Gowdy: Congressional investigators 'leak like the Gossip Girls'

Rep. Trey GowdyHarold (Trey) Watson GowdySunday shows preview: Trump escalates Cabinet shake-up Trump, Sessions relationship takes new turn with special counsel decisionConservatives fume after Sessions declines to appoint new special counselMORE (R-S.C.) said Sunday slammed congressional committees, including his own, as “leak[ing] like the ‘Gossip Girls,'” referring to a popular teen show about an anonymous high school gossip column.

“[T]hey’re terrible and I would be telling you that if I were staying in Congress,” Gowdy said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Gowdy plans to retire at the end of his term.

“They are just not serious,” he continued. “Serious investigations don’t leak. Serious investigations don’t make up their mind first and then go in search of the evidence to validate your previously held conviction.”

He said that he hopes the Senate and special counsel’s probes into Russia’s election are “more objective” than that of the House Intelligence Committee, of which he’s a member.

CBS host Margaret Brennan asked Gowdy if the committee searched for evidence to authenticate a pre-drawn conclusion that there was no collusion between Trump campaign staff members and the Kremlin.

“I think Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffFive takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s media blitzHouse Intel votes to release report in Russia probeTop Intel Dem: Minority ‘absolutely’ plans to continue Russia witness interviewsMORE in March of 2017 said he had evidence more than circumstantial but not direct. And oh, by the way there is no body of evidence that’s more than circumstantial but not direct, but he said he had it of collusion and we’ve been waiting for — for over a month and — for over a year now for him to actually produce that – that evidence,” Gowdy responded, referring to House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).

“That is not serious. And — and I’m hoping that either the Senate investigation or [special counsel Robert] Mueller will – will be more objective.”

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