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Schiff Directing Witnesses Not To Answer GOP Questions
The Federalist ^ | 10/29/2019 | Tristan Justice

Posted on 10/29/2019 4:27:16 PM PDT by grayboots

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is overseeing the ongoing illegitimate impeachment inquiry set in motion by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is reportedly telling witnesses testifying not to answer questions asked by Republican lawmakers.

Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., slammed the hidden process claiming Schiff was instructing witnesses testifying behind the closed doors of the SCIF not to answer questions asked by Republican members.

“He’s directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn’t want the witness to answer if they’re asked by Republicans,” Scalise charged. “He’s not cut off one Democrat. He’s not interrupted one Democrat and told a witness not to answer Democrat members’ questions but today he started telling witnesses not to answer questions by certain Republicans.”

One question that Schiff barred a witness from answering reportedly came from Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan who attempted to asked the initial anonymous “whistleblower” who they spoke with following the infamous July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian president.

“Adam Schiff says, ‘no-no-no we’re not going to let him answer that question,’” Jordan said as reported by Fox News.

The latest charges against Schiff come as the ongoing impeachment process has been rot with allegations of bias where Schiff has been conducting a closed-door investigation interviewing witnesses whose testimony has been selectively leaked to the press to frame the president.

The secrecy of the House proceedings followed by an array of leaked testimony to promote a false narrative being peddled by the corporate media prompted about 30 House Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, D-Fla., to storm the SCIF to demand previously denied records relating to the investigation.

Schiff is blocking GOP lawmakers from asking critical questions in the proceedings two days before Pelosi has set a tentative full-chamber vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry.

The text of the resolution was released Tuesday afternoon and denies Republicans subpoena powers. In both the Nixon and Clinton proceedings, the minority party was given this right.


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To: grayboots
process has been rot with allegations of bias

Well, something for sure is rotten in the House.

21 posted on 10/29/2019 4:44:13 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: grayboots

Witnesses for what? Hey schiff-——Fah-Q!


22 posted on 10/29/2019 4:44:19 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Truth29

They should do an Animal House walkout = > [cough] “Blowjob!” [cough]


23 posted on 10/29/2019 4:44:25 PM PDT by Ken H (Crooked Hillary => Queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, personification of rot)
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To: grayboots

Right out of the Soviet Union


24 posted on 10/29/2019 4:45:30 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: grayboots

Of course not, would totally ruin the fact that this guy is a partisan HACK who lobbied on behalf of Ukraine..he’s a total fraud..Schiff is a real piece of sh*t..Id love transcripts of his conversations with his butt buddy Ed Buck


25 posted on 10/29/2019 4:45:59 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2banana

the left LOVES Russia..they just pretend to hate them now but in reality they copy everything Russia does down to the letter


26 posted on 10/29/2019 4:46:36 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: grayboots

The absolutely only way they can ever win, is to cheat. So, then, it’s allowed.


27 posted on 10/29/2019 4:47:48 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: grayboots

this Shitt guy needs to be expelled from Congress!
he’s criminal through and through imho and he’s doing a great deal of damage to this country with all his lies or manipulations or distortions or bullsheit


28 posted on 10/29/2019 4:48:11 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not , born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Osage Orange

Good grief! D?


29 posted on 10/29/2019 4:48:22 PM PDT by livius
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To: Innovative

Obstruction of Congress.


30 posted on 10/29/2019 4:50:43 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: grayboots

What do you expect from the Communists. Lenin showed them how to run these shams.


31 posted on 10/29/2019 4:50:44 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: grayboots

S-—— Schiff


32 posted on 10/29/2019 4:51:00 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: grayboots

IMO at the very minimum our guys should be holding a daily news conference and blabbing to the public about everything going on inside the Star Chamber. Let the Rats hold them in contempt and just try to make it stick.


33 posted on 10/29/2019 4:52:17 PM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: grayboots

IF Trump is impeached, part of his defense in the trial should be discovery of just HOW things were leaked out of this committee. The LEAK is the big story here (from my POV). Every thing else is a political circus. HOWEVER, leaking classified information is not political. It is illegal and needs to be treated as such FOR A CHANGE.


34 posted on 10/29/2019 4:52:31 PM PDT by NELSON111 (Congress: The Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog s<how. Theater for sheep. My politics determines my "hero")
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To: DrDude

Then, Shifty is engineering a mistrial and opening himself to charges of witness tampering.


35 posted on 10/29/2019 4:54:46 PM PDT by nonsporting (MAGA -- Make America Godly Again)
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To: Truth29

Just an sds style sit in complete with non negotiable demands

Only other congress critters can shut congress down


36 posted on 10/29/2019 4:56:43 PM PDT by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: Innovative

Coaching witnesses. I thought that was illegal, at least unethical. It’s a lynching.


37 posted on 10/29/2019 4:56:44 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

PLEASE REPEAT THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN.

WITNESS TAMPERING!!!!!!!


38 posted on 10/29/2019 4:58:29 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: grayboots
before Pelosi has set a tentative full-chamber vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry

That is a false statement, as that is not what her vote is about at all. It is to keep the inquisition operating as it currently is.

39 posted on 10/29/2019 5:00:06 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Innovative
I don't know if what Schiff is doing is illegal, but it is unethical under the American Bar Association's RPC Rule 3.4(f):

A lawyer shall not request a person other than a client to refrain from voluntarily giving relevant information to another party unless:

(1) the person is a relative or an employee or other agent of a client; and

(2) the lawyer reasonably believes that the person's interests will not be adversely affected by refraining from giving such information.

From what I understand, Shifty Schiff is a lawyer. Maybe some Republican on the hill can file an ethics complaint against Schiff with whatever Bar he belongs to.

40 posted on 10/29/2019 5:00:52 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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