Trey Gowdy: Threshold for appointing a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton has not been met
by Melissa Quinn | Nov 15, 2017, 11:32 AM
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., on Wednesday split from fellow Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, by saying he doesn't believe the threshold has been met for appointing a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and the FBI's handling of its investigation into her use of a private email server.
“I don’t think the threshold has been met for the appointment of special counsel," Gowdy told Fox News on Wednesday. "I think this is a really important point. You can investigate something without special counsel."
"In fact, 99.9 percent of all investigations in this country are done by the women and men at the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and none of them is called special counsel,” Gowdy said. “So there is a threshold that has to be met, and I don’t think it has been met. To say we’re not going to appoint special counsel is not to say we’re not going to look into something.”
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