The way the questions are worded, it seems that Grassley-Graham already know the answers to these questions.
The way the questions are worded, it seems that Grassley-Graham already know the answers to these questions.
First Rule of Lawyers’ Club: Never ask a question the answer to which you don’t already know.
“The way the questions are worded, it seems that Grassley-Graham already know the answers to these questions.”
And THAT is in precise particular the hallmark of a pointed, deliberate, litigation-savvy questioner.
If you go back and listen to Darryl Issa asking witness questions during the various hearings he chaired, you will understand the difference between someone who “thinks” they are a lawyer; (Issa was not an atty) and one who is a skilled litigator. Every question Issa ever asked had 2 or 3 possible answers. This drove me utterly flaming nuts. The witnesses could answer “well, perhaps it could have been this way, or, perhaps it could be that way”. And as a result he could never zero in on a plan of attack where the witness answered a train of questions that....ANSWERED THE QUESTIONS. The witnesses, instead, were invited to throw out seed corn this way and that and generate endless possibilities of indetermination. Drove me batty. I actually wrote Mr. Issa and pleaded with him to let Trey Gowdy prepare his questions and to quit destructively “winging it”.