Posted on 02/16/2018 12:18:27 PM PST by Kaslin
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said that former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon will likely be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with them.
He has refused to answer several questions about the investigation into Russian collusion, Schiff said.
"I think it's likely that he will face a contempt citation," Schiff said Thursday at a Council on Foreign Relations event.
Instead of offering information, Bannon has been citing executive privilege on behalf of President Trump.
“The only questions he would answer were questions that had been scripted, literally scripted for him by the White House,” Schiff said. “Whenever we sought to probe anything beyond the four corners of the specific wording of the question, he refused to answer. That’s not how executive privilege works.”
The "stonewalling," Schiff said, will only go so far.
Bannon has also been meeting with special counsel Robert Mueller over the past week.
Schiff and other Democrats on the Intelligence Committee are currently trying to get their rebuttal to the Republican FISA memo declassified. The Republican-authored document released a couple weeks ago is four pages long and explains how the FBI abused FISA rules to spy on members of the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. The Democrats allege that the memo omits key context intended to undermine the intelligence agency. Their rebuttal is six pages longer and includes those important details, they explain.
Yet, after a review, Trump decided not to release it. He cited national security concerns and wants them to make some revisions and redactions.
Schiff said no revisions will be made, but he's confident they can reach a compromise.
oh, like Eric Holder?
Well, I hold most of Congress in contempt every day........
For what? exercising Executive Privilege? If it has anything to do with post election, Trump has a right to Executive Privilege. Oh, and where is shift-for-brains prof that Trump colluded with the Russians? Is there no accountability in DC? (Yes, that was rhetorical)
He’ll be right up there with numerous ex-presidents and other highly paid officials, then. Kind of a badge of honor, ‘contempt.’
I agree...its a badge of honor for Bannon.
Holder and Lerner were held in contempt of Congress if I’m not mistaken. Much good that did.
Turn the two fs upside, then you got it right
bump
Bannon can’t assert privilege on his own. But he has all the 5th Amendment protections. He may have waved them by answering some questions?
Sounds like Eric Holder and Hillary
Not after the lame-azzed “indictment” that Mueller announced against 13 low level Russian trolls.
Contempt of congress?
Join about another 300 million of us
That’s what I meant. lol
Congress should be held in contempt for the way they go about the People’s business. Somebody needs to get the goods on Schiff. I think there are a lot of skeletons in his closet.
I think it has already been proven that Schiff is an idiot extraordinaire
I figured you did.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Get tough with the tough guy.
Adam, why don’t you just kick a hornets’ nest or something?
Whatever happens afterwards, don’t whine. Nobody cares.
Bannon was simply protecting the president and the country from the likes of Schiffty. Schiffty just wants to indict anyone who doesn’t tell him what he wants to hear.
Eric Holder was sighted with contempt of Congress when he was the A. G. And nothing legally happened to him. Hell, he’s thinking of running for the WH. Just imagine, another lying black thug in the WH.
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