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Rep. Ratcliffe Explains Why One Transcript Is Missing From the Impeachment Trial [Schiff withheld exculpatory evidence]
Townhall.com ^ | January 22, 2020 | Bronson Stocking

Posted on 01/26/2020 2:15:42 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/26/2020 2:15:42 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Why has Adam Schiff not been expelled from Congress ?

After this coup-attempt is finally put-to-bed, Schiff, the “ whistleblower “, and the Bidens need to be hauled before a congressional investigative committee, and thoroughly interrogated.


2 posted on 01/26/2020 2:22:23 PM PST by BrexitBen
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To: Kaslin

Why can’t the Senators resolve that ALL the evidence and testimony collected by the Dems be provided to them immediately, including this transcript in particular?
Atkinson’s testimony surely will come up during the “Questions” phase. Hope the Defense brings it up too.


3 posted on 01/26/2020 2:22:44 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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The communists hiding exculpatory evidence...

Next your going to tell me that the Easter bunny isn't real...

4 posted on 01/26/2020 2:23:48 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Chewbarkah

Because the whole Democratic case is a farce.


5 posted on 01/26/2020 2:25:10 PM PST by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold)
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To: Kaslin
I knew they are liars, but are they really this stupid? Their obstruction can be hidden?

Well, it has worked before...

6 posted on 01/26/2020 2:27:11 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Chewbarkah

we can possibly look forward to a two step procedure:

1. pass a motion to request, by a date certain in the very near future, all evidence from the house investigations, including any and all exculpatory evidence; and

2. when the date comes, but the missing evidence is not provided, pass a motion to dismiss for lack of complete (that is, including any and all exculpatory) evidence.

an observation is that following this procedure involves calling no new witnesses (lindsey gets a reprieve).


7 posted on 01/26/2020 2:35:22 PM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: BrexitBen

Why has Adam Schiff not been expelled from Congress ?


For the same reason President Donald J Trump has been impeached. The democrats control the House of Representatives. Even if they didn’t, it takes a 2/3rds majority to vote to expel a member. The majority of the House believes Schiff is right and that we, the people are wrong.


8 posted on 01/26/2020 2:36:13 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Kaslin
This is the hill where the GOP Senators must make their stand in these impeachment proceedings.

1. If Adam Schiff refuses to turn over every page of every transcript of his secret House committee proceedings to the Senate and to the President's legal team, then President Trump should be acquitted on principle and the Senate should make a very public statement that the entire impeachment was a case of prosecutorial abuse.

2. The House managers should not be permitted to call a single witness who has not already testified before one the House committees involved in the impeachment.

9 posted on 01/26/2020 2:41:29 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: BrexitBen

Schiff, the “ whistleblower “, and the Bidens need to be hauled before a congressional investigative committee, and thoroughly interrogated.

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Never going to happen.

The GOP hasn’t done a damn thing to support Trump so there’s no reason to expect that they will ever investigate this outrageous travesty.


10 posted on 01/26/2020 2:41:47 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Kaslin

Has the Trump legal team mentioned this?


11 posted on 01/26/2020 2:44:49 PM PST by samtheman (I hope someone close to Trump is reading FR every day.)
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To: SteveH

Part 2 of this should be vote to acquit, not vote to dismiss. The reason is, a dismissal would mean the house can bring it up again in the future, and keep on impeaching. With an acquittal they can’t.


12 posted on 01/26/2020 2:48:42 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: SteveH

we can possibly look forward to a two step procedure

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The only steps the Republicans in the senate will be taking are steps backwards.


13 posted on 01/26/2020 2:49:21 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Kaslin

Bookmark


14 posted on 01/26/2020 2:50:52 PM PST by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

You said it.


15 posted on 01/26/2020 2:56:16 PM PST by Kaslin
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the whistleblower filed a complaint with the inspector general ... made representations in writing and verbally that weren’t true and correct....

Then there exists hard copy evidence of the w’blowers perjury and a federal crime was committed. Did Adamn S’hitt suborn perjury?

Do I hear the sound of bagpipes?


16 posted on 01/26/2020 3:02:42 PM PST by Ceebass (The only thing Orwell got wrong was the date)
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To: Kaslin

Why can’t the President declassify?


17 posted on 01/26/2020 3:03:32 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: Kaslin

It’d be something if Schiff ends up getting some jail time after all this is said and done. Schiff and maybe a few other coup conspirators serving time might make them think twice before trying these stunts again.


18 posted on 01/26/2020 3:12:10 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: samtheman
Now, as a slight shift in gears, I want to touch on one last point before I yield to one of my colleagues, and that relates to the whistleblower--the whistleblower, whom we haven't heard that much about--who started all of this. We know from a letter that the inspector general of the intelligence community sent that he thought the whistleblower had political bias. We don't know exactly what the political bias was because the inspector general testified in the House committee in an executive session, and that transcript is still secret. It wasn't transmitted up to the House Judiciary Committee. We haven't seen it. We don't know what is in it. We don't know what he was asked and what he revealed about the whistleblower.

Now, you would think that before going forward with an impeachment proceeding against the President of the United States, that you would want to find out something about the complaint that had started this, because motivations, bias, reasons for wanting to bring this complaint could be relevant. But there wasn't any inquiry into that.

Recent reports, public reports suggest that, potentially, the whistleblower was an intelligence community staffer who worked with then-Vice President Biden on Ukraine matters, which, if true, would suggest an even greater reason for wanting to know about potential bias or motive for the whistleblower.

Saturday, January 25, 2020 - President's Counsel
19 posted on 01/26/2020 3:12:24 PM PST by Cboldt
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Yup. Caught red handed in a planned coup conspiracy. Lock ‘em up!


20 posted on 01/26/2020 3:14:01 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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