    I literally said none of what you said I said and then you used the words you put into my mouth to insult me.
    
    Ask yourself, is that fair? Is that civil? Is that honest?
    
    The answer is pretty obvious.
- Stonewall Jackson
  
  The FBI aint about kindness and empathy… it can screw a person over nine ways to Sunday. This little turd Strok needs to be fired. Mean old world son… and guys like this are part of it.
  - Jimcima
    
    You’re arguing approvingly for it being “a mean old world” and then complaining that someone is being mean to you.The only way to parse this is that you approve of bullying but don’t like it when you get a taste of your own medicine. Reap what you sow, I have no sympathy for kindergarten ethics or behavior.
Warmac9999

Wake me up when Strzok is indicted. These congressional hearings are interesting but I am left with constant “so what” thoughts.
- Jimcima
  
  Indicted for what? Making rude statements about Trump? That’s not even remotely an indictable offense, at least at the moment.
  
  The pertinent comment came from Congressman Lieu when he pointed out that if Strzok had wanted to damage Trump all he had to do was to leak the fact that the campaign was being investigated for colluding with the Russians. It would have required no skulduggery and really wouldn’t have taken any effort at all, and yet he didn’t do that nor is there any evidence that he did anything to damage Trump outside of doing his job an FBI agent.
  If you’re complaining that investigating a suspected violation of the law damages the person being investigated because it turns up evidence of a crime the you are advocating for criminal activity.
  - Warmac9999
    
    Strzok has lost his security clearance and been escorted out of the fbi building. Somebody thinks a bit different than you and lieu.
    - Jimcima
      
      According to Strzok he still has his clearance and he is still working fro the FBI, but that is neither here nor there and has nothing to do with my comment except for one point: what did he do that was illegal?
      
      Calling Donald Trump names is not only not illegal it is Constitutionally protected speech.
      You are advocating for persecuting an FBI agent and violating his constitutional rights because he is doing his job and investigating criminal activity, thus you are supporting tyranny.
      - Warmac9999
        
        He did not call Donald Trump names. He said he would stop him from becoming president. That is treasonous intent.
      - Jimcima
        
        There is no such thing as “treasonous intent” there is just treason.
        
        I tried to stop Trump from becoming president too, as did millions upon millions upon millions of others and it isn’t “treason” to do or to disagree with Trump or with you for that matter.
        
        His words were not crimes, and you assertion that they were proves you neither understand the Constitution nor respect the rights it is supposed to protect.
Tsunami Joe

Peter Strzok stills gets a government paycheck. How is that putting him in his place?

People need to wake up and realize that these investigations such as Bengazi or Russia are nothing but a con job by both political parties and the media on the American people.

Government, the electeds, with the help of the media, keep the people divided to prevent the focus being the corruption and incompetence inside the beltway. No major problems are solved. Scotus. the Catholic and Jew court, now make the big decisions that congress is supposed to make.

Both parties are in bed with each other in these never ending, limitless funded, investigations. The only thing that takes the focus off of one investigation is the creation of another investigation. People are being conned. Both parties. Nothing but racketeering.

Kick’em all out.
mark Jawsz

Strzok is the quintessential arrogant liberal male that I have been bumping heads with for over 40 years.
- Warmac9999
  
  He is much more dangerous because of the position he held and, for all we know, still holds. The fbi is still protecting him when they should be adopting a neutral position. The DOJ and fbi are a political mess at the top, and lots of firings and indictments are needed to clean it up.
- Jimcima
  
  As far as I can tell Strzok made no political comment at all except to say he hated Donald Trump – millions of people hate Donald Trump with it having anything to do with his politics, to the extent he has any political beliefs at all that is,
  
  Maybe “quintessential arrogant liberal snot(s)” are simply responding emotionally to your caricature of them and the misrepresentation of their positions like you do repeatedly in “Intellectual Life at the Left Pole”.
  - Stonewall Jackson
    
    It seems you can’t read either numbnuts.
    
    We will stop him.
    
    We… dumbass. That means the FBI.
    - Jimcima
      
      He did nothing except to express an opinion you disagree with. Political speech is protected by the Constitution of the United States, even for people whose views you hate and despise.
      
      If people exercising their God-given Constitution rights as American citizens causes you so much anger and hatred against these people then perhaps you should go live somewhere more authoritarian and repressive; the world is full of terrible places where liberty is hated and freedom is despised and you’d fit right in at any one of them.
Stonewall Jackson

This is a scandal the likes of which puts Watergate in the perspective of being nothing… An FBI agent, high up in the counter intelligence ranks utters a statement to his special (not his wife) lady, also in the FBI:

We’ll stop him.

This is a POS that managed to find that Hillary did nothing wrong in her private e-mail server and had to council that dumb@$$ Comey not to mention the word negligent when he wrote about Madame Filthy’s actions. See negligent is the standard in the law which gets you sent to a grand jury and indicted.

