House Rush to Judgment

Representative Trey Gowdy, who bills himself as an experienced and impartial prosecutor in his earlier life, is now spearheading a mad dash to close down the investigation, by the House Intelligence Committee, of Russian interference and Trump campaign collusion in the last election (Dec. 16, p.A14). Stacking multiple interviews on short notice, in different locations, on dates inconvenient to Democratic committee members, Republicans seek to end harmlessly the congressional inquiry even as they badmouth the continuing investigation being conducted so professionally by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Rep. Gowdy, who found it perfectly appropriate to prolong a needless revisitation of Benghazi for the umpteenth time, to badger the Clinton campaign, has now falsely opined , even before all the interviews have been concluded, that no evidence of collusion or conspiracy has been produced. It would seem Mr. Gowdy's sense of timing (and fairness) depend upon the political identity of his subject