Has anyone noticed the contrast between Democratic led investigations and GOP led investigations? [View all]

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/07/theres-quite-contrast-between.html

The big difference is presentation of documented evidence.

I watched about an hour and a half of the recent hearings conducted by the House into the fantasy issue of FBI "weaponization." Typical of several of the members of Congress who were engaged in the questioning, there was no reference to any evidence, only the citation of a conspiracy theory or a speculative comment with clear, political overtones. Questions, in fact, are rare. Most Republicans make assertions first, then ask pointed questions based on their assertion. There's almost never a reference to any documents sitting in front of the committee or witnesses, no turning of pages, no questions about specifics in any kind of sequence of events.

In the segments of the hearings that I watched, I give FBI Director Christopher Wray an "A" in the manner in which he handled the questioning. He deflected almost every assertion by either asking for documentation of the assertion as a fact, or requested that the questioner present evidence to support their assertion before agreeing to answer their question. In once instance, he silenced Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz by destroying his assertion that "the public approval of the FBI's job performance is at an all time low," by asking to see what data supported that claim, and then pointed out that applications from Floridians who want to become FBI agents is at an all time high.

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Along with millions of Americans, I watched vritually every public hearing Congress held during its two impeachments of Trump. One of the characteristics of Democrats on the committees, along with at least two Republicans who participated, was their continuous referral to documented evidence. I'd be curious to find out exactly how much time was spent during the hearings on references to the page number, and specific headings of documents in the questioning. There were long periods of silence as both those who were testifying and those who were questioning read from documents in front of them. Evidence characterized the televised hearings.