The House Democrats are conducting the impeachment inquiry lawfully and intelligently. Just as a Grand Jury conducts investigations privately to gather evidence and determine if and what charges might be filed, the House Committees are sequestered to protect witnesses and to shield some from coordinating their testimonies. Republican strategy is ‘chanting talking-points,’ criticizing & attacking the House Democrat’s process of closed-door depositions, because pranks are all they’ve got! The House Republicans tried to censure House-chair Intel-Committee, Adam Schiff, on 10/21, but that stunt was rejected (218 – 185 vote); and 10/23 found 3 dozen or so House Repubs, looking like a fraternity reunion-prank, storming a secure hearing-room — where Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, was giving testimony– delaying the proceedings for 5 hours. Their pranks, “born of impotence”, are ineffectual. Adam Schiff advised colleagues on 10/16 that “committees anticipated taking witness-testimony in public when they don’t jeopardize investigative equities …. so that Congress and the American people can hear the testimony first-hand”.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Oct 27 2019
Opinion on how the House is handling the impeachment probe.
The House Democrats are conducting the impeachment inquiry lawfully and intelligently. Just as a Grand Jury conducts investigations privately to gather evidence and determine if and what charges might be filed, the House Committees are sequestered to protect witnesses and to shield some from coordinating their testimonies. Republican strategy is ‘chanting talking-points,’ criticizing & attacking the House Democrat’s process of closed-door depositions, because pranks are all they’ve got! The House Republicans tried to censure House-chair Intel-Committee, Adam Schiff, on 10/21, but that stunt was rejected (218 – 185 vote); and 10/23 found 3 dozen or so House Repubs, looking like a fraternity reunion-prank, storming a secure hearing-room — where Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, was giving testimony– delaying the proceedings for 5 hours. Their pranks, “born of impotence”, are ineffectual. Adam Schiff advised colleagues on 10/16 that “committees anticipated taking witness-testimony in public when they don’t jeopardize investigative equities …. so that Congress and the American people can hear the testimony first-hand”.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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