Posted on 02/04/2020 11:48:48 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Late Tuesday morning, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky delivered one of the great speeches in American history. In the course of just five minutes, Paul exposes the whistleblower who served as the catalyst for this impeachment scam, a coup d’etat on American soil. He exposes the Chief Justice of the United States and Adam Schiff and several Schiff staffers as co-conspirators. And he exposes not one, but two Vindman brothers as also serving as willing co-conspirators in this coup attempt.
This speech is brilliant for its content, its courage, its timing and its delivery. Below is a clip, and a transcript of the key first five minutes of the speech, something I was unable to find anywhere else.
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Here’s the Transcript of the first 5 minutes – the final 90 seconds end up being repetitive:
During the proceedings, I asked a question that was disallowed, and I’m going to ask that question again this morning. Because the Constitution does protect debate, and it does protect the asking of questions.
I think they made a big mistake now allowing my question. My question did not talk anybody who is a whistleblower; my question did not accuse anybody of being a whistleblower; it did not make a statement believing someone was a whistleblower. I simply named two peoples’ names, because I think it’s very important to know what happened.
We are now finding out that the FISA investigation was predicated upon 17 lies by the FBI, by people at high levels who were biased against the President, and it turns out it was an illegitimate investigation. Everything they did to investigate the President was untrue, and it involved people using the government to do things that should have never been done in the first place.
So I asked this question, and this is my question: Are you aware that the House Committee staffer, Sean Misko, had a close relationship with Eric Ciaramella while they were at the National Security Council together? How would you respond to reports that Ciramella and Misko may have worked together to plot impeaching the President before there were formal House impeachment proceedings?
Why did I ask this question? Because there are news reports saying these two people, one of whom works for Adam Schiff, and one of them who worked with this person at the NSC, that they knew each other and had been overheard talking about impeaching the President in the first month of his office. In January of 2017, they were already plotting the impeachment.
And you say, well, we should protect the whistleblower, and the whistleblower deserve anonymity. The law does not preserve anonymity.
His boss is not supposed to say anything about him, he’s not supposed to be fired – I’m for that. But when you get into the details of talking about whistleblowers, there’s a variety of opinions around here.
The greatest whistleblower in American history in all likelihood was Edward Snowden. What do people here want to do with him? Half the people here want to put him to death; the other half want to put him in jail forever. So, it depends on what you blow the whistle on, whether or not they’re for the whistleblower statute. [TRUE]
I’m not for retributions on the whistleblower. I don’t want him to go to jail, I don’t want him to lose his job. But if six people who all worked together at the NSC knew each other and gamed the system, knowing that they would get these protections, they gamed the system in order to try to bring down the President, we should know about that.
If they had extreme bias going into the impeachment, we should know about that.
So, I think the question is an important one, and I think we should still get to the bottom of it.
Were people plotting to bring down the President? They were plotting in advance of the election – were they plotting within the halls of government to bring down the President?
Look, these people also knew the Vindman brothers, who are still in government. So, you’ve got two Vindman brothers over there who know Eric Ciaramella, who also know Sean Misko, who also knew two other people now working on Adam Schiff’s staff.
And Adam Schiff throws his hands up and says, ‘I don’t know who the whistleblower is, I’ve never met him. I have no idea who he is.’
So, if he [Schiff] doesn’t know who he is, the President’s counsel doesn’t know who he is, how does the Chief Justice of the United States know who the whistleblower is? I have no independent confirmation from anyone in the government as to who the whistleblower is.
So, how am I prevented from asking a question, when nobody seems to know who this person is?
My point is, that by having such protections, such overzealous protection, we don’t get to the root of the matter how this started. Because this could happen again.
When the institution of the bureaucracy, the intelligence community with all the power to listen into every phone conversation you have, has political bias and can game the system to go after you, that’s a real worry.
It’s a real worry that they spied on the President, but what if you’re just an average American? What if you’re just a supporter of President Trump, or you’re a Republican or you’re a conservative? Are we not concerned that secret courts could allow for warrants to listen to your phone calls, to tap into your emails, to read your text messages? I’m very concerned about that.
So, we’re going to have this discussion go on. It really isn’t about the whistleblower so much, it’s about reforming government. It’s about limiting the power of what they can do as secret courts.
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Epic. Fantastic. It’s impossible to overstate what a tremendous service Senator Paul did for our country today.
But even after this, after Senator Paul has repeatedly said Ciaramella’s name on the floor of the U.S. Senate, you can count on our corrupt, fake news media to continue its despicable pretense of not knowing the whistleblower’s name.
A pox on all their houses.
That is all.
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My opinion of Rand Paul just went way up.
And? Paul is acting like a bystander here. He is sitting United States Senator and his party controls the Senate.
Trump should say that he has “discovered” a taxpayer slush fund used by congress to pay off people who were sexually abused by members of congress. He has thus opened a investigation to expose the guilty. ....
....but he should do it after the senate has their final vote. ..just incase. ...
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John Roberts was exposed for following PC pressure, and ignoring the Law. For him to follow anything but the Law is reprehensible.
Rand Paul is a Hero.
I think one can explain Roberts’ decisions now.
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Youtube link in #12 is the place to go.
Now why would PBS cut out the name? How do they know the WB name? Kinda like the Chief Justice I guess. ...PBS is government sponsored Marxist TV.
Thanks for posting this. Its the first day I am not watching. The speech is extraordinary. A classic. I hope Trump acknowledges Rand tonight. Rand Paul doesnt agree with Trump on many things, but there comes a time an individual has to stand up for whats right. Eric’s name now in records.
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If you are not likewise interested, social norms suggest you simply move on, leaving the discussion unmolested for those who share my interest.
Good Lord, how many blogs do you to “write” each day?
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Too many BLOGS for hum-bumbling-gummer to save us from.
At least, Mr. HG, you do capitalize Good Lord.
And HE is the Truth in all this.
Your interest in one person's opinion should concern everyone.
It's a bit worshippy and culty.
If you are not likewise interested, social norms suggest you simply move on
That attitude would have kept us out of WWII and you would be posting in German now.
leaving the discussion unmolested for those who share my interest.
You are absolutely free to fawn over some dude's opinion, nothing is stopping you.
That is an outstanding speech by Rand Paul.
humblegunner:
Good Lord, how many times a day do you have to make an ass out of yourself.
It would be nice for you to make a positive contribution and carry on a decent, intelligent conversation for once.
Thank you for posting the link.
I should do what you think I should do?
Why?
I rather doubt you're interested in my opinion.
Isn't it nice to have somebody to hate on?
A contrary voice you can rally against?
Think about it.
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Absurd absolute. There are several people present who are plainly interested in, some expressly appreciative of, the content.
Your crusade against bloggers posting blog content in a forum for bloggers blogging needlessly seeks to deny such people that which they are politely interested in. This is normal social discourse, not a threat of repeating WWII.
You are, for some reason, trying to stop me from “fawning over some dude’s opinion”. I - and several others who likewise have commented - would simply like to read the thread without yet another rude intrusion by yourself. Were you to get your way, this post/thread would not exist, and those who have enjoyed it would not have.
Please stop.
You make my point. It would be nice for you to make a positive contribution and carry on a decent, intelligent conversation for once.
“So, how am I prevented from asking a question, when nobody seems to know who this person is?”
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