Well played, sir…
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly for GOP cockroaches…
Clever move. Comey is stalling his testimony. Either the GOP led committee allows public testimony or the subpoena is void after January 2, 2019. He now has leverage and the GOP either lets him testify publicly — where Comey will shred them — or they meekly crawl back under the rock under which they live.
Lemme have 5 bucks on “Meekly Crawl” to win.
Unless I am missing something, even if the Goopers get away with this hearing being closed, I don’t see how the Dems could be prevented from holding a second one in Jan. Perhaps all it needs is Comey to write to the Chair after the change of hands in the House to say, oh, yeah, and there was something else I meant to tell you. Or just that they add a few new questions for him.
I mean, how many times was HRC called back again and again and again?
Yeah, if they let him talk he’ll light them up like Strzok did. Not quite as badass but with plenty of sorrowing old-school patriotism. I’d give a lot to see Gowdy melting out of his chair again.
So is the committee going to have to explain what information could only be elicited in a closed-door hearing? That will be an interesting filing.
“…meekly crawl back under the rock…”
AND watch/listen to Comey’s testimony before the incoming Democratic committee chairs.
Wouldn’t their time be better spent interviewing Cohen or Corsi or Manafort or Papadopoulos…oh sorry…they’re trying to shed opaqueness on the investigation, not light.
Nunes can draft something explaining their great concern for the security of confidential information.
If nothing else, he should be able to run out the clock on the Republican House.
And sniping all the way. Nobody snipes better than a bitter Republican.
Didn’t tRump take away his clearance (or was it only threaten) so how could he speak of anything which would be confidential? And, his lawyer is correct, they would leak maliciously. The listing of examples was almost overkill.
Especially as Trump threatens to release top secret information involving national security if Dems don’t stop investigating him, which, by the way, is the lamest threat ever.
I thought that if he refuses it is contempt of congress
I looked it up on the Google machine They’re fucked if he refuses. It has no real teeth and would be tied up in the courts until the Dems take over (see Bold)
"Contempt of Congress is defined in statute, 2 U.S.C.A. § 192, enacted in 1938, which states that any person who is summoned before Congress who “willfully makes default, or who, having appeared, refuses to answer any question pertinent to the question under inquiry” shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a maximum $1,000 fine and 12 month imprisonment.
Before a Congressional witness may be convicted of contempt, it must be established that the matter under investigation is a subject which Congress has constitutional power to legislate.
Generally, the same Constitutional rights against self-incrimination that apply in a judicial setting apply when one is testifying before Congress"
Comey’s got the chops to hold the bastards off until January, I have no doubt. If the subpoena doesn’t get quashed, he could just decide to sit in contempt until the democratic house bails him out in January.
It’s a cookbook, Jim!
I like “scurry under the rock” like rats which is what they are.
The wrestler from Ohio is salivating over his last chance to get Comey.
A massive dose of gamma rays is also a great disinfectant. Nothing survives that dark magic.
And if they didn’t throw one at Erik Prince for his lying hissy fit, and they use one here, on Comey, they can just all cut their nuts off now.