Fox News host Trey Gowdy on Friday cautioned that any serious inquiry into Jeffrey Epsteins network will demand that investigators handle Bill Clinton with unusual rigor and care.
According to the Daily Caller, the House Oversight Committee has conducted closed-door depositions with Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of its ongoing probe into Epsteins activities. During a panel discussion on Special Report with Bret Baier, Gowdy argued that investigators cannot afford to treat Clinton as an ordinary witness, given his long history of legalistic evasions.
We know what you say you didnt do. Keep in mind, Bret, this is the same guy that managed to diagram the word is, which is almost impossible to diagram that word, but he did it, Gowdy said, recalling Clintons infamous parsing during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. In his Aug. 17, 1998 grand jury testimony during the independent counsel investigation, Clinton responded to a question about his relationship with Lewinsky by saying, It depends upon what the meaning of the word is is. If is means is and never has been, that is not that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.
Gowdy stressed that this history should serve as a warning to current investigators, who must be prepared to challenge Clintons answers in real time. Its legitimate to ask him. You better follow up with Bill Clinton, OK? Did you see it? What did you hear? What did other people tell you? Hearsay is completely admissible in an investigation like this one. They call him Slick Willie for a reason, Bret. Im going to be interested in what the transcript has to say, he said.
Arkansas journalist Paul Greenberg coined the nickname Slick Willie in 1980 after then-Gov. Bill Clinton reversed course on policy issues, using the term to accuse him of political opportunism. Critics on the right have long cited that moniker as evidence that Clintons political survival has often depended on clever wordplay and shifting explanations rather than straightforward accountability.
Following the Clintons deposition, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said investigators uncovered new information during the closed-door sessions with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Comer indicated that the panel pressed them with detailed questions about subpoenaed documents and correspondence obtained from the Department of Justice, signaling that conservatives in Congress intend to keep the pressure on until the full extent of Epsteins political connections is brought to light.
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