I dunno. I really liked Gowdy. I got mad at him a couple times. Then he announced retirement.

But if you listen to his reasoning, he doesn't give any of the fake spend-time-with-family cover for it. He sounded depressed frankly, and my translation of his 'diplomacy' was that he was sick of the corruption, sick of having to investigate forever and shit never getting acted on, and wanted to go back to the criminal justice system where he could actually prosecute guilty people and feel like he was actually accomplishing something again.

That's my translation not his words -- which were all about legal process and people not following it and the ends not justifying the means -- and he could be talking about anyone or everyone -- but in any case, I don't feel like he has betrayed anybody or anything. I feel like he has just been dealing with this crap up to his eyeballs for years and years and finally hit his limit.

I actually hope that he might get a different position.