Posted on 10/15/2019 2:26:13 AM PDT by Libloather
America’s top two Trump-hating newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, have now both called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold a vote of the full House of Representatives to make the “impeachment inquiry” truly official - and to set rules like those for the inquiries targeting Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, so that the minority party and the White House weren’t totally sidelined.
So far, though, Pelosi and her impeachment pointman, Rep. Adam Schiff, are moving the opposite way.
President Trump and other Republicans have been complaining about Schiff’s decision to hold most hearings behind closed doors, yet the Intelligence Committee chief opted for even greater secrecy in last Friday’s questioning of Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine - conducting it as a deposition, which makes it a criminal offense for either side to discuss her answers.
That keeps even the rest of the House in the dark about everything except the opening statement Yovanovitch made public.
Schiff is going to even greater lengths when it comes to the whistleblower whose complaint launched this whole … adventure. He might not even have the guy testify - which would remove any chance for anyone to probe his motives and biases.
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Indeed. The DemocRATs made a grave tactical error here.
What does this have to do with hussaincare?
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You have to vote for hussaincare to find out what’s in it.
You have to vote for impeachment to find out the crime.
“What does this have to do with hussaincare?”
Nothing.
And most Republicans are silent... Cue the Cricket’s.
Matt Gaetz was thrown out of a hearing but other than that it appears as if R’s are at home sipping their preferred libations.
Hillary was never ‘kicked off’ the Watergate committee.
An educated guess: Nancy will call for a full House vote on impeachment the day before or the day when DOJ report comes out on the Russian collusion hoax so the main stream media doesn’t have to cover it.
This from the Cato Institute:
So it’s pretty clear that Jerry Zeifman, chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate inquiry, had a low opinion of the young Yale Law graduate Hillary Rodham. But because she reported to the chief counsel of the impeachment inquiry, who was hired separately by the committee and did not report to Zeifman, Zeifman had no authority over her. He simply didn’t hire her for the permanent committee staff after the impeachment inquiry ended.
Hillary Then marred Bill and fled to Arkansas. Her horrible performance on the committee and no recommendation made her unhireable in DC
The demorats are secretly conspiring to overthrow the grovernment of the United States.
The solution is multiple arrests, immediate trials and immediate executions.
Schiff is conducting a kangaroo court. A similar court that executes sxhiff needs to be conducted.
Then how would know about the phone call?
Schiff doesnt want the whistleblower surfacing anywhere on Capitol Hill b/c
Schiff would have to answer questions about his own sleazy involvement with the w/b.
Schiff doesnt want the whistleblower surfacing anywhere on Capitol Hill b/c
Schiff would have to answer questions about his own sleazy involvement with the w/b.
Schiff acts like he’s a judge running a Grand Jury......but there’s a monumental distinction:....
a grand jury is a criminal proceeding. Impeachment is a political process in which
the House gathers evidence to define the meaning of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Schiff wants it both ways:
<><> Run secret committees hearings like a criminal Grand Jury......
<><> then impeach Mr. Trump of political offenses even if the President committed no crime.
IOW, he’s already made up his mind....Trump is guilty of something........so let’s nail him.
Schiff was challenged on his committee’s unheard of secrecy and his response on Sunday talk TV was frightening:
“we want to make sure that we meet the needs of the investigation (and the hell with Pres Trump’s Constitutional right to be heard).
Among the provisions of the Sixth Amendment are these:
“The accused shall ... be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation;
be confronted with the witnesses against him;
have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor...”
Schiff is running a conspiracy to over turn the American Government.
Schiff must be destroyed. So long as he exists he will be a large problem.
What you are not seeing is the process in which the fascists plan on disrupting our election.
No question......the man’s lust for power is tangible....he will resort to anything to get it.
There will never be a vote. What they have to vote on is ridiculous and they have to spell it all out to have something to vote on and that will look silly on its own
This is all about creating fear, uncertainty, doubt and fatigue for the next 12 months to hurt Trump’s strong re-election chances.
Pretty bad when you use limited and controlled investigative processes to harm a political opponent.
Oops, that is what Trump supposedly did. O that is right always accuse your opponent of being what you are.
Election fraud is a separate issue and not related specifically to the dangerous seditionist Adam Schiff.
It’s called a smoke screen.
They think we will accept their shenanigans. Not this time.
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