Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

The president wrote that the investigation into his alleged abuse of power is "intended to take away the Power of the People, their V**E, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!"

Most of the Impeachment process will be "secret." You and I will get sound bites, carefully constructed to lead us in how we are expected to v**e in 2020.

The Decision by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hand off the impeachment inquiry to the Intelligence Committee means key parts of the inquiry will be kept secret. It is also HIGHLY IRREGULAR! Closed hearings are customary for the Intelligence Committee, which often handles classified and sensitive information related to national security. But impeachment proceedings are typically conducted in public and, in all of modern history, have been handled by the House Judiciary Committee, not the secretive intelligence panel.

The House Intelligence Committee, led by Chairman Adam Schiff, is scheduled on Friday to interview Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael K. Atkinson.

Atkinson is one of the most important witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. He conducted the initial review into a whistleblower allegation that President Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate corruption allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden and that the White House attempted to conceal records of the July 25 call.


But the public won’t get to see Atkinson testify because the Intelligence Committee will hold Friday’s hearing behind closed doors. “This hearing is critical to establish additional details, leads, and evidence,” Schiff told fellow Democrats last week.

Schiff is also planning to close a hearing with the whistleblower, if he decides to testify, and he is considering additional, closed-door hearings and depositions of witnesses called to talk to the panel about matters related to the impeachment inquiry.

House Republicans say Democrats are ignoring precedent in order to shape the outcome of the inquiry.
“What they are doing is really a kangaroo court,” Rep. Andy Biggs, chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told the Washington Examiner. “They are keeping this under wraps, while at the same
time they are trying to stir up public attention to it. They don’t want to take it through a normal process.”

The House normally v**es to approve an impeachment inquiry. In this instance, Pelosi skipped the v**e and simply declared one.

She also decided to hand off the impeachment inquiry to Schiff, in part because his committee has jurisdiction over the Intelligence Community, where the whistleblower, according to media reports, is employed as a CIA agent.

Pelosi’s move also diverts the inquiry from the judiciary panel, where Chairman Jerry Nadler had for weeks been conducting “impeachment proceedings,” unsanctioned by Pelosi, that the party acknowledged had devolved into embarrassing political theater.

“The path forward will be centered in the Intelligence Committee led by Chairman Adam Schiff," Pelosi told Democrats Friday.

We all know how fair and impartial Schiff will be from his reading of the telephone transcript on the House floor last week!

Tug484

I was going to read a NY Times piece about Trump had disqualified himself from 2020 e******n.
Then it started out he had Biden investigated before the e******n.
No, he wants to know what went in in '16.
I'm so sick damn lies!

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

The House Democrats have ZERO integrity! In the past, I would bend over backward to understand their point of view. I would find merit in their decisions. But it is now clear, and should also be clear to the most ardent Never Trump h**er.....the President is being RAILROADED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS!!!!

I too am tired of All their lies and attempt to manipulate the t***h!!!!!!

PeterS

This is a c**p? So you are saying that the Republican Senate is going to v**e to impeach? Good, I would rather put up with Pence for a year than Donald...

Tug484

I am too.
It makes me so angry that they lie and lie when the t***h is obvious.
They still have their blind followers.
I really like to hear both sides of an argument if it's not shouting over each other.

Gatsby

The House will never v**e to impeach President Trump!

Impeachment means a TRIAL, where the defendant has RIGHTS.

Impeachment cannot be conducted in SECRET, it is not a FISA Court.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

A c**p? You do realize that Pence becomes President if Trump resigns or is removed...........................so................what's the point of such a c**p? Oh, I see, you think Pence is in on it. Brilliant!

Mike Easterday

All Democrats should be facing the charge of High Treason! Then they could be hung .

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

Pelosi becomes vice president.....she will undermine any actions she thinks are hold overs from President Trump. She will promote the Socialist agenda:


“Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of ‘separation of church and state’ …

Control schools. Use them as t***smission belts for socialism and current C*******t propaganda …

Soften curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put party line in textbooks … Control student newspapers …”

Infiltrate churches and replace revealed religion with ‘social’ religion (ie. ‘social justice,’ ‘liberation theology’) …

Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a ‘religious crutch’ …

Discredit American culture …

Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and divorce …

Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as ‘normal, natural, healthy’.”

And we will return to wringing our hands and bowing to the demands of every nation on earth.

ENOUGH REASON FOR YOU?

Tug484

They're trying to stop the DOJ from uncovering their corruption.
That's it in a nutshell.

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

I want to hear and see Watnick, Morell and Gordon. The whistleblowers or three stooges as I call them.

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

Well Pence is or was a g*******t and had a PAC. He might surprise though and just be a staid DJT.