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The Impeachment Debacle
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/the-impeachment-debacle/ ^ | 10/24/2019 | John C. Velisek USN (Ret.)

Posted on 10/24/2019 2:27:55 PM PDT by samovar123

Over the past month, impeachment has been the word of the day in the media and the progressive socialists. The so-called impeachment inquiry that has not allowed the House of Representatives to vote for its implementation has degraded to a soviet Beria type of search for a crime. Adam Schiff is a fraud. It is an investigation in search of a crime. It has become a tyrannical show trial by Adam Schiff, a highly contemptible legislator with his own ties to Ukrainian oligarchs. Schiff has ignored the rule of law and has shown his ignorance in disavowing the provisions traditionally followed in the impeachment process. Schiff has no conscience when it comes to lying, even going as far as making up a statement that was a total lie and reading his lies at a House of Representatives that was in millions of homes in the country. Adam Schiff has become an egomaniac obsessed with no other purpose but to get President Trump out of office. The two years wasted on the bogus Mueller collusion investigation would not have gone as long as it had. The people of our country would not be a house divided without Schiff constantly declaring that he had incontrovertible evidence of the Trump-Russia collusion. He lied. Schiff lied then, and he is lying now. The transcript shines a light on the corruption in Ukraine and our country. It is not being mentioned that President Trump was inquiring about Crowdstrike and the ties with the 2016 election. Crowdstrike was the same company that did the forensics for the DNC that claimed that it was the Russians that hijacked the election. It must be understood that the intelligence agencies in our country never did any investigation on the server because the DNC refused to turn it over to the intelligence services. This was the basis for the entire collusion narrative. Even today, there is no evidence of Russia hacking the DNC.

A corrupt press is taking part in the impeachment push. The talking heads who are nothing more than a cadre of progressive socialists and an adjunct part of the Democrat Party have blared forth a continuing barrage of innuendo and talking points leaked by Adam Schiff. Once again, we are back to "bombshells" breathlessly reported by the press, which are later debunked by facts. They all talk to President Trump being a liar, a racist, and a lawbreaker. Turn on any fake news show, and you will see the false outrage that they want the American people to believe. The whistleblower is more informant that a whistleblower. The impeachment is predicated on written testimony from a CIA based entity, who worked with Joe Biden, and spoke to Adam Schiff before filing this report. Adam Schiff lied about this as well. He is being called a “whistleblower” to assure that he has protection for his actions. A great deal of what he has stated has been debunked, but the progressive socialist media will continue to push this charade as long as it can. Statements like the President asked eight times for an investigation into the quid pro quo of the Bidens, which proved to be false. After President Trump released the transcript, Schiff then changed his talking point. Adam Schiff then claimed the quid pro quo was there, and after that was shown to be a lie, Schiff than changed his story again, claiming no quid pro quo was needed for impeachment. Every time the braying Adam Schiff blurts out another lying statement for the adoring press it has been proven to be misleading, and in many cases, as a totally fabricated lie. It is Schiff that now wants the informant to give his testimony in writing. This precludes cross-examination. And when that failed, he stated he refuses to let the informant testify at all. Chuck Schumer has pushed the narrative that the whistleblower must remain unknown because President Trump has said that he has the right to "confront his accuser. What President Trump said was that he has the right to "meet" his accuser. The use of the word "confront" by Schumer is just another lie being used to paint President Trump as unstable and easily angered. The Authority of the Congress must be based on the Constitution. While they may disagree with the policies of the President, the matter of the administration of his policies is not an impeachable offense. The tenure of the President has never been a matter of the political will of Congress to agree. It also is not based on secret testimony that no one but the progressive socialists to see and selectively leak to the press. Congress is not above the law as they are very vocal about when it comes to the President. Someone needs to tell loudmouth Maxine Waters, that no, impeachment is not about whatever Congress says it is. There was no quid-pro-quo that anyone could find, and even if there were, it would not be an impeachable offense. You will hear the progressive talking heads talk that President should be impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate the Biden debacle. It is not an investigation of a potential adversary in an election, but an investigation of corruption in the Ukraine of which Joe Biden was a large part. The investigation is looking at the past and not the future of Joe and Hunter Biden as bleak as it may be. There is nothing in the Constitution that compels the Executive branch to cooperate in an impeachment investigation. If they need the documents from the Executive branch, they must go through the Judiciary. Impeachments should not rest in the hands of a few partisan dictating to our President of his administration. The letters sent to the personnel that the Schiff led inquisition has sent out are not subpoenas, and can and should be ignored. The press has bent over backward to call the subpoenas, and if not followed will lead to counts of obstruction. It is all just a clown show. A selective investigation is not warranted. The impeachment process, now being held in secrecy by Adam Schiff with only his selective leaks, is to keep the information from the American public. It has even gone so far as Adam Schiff attempting to pressure the United States special representative Kurt Volker to say the there was a quid pro quo. When Volker refused to agree, Adam Schiff stated: "Ambassador, you are making this much more complicated than it has to be.” Is this a statement that would be made by anyone looking to find the truth? Does an investigator pressure witnesses to state claim that they know not to be true? Does an investigator leak what is of substance in a partisan witch hunt? It is not proper for a witness to be browbeaten, to have his testimony purged in the fashion of Soviet trials. In totalitarian socialist countries, the citizens are kept in the dark, and all trials become show trials of lies, innuendo, and leaks. This is not the way our Congress should be done.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: adamschiff; congress; coup; impeachment; mediabias

