Posted on 06/17/2018 6:53:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Sunday that there will be hell to pay including impeachment for top Justice Department officials if the agency fails this week to give Congress documents about an FBI informant used to spy on the Trump campaign.
We cant force the resignation, but we can hold in contempt, we can pass resolutions, we can impeach. I think were getting close to there, Nunes said of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures.
Nunes has battled Rosenstein for months over other documents related to the Russia investigation.
The Justice Department and FBI stalled for months to provide information about the Steele dossier as well as about a secret surveillance warrant taken out against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
The most recent standoff concerns Nunes request for documents related to a longtime FBI and CIA source who the bureau tasked to meet with three Trump campaign advisers, including Page.
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I think the point is that according to the Watergate 9-0 Supreme Court decision, there is no executive privilege in cases of impeachment. So if the House votes to impeach (simple majority), the House gets all the documents they have been requesting plus any additional ones discovered, so that they can make their case for the trial. Of course the Senate would likely not impeach, but the people would find out the facts, and red wave time. Surf's up!
Nope. It was politically unwise. If the cite for contempt or impeach that gives potus the opening he needs to replace Rosenstein
Pay closer attention
I’m guessing another strongly worded letter.
Multistep strategy, with indirection. Would take some time to make it happen, but...
Devious and clever.
Yes and no. Yes, Trump wants him gone and no he
won’t fire Rosenstein for the same reason he won’t fire
Mueller and end this nothingburger for good. There will
be massive blowback, it will feed the cause of the Demo
Congressional campaign, and it will preclude him from
going after the criminals who instigated this farce.
My current favorite Congressman and fellow Cal Poly
grad to bitch slap Arnold Stang. Nuke some popcorn!
I never knew bubble bath was sooooo available in the Old Italian West.
I’ll have to watch Back to the Future III now.
Drink more Qvaltine!
Thank you
Probably suring-up support and hoping the threat will be enough to get the documents. If the House Republicans move to impeach, the Democrats will be celebrating up to the point they find out who would be impeached. Just seeing the look on their faces at that moment would make impeaching Rosenstein worth it.
Good point.
But I don't see Paul Ryan on board wanting to impeach Rosenstein.
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Bingo.
A lot of election year emotions here.
A friend of mine on the GOP mailing lists has gotten four fundraising letters from Congressman Nunes in the last four months.
How convenient.
Does anyone go to jail for this?
No.
Do the Republicans use this to get themselves elected again this fall?
Yes.
I voted for Donald J. Trump to shake up the Republican Party, not to endorse it members in the House.
“Im guessing another strongly worded letter.”
Understandable answer, but maybe a bit more this time:
1) They get all documents, finally.
2) It becomes VERY EASY, politically, to axe whoever gets impeached.
I think that’s why the thought of impeachment actually does worry the Deep State.
You go Devin!
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