Posted on 11/02/2019 3:19:22 AM PDT by Windflier
One of the charges Democrats have leveled against Trump is that the White House improperly put the transcript of his call with the Ukrainian president on a special server used to protect highly classified information. Yet Democrats are doing the very same thing, conducting impeachment depositions inside a SCIF, improperly using a classified system to restrict access to nonclassified information not just to the public but to members of Congress. Talk about hypocrisy.
Let’s be clear: There is nothing wrong with holding hearings behind closed doors as long as there is due process. During the Nixon impeachment much of the evidence was presented in closed-door sessions. But there was not a flood of leaks from those executive sessions, as we are seeing today. And unlike today, the minority could issue subpoenas, and the president’s counsel was present to cross-examine witnesses and present evidence. Secrecy and fairness go hand in hand. One without the other is corrupt.
The partisan nature of the Democrats’ inquiry will backfire in a number of ways. For one thing, it allows Republicans to make the case to the American people that the process is unfair, and if there is one thing Americans demand, it is fairness. If the facts are on the Democrats’ side, they have nothing to fear from transparency and due process. Second, their partisan behavior has given the president justification to refuse to cooperate with the investigation, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower refused to cooperate with the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. And finally, it has made it easier for congressional Republicans to rally around the president. Right now, Republicans are more torn about Trump’s Syria policy than they are about his impeachment inquiry. By failing to show even a modicum of fairness, Democrats have turned impeachment into a game of shirts vs. skins.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
WaPo said that? wow. Even a broken clock is right twice a day...
This is from WAPO? A prime rat supporter? For this outfit to turn against the rats, there must be something terribly wrong behind the scenes.
It will only backfire if people go out and vote and kick out the democrats from all elected offices, like in the state of Virginia.I
Please vote, folks.
JoMa
It already has backfired. They got 0 votes from Republicans including the many RINOs and never-Trumpers because of this.
In 1998 when the GOP ran a fair inquiry, 31 of 206 Democrats voted for it (15% of their caucus). What a big difference.
IINM, this is from a token conservative. This is not the WaPo’s position on the issue.
I think all WaPo is doing....is preparing hard-set folks for the let-down that will come in about four months. Once the impeachment effort comes to a closure and Trump is standing there with most of a billion dollars in campaign funds from supporters and ‘life’ still in his system....they are screwed.
Look over at numbers for Warren, Sanders, and the rest. Beto is finished today. Trump may end up with 45 states in the Electoral College.
Blind squirrel..... nut....
That's one HUGE difference that is going on for President Trump.
And that tells me that there is a greater chance of Dem conspiracy....particularly since the whistleblower met with Schitt....and there is no difference between the whistleblower meeting with Schitt's staff member and Schitt himself....since that staff member represents and conveys "everything" to Schitt. IF that was not so, then Schitt would have to say that he "knew nothing" of the whistleblower BEFORE the complaint was filed.
AND no one has mentioned a date that the whistleblower met with Schitt's staff. We need a precise date....and I'm almost betting that it was JUST BEFORE the phone call.
Agreed
Just a note....The law under which Andrew Johnson was impeached was repealed as being unconstitutional.
Uh, no. The message has gotten through. Do that and their dead, Jim.
Trump is masterful and the rats and their media sidekicks are bumbling idiots being played
......WAPO said that?
Thiessen is also from the American Enterprise Institute and is often on Fox. Rest assured this is not the position of the ComPost.
Didn’t a young lawyer working on Nixon’s impeachment get fired for trying to deny Nixon due process during that impeachment process?
Democrat leadership had integrity back then. unfortunately today that young lawyer may be behind the scenes and hasn’t changed her modus operandi.
Who woke up at that trash toilet paper propaganda rag known as the Washiting Post.
The Democrats MUST stop President Trump. They know that he will be re-elected in a landslide victory and will expose the TRUTH about them and their crimes. TRUTH will destroy them.
They have tried everything. They have combed through every possible record for 3 years and found NOTHING.
"Impeachment" is their last desperate last-ditch effort to stop Trump and to stop TRUTH!
They are cornered. They are desperate. They are dangerous. NOTHING is beneath them.
The Democrat Party is truly the Party of HATE, VIOLENCE, AND EVIL!
It's long ignominious history--from the pro-slavery party--to the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and lynching--to infanticide, communism, satanism, coup d'état, "high tech lynching"--and "IMPEACHMENT"--continues as the PARTY OF HATE, VIOLENCE, AND EVIL!
This was in the WaPoo??? Who is this heretic!?
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