1 posted on 10/24/2019 2:27:55 PM PDT by samovar123
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To: samovar123

Adam Schiff shows not merely ignorance, but willful ignorance, feigning his outrage at the “unbecoming” behavior of he House Republicans, and figuratively thumbing his nose at all the insistence on use of precedent and august, impartial review of verifiable factual information relevant to the question at hand.

Only in the La-la Land of California politics, with its “jungle primary” means of choosing representatives to elective office, could such a farce as the election of Adam Schiff to the US House of Representatives, an office for which he is singularly unqualified, have taken place without raising a furor in his own district.

California is officially a failed state.


2 posted on 10/24/2019 2:40:12 PM PDT by alloysteel (Nowhere in the Universe is there escape from the consequences of the crime of stupidity.)
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To: samovar123

PARAGRAPHS!!!! UNREADABLE!


3 posted on 10/24/2019 2:40:15 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: samovar123

Impee Foe Fie!


4 posted on 10/24/2019 2:42:46 PM PDT by Spruce
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To: Ann Archy

The Impeachment Debacle

By John C. Velisek USN Ret, on October 24th, 2019
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/the-impeachment-debacle/

Over the past month, impeachment has been the word of the day in the media and the progressive socialists. The so-called impeachment inquiry that has not allowed the House of Representatives to vote for its implementation has degraded to a soviet Beria type of search for a crime.

Adam Schiff is a fraud.

It is an investigation in search of a crime. It has become a tyrannical show trial by Adam Schiff, a highly contemptible legislator with his own ties to Ukrainian oligarchs. Schiff has ignored the rule of law and has shown his ignorance in disavowing the provisions traditionally followed in the impeachment process. Schiff has no conscience when it comes to lying, even going as far as making up a statement that was a total lie and reading his lies at a House of Representatives that was in millions of homes in the country.

Adam Schiff has become an egomaniac obsessed with no other purpose but to get President Trump out of office. The two years wasted on the bogus Mueller collusion investigation would not have gone as long as it had. The people of our country would not be a house divided without Schiff constantly declaring that he had incontrovertible evidence of the Trump-Russia collusion. He lied. Schiff lied then, and he is lying now.

The transcript shines a light on the corruption in Ukraine and our country.

It is not being mentioned that President Trump was inquiring about Crowdstrike and the ties with the 2016 election. Crowdstrike was the same company that did the forensics for the DNC that claimed that it was the Russians that hijacked the election. It must be understood that the intelligence agencies in our country never did any investigation on the server because the DNC refused to turn it over to the intelligence services. This was the basis for the entire collusion narrative. Even today, there is no evidence of Russia hacking the DNC.

A corrupt press is taking part in the impeachment push.

The talking heads who are nothing more than a cadre of progressive socialists and an adjunct part of the Democrat Party have blared forth a continuing barrage of innuendo and talking points leaked by Adam Schiff. Once again, we are back to “bombshells” breathlessly reported by the press, which are later debunked by facts. They all talk to President Trump being a liar, a racist, and a lawbreaker. Turn on any fake news show, and you will see the false outrage that they want the American people to believe.

The whistleblower is more informant that a whistleblower.

The impeachment is predicated on written testimony from a CIA based entity, who worked with Joe Biden, and spoke to Adam Schiff before filing this report. Adam Schiff lied about this as well. He is being called a “whistleblower” to assure that he has protection for his actions. A great deal of what he has stated has been debunked, but the progressive socialist media will continue to push this charade as long as it can. Statements like the President asked eight times for an investigation into the quid pro quo of the Bidens, which proved to be false. After President Trump released the transcript, Schiff then changed his talking point.

Adam Schiff then claimed the quid pro quo was there, and after that was shown to be a lie, Schiff than changed his story again, claiming no quid pro quo was needed for impeachment. Every time the braying Adam Schiff blurts out another lying statement for the adoring press it has been proven to be misleading, and in many cases, as a totally fabricated lie. It is Schiff that now wants the informant to give his testimony in writing. This precludes cross-examination. And when that failed, he stated he refuses to let the informant testify at all.

Chuck Schumer has pushed the narrative that the whistleblower must remain unknown because President Trump has said that he has the right to “confront his accuser. What President Trump said was that he has the right to “meet” his accuser. The use of the word “confront” by Schumer is just another lie being used to paint President Trump as unstable and easily angered.

