Gowdy: "So you see no potential conflict of interest, you don't think this is an extraordinary fact pattern, you don't trust your fellow citizens to make the call."
Tiefer: "It's not a matter of trusting ... you can't run the Department of Justice and decide extraordinary questions of the law by poll number, no I ... "
Gowdy: "Neither can you prejudge the outcome of an investigation that hasn't even started. You can't do that when you're the chief law enforcement officer for this country. And it wasn't a 'hot mic' situation [when Obama said there "isn't a smidgeon of corruption"] where he was whispering to Eric Holder, it's on the most watched television show in our culture [The O'Reilly Factor]. He prejudges and investigation, and you want us to expect that the outcome of this is going to have any validity or credibility. It's not gonna happen."
Gowdy snookered him. A professor of constitutional law should know better than the cross a former federal prosecutor. There's a very good chance the former prosecutor actually knows what he's talking about, while for the professor it's all theory.
Great stuff. :thumbsup: