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James Comey reportedly willing to testify before Congress — but only under one condition
The Blaze ^ | 05/13/2017 | Justin Haskins

Posted on 05/13/2017 10:59:22 AM PDT by ForYourChildren

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To: BenLurkin

Right it’s so be can’t answer certain questions plus he can showboat. His 30 seconds is over.


21 posted on 05/13/2017 11:15:40 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: ForYourChildren
but he has one important condition that must be met if he is to testify: The hearing needs to be held in public.

Not that he's a showboat or anything like that.

22 posted on 05/13/2017 11:15:45 AM PDT by Nachoman (My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
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To: Truth29

Remember the IRS criminal director who came across like the Virgin Mary without really testifying. Screw Comey.


23 posted on 05/13/2017 11:17:04 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Will Chicolini and Pinky testify?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmScynxUaa8


24 posted on 05/13/2017 11:17:16 AM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)
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UT, oh.......that’s Hillary’s trick.....and Gowdy let her get away ith it.

Gowdy’s Benghazi Committee had Hillary scheduled for a private testimony......like Comey, Hillary insisted she would only testify in public.

God only knows Gowdy’s thinking....that he was so clever he’d have Hillary in tears on broadcast TV?

Caving in to Hillary allowed her to skate on Benghazi.

COMEY MUST NOT TESTIFY BEFORE THE CAMERAS.


25 posted on 05/13/2017 11:17:57 AM PDT by Liz (Shutting down conservatives' free speech is a form of hate speech. samtheman)
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To: hsmomx3
And I can only imagine what he would say about POTUS. I say no, this is a set-up on his part.

I'm actually perfectly fine with the condition -- the right to public hearings on criminal matters/charges is actually codified in the Bill of Rights:

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Though like speedy, the judicial system has pretty well screwed it up by wrangling in exceptions.
26 posted on 05/13/2017 11:18:53 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: txhurl
DJT can de-classify each piece of data that he might be questioned on the day before the hearing, robbing him of that defense.

Or, for ultimate LOLs, Mr. Trump could attend the hearing with a stack of declassification EO templates and every time he cites classification declassify it then and there.

27 posted on 05/13/2017 11:22:16 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: ForYourChildren
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28 posted on 05/13/2017 11:23:45 AM PDT by yoe (Genesis was first.)
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To: hsmomx3

You’re probably right, because whatever Comey is up to it’s gonna be all politics without substance or truth of any kind.

And it could be he’s betting on the political consequences from his own little Comey fake news testimony in front of a large audience.

The strategy will always be how to create something out of nothing and then run with it.


29 posted on 05/13/2017 11:24:47 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: ForYourChildren

The committee can subpoena the witness. Failure to comply will result in arrest. IF Congress means anything or else it is simply theater.


30 posted on 05/13/2017 11:25:25 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: ForYourChildren

Obviously he plans to claim he can’t publicly talk about the things he doesn’t want to talk about. This guy belongs in jail. #LockComeyUp


31 posted on 05/13/2017 11:25:36 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Edward.Fish

We gotta think big here. Zero’s war against us for 8 years has dampened our hopes and expectations.

What if Comey has decided to give up Obama himself?


32 posted on 05/13/2017 11:27:26 AM PDT by txhurl (BOOM BOOM! - what is it - :)
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To: ForYourChildren

.... thus PROVING the assertion of Trump that he is a grandstander and a showboat. Grassley shouldn’t take the bait.

I am happy to entertain other opinions. Someone help me understand why I shouldn’t think Comey wouldn’t use this as an opportunity to bash his former boss.


33 posted on 05/13/2017 11:29:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: thoughtomator

Hillary too! Lock them up!

There is a submariner doing 5 years in Leavenworth for taking a selfie on a sub, he never up loaded it to a server, never emailed it to anyone.

The injustice is outrageous!


34 posted on 05/13/2017 11:30:56 AM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: ForYourChildren

The Republicans in the Senate will throw prerehearsed softballs in a public hearing. The Democrats will through flowers. The entire event will be a big show just like Hillary’s Benghazi hearing.

Remember, Lois Learner is a free woman with a full federal pension after her Congressional hearings.


35 posted on 05/13/2017 11:31:00 AM PDT by Soul of the South
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To: txhurl

Great points.


36 posted on 05/13/2017 11:32:20 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: ForYourChildren

Maybe the Senate will serve him Lobster and Steak too.


37 posted on 05/13/2017 11:34:13 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: BenLurkin

You nailed it.


38 posted on 05/13/2017 11:35:33 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: reasonisfaith

$#i+, I’ve been thinking smallball the whole time, expecting zero’s and HRC’s minions to be the first blown up in the long, slow fuse to the top. Looks like Graham was told to take Comey down, and Yates and Clapper did.

Destroying the RAT party - except for Bernie - in one fell swoop would certainly get *that* aggravation out of the way for DJT. One REAL BIG less thing.


39 posted on 05/13/2017 11:35:58 AM PDT by txhurl (BOOM BOOM! - what is it - :)
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To: thoughtomator

Where was Obie on the night Chris Stevens died?
Why did Hillary let the Consulate twist in the wind for 13 hours.
What was Stevens doing there?
Why did they over throw Gaddaffi when he was being a good little bitch?

I know for a fact that the forces they used to launch the initial attack on Libya we still in place 30 min away in Sigonella Italy..


40 posted on 05/13/2017 11:36:59 AM PDT by mylife (the roar of the masses could be farts)
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