It’s a good question, and I don’t know the answer, but this morning on another thread, rugbymom asked if anyone has any speculation. I do, so I’m gonna speculate. Not long before I saw rugbymom’s question, I ran across Unenergy’s comment on one of annieli’s diaries which contained this link to a December 6th, 2017 letter written to Trey Gowdy by Elijah Cummings. I don’t know why Gowdy left the Ethics committee, but I speculate that this letter somehow plays into that turn of events.
The letter was published in the New York Times. It’s about the deal Flynn was trying to do with the Russians to get nuclear power plants built in the Middle East. I remember the story at the time, and it came back into my thoughts with this week’s news of the indictment of Mike Lambert, but I had not read the letter until this morning
In his letter, Cummings describes in great detail a whistleblower’s conversation with Alex Copson on inauguration day last year. Copson was the managing partner of ACU Strategic Partners and was working with Michael Flynn on the Russian nuclear plants deal. During that inauguration day conversation, Copson showed the whistleblower a text message he had received from Michael Flynn earlier that day at 12:11 pm, at which time Trump was still giving his inauguration speech. The text said that the project was “good to go”. According to the whistleblower, as Cummings relates it, Copson told the whistleblower, “This is the best day of my life. This is something that I’ve been working on for four years, and we are good to go.”
Cummings goes on to express his frustration at Gowdy’s not having subpoenaed key witnesses who could bear witness to the veracity of the whistleblowers claims. He requested that Gowdy subpoena five people, including John Kelly and KT McFarland.
I know this is old news, but I think some of y’all may be like me and while the news was interesting on the 6th when it broke, I was busy with end of year stuff and never clicked links through to get to the letter. I clicked through this morning, and it’s an incredible letter and extremely lucidly written. It paints a picture of a scene that could come straight out of a Tom Clancy novel. If you haven’t read it and are interested in the Russia investigation, this is one you won’t want to miss.
Like I say, I think it probably has something to do with why Trey Gowdy no longer sits on the Ethics Committee.