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Louie Gohmert: A very tragic thing occurred for those of us who care about constitutional rights yesterday. It is a continuation of the…

On the recordApril 10, 2018
A very tragic thing occurred for those of us who care about constitutional rights yesterday. It is a continuation of the travesty that is coming out of the so-called special counsel Robert Mueller. I am not aware of anybody else in the House or Senate who was as absolutely concerned and livid as I was when I heard about the appointment of Robert Mueller as a special counsel because, from my questioning of the man and from my research from questioning the man during judiciary hearings, I believe he has done more damage to the FBI than all of the FBI Directors put together since J. Edgar Hoover. {time} 2015 He ran off thousands and thousands of years of experience from the FBI in his goofy 5-year up-or-out policy. It works in some areas, but not in law enforcement. That is the one area where law enforcement needs time to build credibility with local law enforcement. But anyway, these guys were--most of them that he ran off with thousands and thousands of years of experience during his first 10 years, which is the requisite term set up for an FBI Director--those guys were trained to recognize radical Islamist characteristics as to what they were studying, what they believed, things they did, and that was a very helpful thing for the FBI to know. They began, I guess really got on track after the attempted--well, actually, the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Apr 10, 2018

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