So this little POS Strzok, with access to all of the filthy stuff that the Dems had paid for with that opposition dossier says that they’ll stop Trump. I didn’t know that the FBI’s job was to stop a candidate!

Now what did that dear old Liberal defender of freedom know about his administration spying on a candidate and his FBI trying to stop that candidate?

Let’s find out… but we won’t will we? This is about as far as this is going to go. The GOP Incorporated has it’s own ass to look out for and their interests generally coincide with the Democrats.

But when you talk about FASCISM… Obama’s administration seemed pretty good at it.
- Warmac9999
  
  The fact that Hillary commits traitorous behavior, and it is covered by the obama DOJ/fbi, is a scandal of proportions so massive that it makes Benedict Arnold look innocent by comparison.
  - Jimcima
    
    Yeah, none of that is even remotely true and based on partisan political attacks and propaganda and nothing more.
    
    OTOH, what is true is that the Mueller investigation has in just over a year resulted in the uncovering of a massive coordinated attack on the United States by Russia which involved significant members of the Trump campaign and administration which to date has produced the following:
    
    2 indictments for conspiracy against the US including Trump’s campaign 2016 manager.
    21 indictment for conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States
    16 indictments to defrauding the United States
    2 indictments for conspiracy to obstruct justice
    2 indictments for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud
    12 indictments for money laundering
    2 indictments for obstruction of justice
    5 indictments for making false statements
    1 indictment for making false FARA statements
    1 indictment for being an un-registered agent of a foreign government
    120 counts against 15 individuals for aggravated identity theft
    1 indictment for identity fraud
    9 counts of bank fraud against 2 individuals
    9 counts of bank fraud conspiracy against 2 individuals
    9 counts of failing to file reports of foreign bank accounts against 2 individuals
    9 counts of subscribing to false tax returns by 2 individuals
    1 charge of assisting in preparation of false tax documents
    1 charge of subscribing to false amended tax returns
    
    As well as 5 convictions of:
    
    Michael Flynn, Trump’s National Security Advisor
    Rick Gate, Assistant to Trumps’s campaign manager
    
    George Papadopolous,. Member of Trump’s foreign policy advisory panel
    
    Alex van der Zwann, consultant to Paul Manafort
    
    Richard Pinedo, the man whose business was used to launder money for Manafort
    
    That you ignore all of this and yet assert Clinton and Obama are guilty of crimes for which there is no evidence for whatsoever is simply delusional.
    - Warmac9999
      
      Apparently, you have never handled classified information, aka secrets critical to American defense and success. Many who have mishandled said info have ended up in prison. Hillary admittedly mishandled info even at the special access level which is above even normal top secret.
      - Jimcima
        
        And Donald Trump gave code word information to the Russians in the Oval Office – do you know why he isn’t in jail right now? It’s because the President can declassify whatever he wants without exception, even if it harms the country or assists our enemies like Trump did.
        
        Crazy I know, right?
        
        But those are the rules and so it works both ways. Since Clinton was working for Obama whatever she did with respect to classified information was perfectly legal since he choose to let her do it.
        
        Not that there is any evidence she did anything wrong of course but her email handling she was okay by Obama and so case closed. Feel free to argue otherwise (even without evidence) but if you choose to to that you must argue that Trump should be prosecuted for breaking the law for what he did in public and without question: he gave away our most valuable secrets to a country that wants to destroy us.
        
        Now that I’ve dispensed with you “whataboutism” what about the facts I’ve presented about the Trump investigation that you are pretending don’t exist?
    - Stonewall Jackson
      
      Mr or Ms. Civility and niceness– the list you cite against Flynn and Manafort were created by Mueller, using an attorney named Lowenstein who is one of the nastiest son of a bitch lawyers in the US. They have nothing to do with Russia do they? What the US government does is to bankrupt someone in cases.
      
      You and your Russia bullshit… a charge the Democrats used to deflect idiots like you away from the content of the wiki leaks. There was a rigged election and it was the Democrat primary where they stacked the deck for Hillary. Donna Brazille said as much.
      
      As to Clinton… the standard for mishandling classified information is negligence. That’s all. Comey and Strzok, this asshole in the story, chose to dance around that. Strzok even had to tell Comey not to use the term negligence because that is what gets you indicted and convicted.
      - Jimcima
        
        See my response below to you nonsense about classified information.
        
        Ignoring this mountain of evidence and in the face of Trump’s joining with Putin to attack the United States in Finland yesterday is all anyone needs to know about you.
Jean Baptiste Bellegarde

Don’t understand people’s fascination with Trey Gowdy. What has he done aside from providing interesting sound bytes? I’ve yet to see him get to the bottom of ANYTHING! All flash and no bang; kind of like the yappy chihuahua who makes a lot of noise but is harmless.

When are folks going to start looking at actions and not sound bytes?

Rep Gowdy puts Peter Strzok in his place

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