Posted on 11/02/2019 3:48:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Under normal circumstances, the House Intelligence Committee would not have jurisdiction over the string of witnesses who have filed into the impeachment proceedings in the Capitol basement or the subject matter they are talking about.
None of the material is classified, and those who have appeared before the panel are mostly diplomats whose testimony about a July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would more suitably be scrutinized by the House Foreign Affairs Committee or the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Both the Foreign Affairs and Oversight panels have been invited to participate in the closed-door meetings, but it is Schiff and the Intelligence Committee staff Democrats who run the proceedings and who will write the final report that will determine whether the House votes on articles of impeachment.
Republicans say the mismatch raises questions about how Democrats are proceeding with the impeachment process and why Schiff, and Intelligence, was chosen to run it.
“There is absolutely nothing whatsoever in the whistleblower complaint that has any kind of intelligence component at all,” a top GOP aide told the Washington Examiner. “A presidential phone call with a foreign leader is not an intelligence matter.”
The whistleblower complaint shifted the impeachment proceedings to the control of Schiff and away from the Judiciary Committee and Chairman Jerry Nadler who had declared he was running impeachment proceedings without the blessing of Pelosi.
While the Judiciary Committee has traditionally handled the impeachment process and has held those hearings in public, Nadler had run afoul of Pelosi over his handling of the investigation and his decision to hold a series of highly partisan public hearings that were criticized by both parties.
Republicans believe Democratic leaders were looking for a way to transfer control to Schiff...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Pelosi: “We’re gonna need to find someone corrupt, biased, immoral, insincere,dishonest and totally without scruples or inhibition.”
Schiff: (running up to her out of breath) “You called?”
Pelosi: “Gotta love Central Casting.”
FOTFLOL You nailed it.
Maybe Pelosi wants Schiff to fail. Trump is sure raising tons of money on this fiasco.
Because Schiff is a bloodline rockefeller agent tasked to deal with Trump.
One reason? Schiff’s district is Hollywood, the entertainment industry’s big whigs; the mindless, autocratic, virtue signally celebrities trying to tell us what to do.
In other words, his seat is safe. The toadies aren’t going to vote him out anytime soon.
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