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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAdam Schiff Lays Out His Colleagues' Plan to Oust Robert Mueller
By Jeremy Stahl at Slate
http://amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/adam-schiff-lays-out-his-colleagues-plan-to-oust-robert-mueller.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru&__twitter_impression=true
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Jeremy Stahl: Did you read the Politico report Trumps Russia Strategy: Bash Mueller to Beat Impeachment?
Adam Schiff: No, I havent read that. Just judging from the headline, Im not at all surprised if thats the White House strategy. And they have plenty of allies in Congress that are helping them in that strategy. From the very beginning of our investigation, they decided that the best way to protect the president was by putting the government on trial. Its a tactic I saw when I was a prosecutor. If the evidence is increasingly incriminating to the defendant, you put the government on trial.
So they began with a conspiracy theory about unmasking, that was part of the Chairman [Devin Nunes] midnight run. When that didnt pan out, then they turned to [an alleged] conspiracy within the FBI involving Carter Page, and when that didnt pan out they turned to the next phase, which is attacking the initiation of the investigation. Right now, theyre in the process of picking an endless series of fights with Rod Rosenstein, in the hope that if they can keep asking for things until they get to something Rod Rosenstein cant turn over to the Congress, because it would interfere with the investigation, then it would give the president a pretext to fire him and replace him with someone pliable who will do the presidents will. The president is tweeting his attacks on Mueller, and I think its a two-pronged strategy: One that tries to lay the predicate to fire Muellers boss as a way of putting someone in who can kneecap the investigation privately outside of the public view by telling Mueller, You cant look into certain things. But if all else fails, then so discrediting the investigators that no matter what they produce, they can cast doubt on it.
Youre basically saying that your colleagues are hoping to force Rosensteins hand to either give away evidence that will interfere with the investigation and make public that evidence, or refuse them in a way that would lead them to claim that Rosenstein should be impeached.
Without a question. Most recently they asked for the Comey memos, and they were quite indignant in not getting the Comey memos. What they didnt reveal, of course, is that we had already had access to the Comey memos. I had already read the Comey memos, and the chairman already had the opportunity to read the memos. Now, whether he took the opportunity or notthe chairman seems to ask for a lot of things and demand them and then not read thembut we already had access, so we knew that the Comey memos were completely consistent with the director and what he was saying in his testimony.
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Adam Schiff is absolutely correct and the MSM needs to turn up the volume on this one!
rockfordfile
(8,700 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Among many events: money laundering, collusion with an enemy nation to attack other Americans (Democrats), obstruction of justice, and (yikes) that robbery of Trump's doctor's office. That alone was Watergate level, impeachable treachery.
world wide wally
(21,739 posts)nuclear deal.
They love destroying people to get what they want.
I haven't heard a word about "bearing false witness" from any Eveangelicals so I guess they deleted that one too.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,562 posts)From the left's POV, that is. If all else fails, I put NOTHING past the GOP, including just saying the equivalent of "Yeah, he's guilty. Guilty as hell, but we're not going to do anything, and we're not going to let you do anything. And you know why? Fuck you, that's why."