Schiff says committees will make impeachment inquiry transcripts public when ...

The Hill ^ | 10/16/19 | Rachel Frazin

[yesthatjallen]

Schiff says committees will make impeachment inquiry transcripts public when it would not 'jeopardize investigative equities'

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said in a letter Wednesday that interview transcripts from closed-door impeachment inquiry depositions will be made public when they do not "jeopardize investigative equities."

The Dear Colleague letter is designed to counter arguments from Republicans in both the White House and Congress that Democrats are conducting an invalid investigation, since their witness interviews are being held behind closed doors, outside the eyes of the public and lawmakers who don't sit on the three committees leading the investigations.

"At a time that it will not jeopardize investigative equities, we will make the interview transcripts public, subject to any necessary redactions for classified or sensitive information," Schiff wrote.

"We also anticipate that at an appropriate point in the investigation, we will be taking witness testimony in public, so that the full Congress and the American people can hear their testimony firsthand," he added.

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"It is of paramount importance to ensure that witnesses cannot coordinate their testimony with one another to match their description of events, or potentially conceal the truth," he wrote. "I am particularly sensitive to that issue given that during the Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russia’s election interference, one witness, Michael Cohen, lied to the Committee about highly relevant issues and ultimately pled guilty for those lies."

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"It is necessary to point this out, because the President and his allies have made the false claim that GOP members and staff have been precluded from attending or asking questions — nothing could be further from the truth," the letter said.

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[Jeff Chandler]

All McConnell needs to do is take a vote and shut impeachment down.

Do you think he has the integrity and courage to do so?

[ronnie raygun]

Lets talk about Schiff visiting ed bucks house. This will quiet him down a bit

[CodeToad]

Republicans should refuse to go to the committee hearings.
Instead, they should convene a council of their own and investigate Shift.