What a pile of flaming horses**t. With what is well known and entirely documented, a second-year law student with a B average in cross examination should have been able to get Comey completely crossed up and compelled to admit massive misdeeds.
This is what the GOP always does, the classic Darrel Issa method. Unprepared, they ask shit questions, always giving the deponent a free ride out.
A: (What an actual attorney would ask) “So, knowing that this dossier was a total fabrication as you did for months and yet you proceeded to justify four FISA warrant applications on bogus information, is there any alternative to concluding that you performed and approved a deliberate fraud upon the FISA court?”
B: (Issa would ask) “Do you remember what date you found out that the dossier was possibly erroneous in its content?”
Pisses me off more than just about anything. They ask shit questions, because they just wing it.
Yep!
This is what the GOP always does, the classic Darrel Issa method. Unprepared, they ask shit questions, always giving the deponent a free ride out.
It was shocking how feeble Grassley (87 years old!) was off script. Probably a combination of his age and his staff not preparing him.