Cheney Reiterates Jan. 6 Panel’s Threat Of Criminal Contempt For Uncooperative Trump Administration Witnesses | Talking Points Memo

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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee, on Tuesday reiterated that the panel is prepared to advance criminal contempt charges against those who refuse to comply with its subpoenas.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1390617
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Seems to me Thompson, Schiff, Cheney, and Kinzinger are all sending really really concrete and consistent messages to those about-to-be-in-contempt indictees-in-waiting.

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Words Words Words. Meaningless.

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Well, I’ll be, Liz isn’t mincing words. Among some of the very, very few Repubs stepping up to speak the truth, she may be a candidate for the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Time will tell, now we need to see ACTION following the words.

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“Though the Select Committee welcomes good-faith engagement with witnesses seeking to cooperate with our investigation, we will not allow any witness to defy a lawful subpoena or attempt to run out the clock, and we will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of Congress referral,” the committee chairs wrote.

Damn when a turncoat has your playbook, whatcha gonna do now Trumpers?

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Huh?? Would you rather she didn’t speak out, or that not speaking out is the same as her speaking out, i.e. meaningless?

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Words Words Words
I’m so sick of words
I get words all day through
First from him, now from you
Is that all you blighters can do

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What are words for
When no one listens anymore
What are words for
when no one listens
there’s no use talking at all

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Words Words Words. Meaningless.

We’ll know soon enough. Not “meaningless” but enough for now. Their turn.

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It’s not time to act yet. Patience, grasshopper.

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Word!

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Sinema?

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It sounds like you’ve been walking in L.A. recently.

(Or, as one of my good friends used to say, “walking in a lake.”)

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It sounds like the J6C isn’t a fan of Missing Persons.

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A ritualistic display purely for show.

See: Liz Cheney

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Nobody’s ever accused them of being a bunch of Bozzios.

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Yeah, but I don’t know where I’m going.

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OOOHHHH!!! Not CONTEMPT!!

“YOU, SIR, ARE CONTEMPTABLE!!!”

BFD. They’ve been in contempt since 2016. I suppose there is an order to things, but unless/until this is enforced with penalties such as jail time, don’t expect anyone to beat a path to your conference room.

That said, I hope they do begin putting some teeth behind their idle threats, beginning with Bannon.

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Can always count on you to Terry the thread.

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