The Authority of the Congress must be based on the Constitution.

While they may disagree with the policies of the President, the matter of the administration of his policies is not an impeachable offense. The tenure of the President has never been a matter of the political will of Congress to agree. It also is not based on secret testimony that no one but the progressive socialists to see and selectively leak to the press.

Congress is not above the law as they are very vocal about when it comes to the President. Someone needs to tell loudmouth Maxine Waters, that no, impeachment is not about whatever Congress says it is. There was no quid-pro-quo that anyone could find, and even if there were, it would not be an impeachable offense.

You will hear the progressive talking heads talk that President should be impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate the Biden debacle. It is not an investigation of a potential adversary in an election, but an investigation of corruption in the Ukraine of which Joe Biden was a large part. The investigation is looking at the past and not the future of Joe and Hunter Biden as bleak as it may be.

There is nothing in the Constitution that compels the Executive branch to cooperate in an impeachment investigation. If they need the documents from the Executive branch, they must go through the Judiciary. Impeachments should not rest in the hands of a few partisan dictating to our President of his administration. The letters sent to the personnel that the Schiff led inquisition has sent out are not subpoenas, and can and should be ignored. The press has bent over backward to call the subpoenas, and if not followed will lead to counts of obstruction. It is all just a clown show.

A selective investigation is not warranted.

The impeachment process, now being held in secrecy by Adam Schiff with only his selective leaks, is to keep the information from the American public. It has even gone so far as Adam Schiff attempting to pressure the United States special representative Kurt Volker to say the there was a quid pro quo. When Volker refused to agree, Adam Schiff stated:

“Ambassador, you are making this much more complicated than it has to be.”

Is this a statement that would be made by anyone looking to find the truth? Does an investigator pressure witnesses to state claim that they know not to be true? Does an investigator leak what is of substance in a partisan witch hunt?

It is not proper for a witness to be browbeaten, to have his testimony purged in the fashion of Soviet trials. In totalitarian socialist countries, the citizens are kept in the dark, and all trials become show trials of lies, innuendo, and leaks. This is not the way our Congress should be done.


6 posted on 10/24/2019 2:44:18 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: samovar123
A key question in this debacle is what is Schiff hiding? We know Pelosi’s motive is to protect her son, who may have been doing the Biden “secret empire” scheme for her benefit, as well as his own. Expose his motive and the whole thing is likely to fall apart, as it already should have on day one.
7 posted on 10/24/2019 2:52:25 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: sauropod

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8 posted on 10/24/2019 2:53:14 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: MarvinStinson; GCFADG
These types of cries of anguish sadden me; umbrage and outrage as the pitiful fist waves at Leviathan. It's a terrible tragedy to live one's life under the illusion of fantasy, only to finally have the truth revealed in all its ugly glory.

What the author and so many other 100s of millions of Americans who are not financially secure fail to realize is the allure and addiction once achieved. As the saying goes, they'd sell out their own mothers for a chance at the golden ring. The lack of worry, of concern over bills, the almost mundanely routine decisions about homes, clothing, vacations, what to eat, where to send junior to school, etc are all the purview of those firmly ensconced within government.

To imagine Sh!t is working independently, as if he's some kind of lone wolf gone rogue is utterly ridiculous. Rather, Sh!t is merely a proxy for a literal army of millions who are all directly/indirectly supporting his efforts. Consider the allegory of the cave: Sh!t is the shadow. Those who are clueless may imagine one man standing alone outside, yet those with a broader & deeper understanding of human nature, history and government know the shadow we're seeing is but a mere flat representation of vast forces marshaled against Trump.

Sh!t's not the problem - he's simply the visible tip of the spear. Focusing one's wrath on such a singular target simply says more about the persons holding those opinion rather than presenting any unique insight or understanding.

Anyway, the subject of he said/she said is all rather boring. What those in the know are really waiting for is to see when/if Trump acts. If he doesn't, then we resume the trajectory set in 1988. (Or, maybe dialing all the way back to 1963.) Was it that bad? Perhaps only in contrast of what so many thought might be attainable with Trump; but realistically, a defeat of liberty that many can come to accept.

9 posted on 10/24/2019 3:05:20 PM PDT by semantic
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To: samovar123

Schiff’s actions make me wonder how many people he similarly railroaded as a prosecutor resulting is innocent people being incarcerated...


10 posted on 10/24/2019 3:09:46 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Bavarian Clockworks to name their next cuckoo clock The Warren!!!)
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To: semantic

You know the rent is in arrears,
The dog has not been fed in years,
it’s even worse than it appears,
but it’s alright.


11 posted on 10/24/2019 3:14:01 PM PDT by GCFADG (Pardon me.)
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To: samovar123

FUBAR


12 posted on 10/24/2019 3:31:32 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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