Trey Gowdy gets his facts wrong once again (re: Hillary's emails )

[OKNancy]

I read a post this morning in LBN. This part jumped out at me

Republican Representative Trey Gowdy said his committee lacked documentation from Clinton's trip to Libya after the attack despite a popular photo image of her using a handheld device during a flight to that country.

"We have no emails from that day. In fact we have no emails from that trip," said Gowdy, who heads the committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. "There are huge gaps."

There is a big old problem with this statement.

The picture of her on the flight to Libya was not AFTER the Sept. 11th 2012 attack on Benghazi.
The picture was from a trip almost a full year before the 2012 attack.

THe picture was taken on a trip to Libya on Oct 18th 2011.

Link to the following quote: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/texts-from-hillary

The image of the then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was taken by Reuters photographer Kevin Lamarque while she was awaiting departure aboard a military C-17 Globemaster III[2] flight from Malta to Tripoli, Libya on October 18th, 2011.

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Did he just make this up? He will probably say he "misspoke". Or maybe he will just say nothing.

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Adding of course Gowdy is referencing this photo:

[msanthrope]

1. I wonder what Gowdy's DUer name is. nt

[OKNancy]

2. LOL

[leftofcool]

5. That was just plain damn funny!

[Kingofalldems]

11. Boom.

[riqster]

12. If one can be said to drop the mic when posting online,

That qualified.

[mountain grammy]

15. very funny..

Thinking of going over to Free Republic or something like that and taking the name TreyGowdyduh!

[CincyDem]

3. OMG - you're trying to let facts get in the way of a good rethug rant ???

sheesh when will you ever learn.

Seriously, classic republican tactic. I'm sure these guys know it's irrelevant but, in their mind, they're serving a "greater good" that sometimes requires a repositioning of the facts on the ground.

[madokie]

4. The 'CONs are going to do to Hillary as they did to Bill

keep on investigating until maybe just maybe they can find something to hang on her. it sucks that our media is no longer the fourth leg of the stool called democracy. Without a working press there can be no democracy.

[Thinkingabout]

16. As they do to any Democrat.

[CTyankee]

6. This needs to be sent to Morning Joe. Joe S. had Gowdy on doing his thing and

AFAIK the show hasn't retracted it.

[maindawg]

7. standard procedure

lie and then lie some more. I saw this a hole on tv yesterday. I knew he was lying. But thats is how they do. Just get the lie out there and let it germinate, prop it up, smear , repeat.
Hillary is doing the right thing.Let the talking heads play with their new toy till they tire of it.

[66 dmhlt]

8. Didn't know Trey Gowdy Played Draco Malfoy ...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Well

What else do you expect?

[Fred Sanders]

10. Only on Fox can one be sure the most bald faced and partisan smears will get no doubting.

Fox is a malignant rumor on democracy. A lie and smear factory that exists only for that purpose.

[OKNancy]

14. the LBN thread was from Reuter's and it has just as many recs as this thread

even though it's a total falsehood. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141033620

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. But look at the guy. Doesn't he just ooze "smart guy" to you?