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 ...
The only “Republicans” questioning anything about our domestic enemies these days are anti-American never Trump Hussein Heads.
Ah because he wrote the script ?
If you are going to stage a Stalinist kangaroo court who better to preside than Commissar Schiff?
All three previous impeachment inquiries were under the auspices of the Judicial Committee.
The real question is why is the House Intelligence Committee (I’m giving them a break assuming there is some intelligence in it) running it and not the Judiciary Committee?
bttt
I would imagine it’s to keep it out of the public eye since it is a committee that is essentially “eyes only” and accessible to fewer people.
Oh, and nice try to shield Obama and Pantsuit from justice, Adam. It didn't work.
Geez
Nadler blew his chance.
If it were to be assigned to the Judiciary, that opportunity would be lost.
I seriously hope Republicans are recording these hearings.
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."
The book “The Plot against the president “ by Lee Smith answers this. I’m not done reading it but, the book brings clarity to a lot of things that didn’t make sense.
Remove his security clearance...
Because Schiff is the biggest tool in a shed full of tools?
Because every public hearing that Fatboy Nadler has held has turned into a sh*tshow for the Dems.
That, and Lil’ Schitt is the one who wrote this script, cast the actors and called in the costume dept.
Because Democrats can have whatever they want.
And Republicans can never have anything they want.
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