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global1

(26,507 posts) Mon Mar 27, 2017, 11:12 AM Mar 2017

All These Trump People Volunteering To Go Before The Intelligence Committee To Testify..... [View all]

is problematic unless they testify under oath. Otherwise we'll just hear leaks of them lying and further obscuring the collusion.

They must testify in an open hearing and under oath.

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All These Trump People Volunteering To Go Before The Intelligence Committee To Testify..... [View all] global1 Mar 2017 OP

Is that right, they won't be under oath? still_one Mar 2017 #1

Beating the subpoena, too. yallerdawg Mar 2017 #2

under oath or not, i don't think these people have a problem lying. spanone Mar 2017 #3

If They Lie Under Oath.... global1 Mar 2017 #4

I would insist they talk under oath or send them on their way. Demsrule86 Mar 2017 #5

A Dem on CNN Sculpin Beauregard Mar 2017 #6

Does that apply to a joint executive session appearance by the President and Vice President? gratuitous Mar 2017 #9

But Trump is a congenital liar....it is in his DNA. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2017 #14

Lying to a congressional committee *is* a felony in its own right, even if one isn't under oath.. Princess Turandot Mar 2017 #7

They have a strategy, to blame Obama for a deep state coup against trump. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #8

Yeah- they need to dump Nunes and get an independent investigator bettyellen Mar 2017 #10

Because of course it's Obamas fault that Obama was so competent at his job Volaris Mar 2017 #13

the whole thing smells really funny to me. mopinko Mar 2017 #11

Under Oath is just theatrics OliverQ Mar 2017 #12

Reminds me of co-workers in the wrong who want to be 1st in line to the boss' office rainbow4321 Mar 2017 #15