Trey Gowdy isn’t exactly a spectator sitting in the cheap seats.

The chairman of a U.S. House select committee that sought some criminality in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s handling of the infamous siege at Benghazi, Libya, now weighs in on the preposterous claim by Donald J. Trump, who accuses Barack Obama of wiretapping his Trump Tower offices.

There’s no evidence that any such thing happened, says Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican lawmaker.

I am not prone to be complimentary of Gowdy, but this fellow might know something that your run-of-the-mill congressperson doesn’t know. His Benghazi panel went after Clinton for a couple of years over that firefight at the U.S. consulate. It found nothing on which to hang on the former secretary of state. The panel, though, was privy to reams of classified information.

“I don’t think the FBI is the Obama team, and I don’t think the men and women who are career prosecutors at [the Department of Justice] belong to any team other than a blindfolded woman holding a pair of scales,” Gowdy told Fox News, referencing the Greek goddess Themis, who represents justice and trust.

The president, though, keeps insisting that his predecessor tapped his phones, looking for dirt on the Trump campaign’s alleged relationship with the Russian government. The relationship is critical, given that intelligence agencies have concluded Russia sought to influence the results of the 2016 election in Trump’s favor.

I am one who believes the president has made it up, that he has concocted a faux scandal to rile his base and to divert attention from the controversies that are dogging him.

It appears that hell has frozen over and that I agree with something that Trey Gowdy has said.