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Trey Gowdy: FBI withheld 'game changer' transcript material from FISA Court

 

Former Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., says there are unreleased transcripts of recorded conversations between FBI informants and former Trump campaign associate George Papadopoulos that โ€œhas the potential to be a game changer.โ€

In a Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, the former House Oversight Committee chairman said when the FBI listens in on phone calls or sends in an informant wearing a wire then โ€œthereโ€™s a transcript of thatโ€ and that โ€œone in particular has the potential to actually persuade people.โ€

 

In laying out a series of questions about the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into President Trump's campaign and the FBI and Justice Department's handling of the operation, Gowdy listed a series of questions he thinks need to be answered, including: โ€œWhere are the transcripts, if any exist, between the informants and the telephone calls to George Papadopoulos?โ€

Republican lawmakers who have seen the relevant documents believe exculpatory evidence related to Papadopoulos was not included in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications targeting former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

 

"If the bureau is going to send an informant in it's going to be wired and if the bureau is monitoring telephone calls there's a transcript of that,โ€ Gowdy said. โ€œAnd some of us have been fortunate enough to know whether or not those transcripts exist. But they haven't been made public.โ€

 

Gowdy said one still-secret transcript could be a bombshell. โ€œI think one in particular is going, it has the potential to actually persuade people. Very little on this Russia probe, I'm afraid, is going to persuade people who hate Trump or love Trump. But there is some information in these transcripts that I think has the potential to be a game changer, if it's ever made public," he said.

 

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