Posted on 02/16/2018 12:18:27 PM PST by Kaslin
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said that former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon will likely be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with them.
He has refused to answer several questions about the investigation into Russian collusion, Schiff said.
"I think it's likely that he will face a contempt citation," Schiff said Thursday at a Council on Foreign Relations event.
Instead of offering information, Bannon has been citing executive privilege on behalf of President Trump.
“The only questions he would answer were questions that had been scripted, literally scripted for him by the White House,” Schiff said. “Whenever we sought to probe anything beyond the four corners of the specific wording of the question, he refused to answer. That’s not how executive privilege works.”
The "stonewalling," Schiff said, will only go so far.
Bannon has also been meeting with special counsel Robert Mueller over the past week.
Schiff and other Democrats on the Intelligence Committee are currently trying to get their rebuttal to the Republican FISA memo declassified. The Republican-authored document released a couple weeks ago is four pages long and explains how the FBI abused FISA rules to spy on members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. The Democrats allege that the memo omits key context intended to undermine the intelligence agency. Their rebuttal is six pages longer and includes those important details, they explain.
Yet, after a review, Trump decided not to release it. He cited national security concerns and wants them to make some revisions and redactions.
Schiff said no revisions will be made, but he's confident they can reach a compromise.
Schiffhead is all too predictable.
The left has no new material to work with. They can only go back in time and choose old tactics that are played out and obvious to anyone with average mental faculties.
Entertaining.
The ever contemptible Adam Schiff-for-Brains.
This is good. It means they got NOTHING from Bannon that would hurt Trump.
Well done Steve.
Hillary still holds the record for “I don’t recall”
Heck if I were called into a witch hunt investigaton I would also stick to a script to so I dont accidently have some tiny inconsitency that they would blow up into a process crime.
It isn’t Bannon’s fault that Congress is so contemptible.
Excellent point
"Schiff said Thursday at a Council on Foreign Relations event"
It didn’t bother Eric Holder.
So what? Ask “rat face” Holder, it don’t mean a thing.
Schiff should be held in contempt
of sanity. he is a few brain cells short of brain dead. BUT THEN AGAIN, HE IS A DEMOCRAT.
So what if congress holds him in contempt? Then all congress can do is refer to the justice department. And the Justice department can get right on that right after they get onto doing something about Eric Holder’s contempt charge.
“So what if congress holds him in contempt? “
I would hope to be held in contempt by those contemptible bastards.
113th Congress (2013-2014)
H.Res.574 - Recommending that the House of Representatives find Lois G. Lerner, former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Passed House without amendment (05/07/2014)
Resolves that Lois G. Lerner, former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), be found in contempt of Congress for failure to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as required by a congressional subpoena.
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to certify the Committee’s report detailing the refusal of Ms. Lerner to testify before the Committee as directed by the subpoena to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to the end that Ms. Lerner be proceeded against in the manner and form provided by law, and to otherwise take all appropriate action to enforce the subpoena.
No, not crickets but an $8 million a year gig as a bank dick for one of the “too big to fail” toxic loan bundler banks whom his JD would not prosecute!
Bannon to Schiff, "Absolutely. Integrity demands it."
Adam is REAL piece of SCHIFF!!
Adam is always spinning, spinning, spinning. In his honor, there are new wheel spinners -—
https://twitter.com/DCCogan/status/966032030587736065
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