Like the rest of us, Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina is disgusted by the sorry state that our once great country’s mainstream media has devolved into, and how they are threatening our entire democratic system.
Trey was recently set off by the media’s increased usage of “anonymous sources” to supply information for their news stories about President Donald Trump, which they then present as fact without stating who their sources are. Original Watergate reporter Bob Woodward, who is a liberal, even went so far as to say that “Congress is not very well equipped” to tell the truth about what is happening in our country. Gowdy destroyed that argument.
Woodward continued about Republican-led Congress, “They’ve had some flops in recent investigations. So, the quality of information, of evidence, we are liable to get is weak.” Shot back Trey, “I think Congress is much better equipped to do investigations than journalists are.”
He continued, stating the obvious that nobody had the guts to say, “We can’t rely on anonymous sources. We can’t rely on leaked information, classified information which in and of itself is a crime. With all due respect to the reporters, I can’t cross-examine anonymous sources.”
Gowdy added, “You can’t even directly examine them. It’s a lot easier to write a news piece than it is to conduct an investigation. What Congress needs is access to the witnesses, access to the documents and they need to understand we don’t run parallel, criminal investigations. We have a job to do.” Do you agree with Trey?
Source:conservative101.com