Posted on 01/27/2020 7:14:10 AM PST by raptor22
“Evidence and witnesses!” is the constant refrain from the House impeachment managers like Rep. Adam “Shifty” Schiff and Rep. Jerry “Jabba” Nadler even as Schiff had hidden evidence in the form of the transcript for his star-chamber interview with ICIG Michael Atkinson and block witness in the person of himself and the Ukraine phone call whistleblower. The hypocrisy of it all is underscored by the fact that by hiding the whistleblower and the details of his initial contacts with Schiff and the ICIG, Schiff and the House managers are denying President Trump a basic constitutional right -- the right to confront one’s accuser. Why the President’s Senate defenders have not hammered this point home is a mystery.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That slimy weasel Ciaranella doesn’t have to worry about retaliation; we cannot fire the 50% of FedGov that is engaged in treason. [I wish we could and wold, but that is not going to happen.]
I don’t think that Schiff is protecting the “whistle blower” as much as he’s protecting himself.
Schifty is a trained Federal Prosecutor.
He is Skilled in the Art of the DOJ and its wholly owned subsidiary, The FIB.
Well 50% would sure make a dent in the budget deficit.
There is no reason to blame Schiff for this. The GOP Senate has had 3 months to gather these facts and make them public, too. They have chosen not to. Therefore, you have to assign blame to the so-called Republican controlled Senate for once again refusing to substantively support a GOP POTUS by hiding these coup related facts.
The Bolton leak is an attempt to tamper with the jury. I’m not a lawyer but that is probably a crime committed by the leaker and the media.
Schifty is a trained Federal Prosecutor.
To bad he didn’t learn that one must deal in facts not wishful thinking,he must have been one of the slow ones in the class room.
How was the republic overthrown by the CRIMINAL STATE? Let us witness the ways.
Oddly, the DOJ has not disavowed his tactics.
The info is classified under house rules until the chair declassifies it.
Your post is less than half true.
Great article. I had not fully appreciated how deep in the slime Atkinson was. It’s worth reading the two letters linked in the article that Atkinson wrote to Schiff, circumventing the decisions of his boss, the DNI acting Director.
I remember at the time that the DNI Director had determined that the “whistleblower’s” complaint had no standing, but that Atkinson had revised several policies and then sent it on anyway. This article shows how corrupt that action actually was.
I believe that AG Barr has authority to release the Atkinson testimony under Trump’s delegation of declassification authority in this matter. It should be demanded that he obtain and release it immediately.
The info is classified under house rules until the chair declassifies it.
Your post is less than half true.
Well, duh. All the Senate has to do is call the IC IG as a witness and ask the same questions. Why is this so difficult?
Tom Cotton wrote a stern letter to the IC IG. Then gloated about it publicly. Unsurprisingly, we haven’t heard a word from Cotton since then about the issue.
The classifying authority is not the executive branch. AG Barr cannot declassify this piece. Only the legislative branch can.
Are you suggesting doing this in Senate committee, or in the impeachment trial?
There is a huge risk in doing so in the impeachment. The Senate could put itself in the position of unilaterally negating executive privilege, effectively ending it.
If you are speaking of activities that should have happened while the drama played out in the house (prior to the article transmittal), then I am more in agreement.
Swamp at work Obama’s army?
If this isn't hit hard in the next two days, I'd like to know the reason.
Witness 19! Call your Senators.
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