Is it me or is there the smell of BENGHAZI!!! in the air?
Why not just send them right to the gulag?
The outcome is predetermined, just as it was the last time Stalin was in charge.
Claiming that there are CIA officers that must be interviewed will make it a lot easier to claim that this investigation must be shut down too, to avoid national security issues.
Barr’s job is to hold the line in the Senate in an impeachment vote. Provide a minimum of 34 Senators a plausible rationale for voting to acquit in the face of all evidence of malfeasance and criminality to the contrary.
Do these DOJ folks have the proper clearances to question CIA officers?
I can’t wait for that Fat Fucks time under the interrogation lamp.
Time to Impeach
And Comrade Lysenko declares that it is not possible that the New Socialist Man created Global Climate Change and none of our aparatchiks will be allowed to go before the Sectarian Menshevik House Committees and say that Climate Change even exists.
Fn- I have no idea what Mensheviks are. I do remember the Orthodox Commies in college tossing that like a real backhanded insult during the Political Union meetings I did attend before deciding I was going to prioritize other things in my spare time. Having been confined in an all male school from 7-12 grades before coming to college on the mainland.
Schiff needs to get ahead of this ASAP.
He needs a public hearing with intellgence analysts and officials explaining all the evidence that Russia was helping Trump. And he needs to do it in a way that does not allow the witnesses to be harassed by GOPer — only committee counsel should be allowed to ask question. Use the “the counsel knows what questions not to ask to avoid any risk of revealing sources and methods” as a reason for this.
If the CIA people are smart, they’ll just stonewall DoJ. “I’m sorry, but I’m not permitted to reveal that kind of information.” What’s DoJ going to do about that - try to force the CIA to reveal highly classified material? That would be quite a spectacle.
Or…
“I have nothing to hide, nor have I committed any crimes, but nevertheless I choose to exercise my Constitutionally guaranteed right to invoke the 5th Amendment and decline to answer any questions.”
So you get fired. The book royalties alone will make up for any future wage losses.
The purge begins.
Barr’s frustrated by his inability to find anything. He’ll cook something up; then they’ll just fire those guys and smear their reputations.
an impeachment inquiry for Barr should be begun – for practical reasons.
Impeaching Barr makes it possible for the House to get answers to questions that they would otherwise not be eligible to get. People like Durham should be required to testify regarding how this investigation was initiated – and all records concerning the investigation should be subpoenaed as well.
Prolly have to break out the old inherent contempt powers for this one, tho…
That’s presuming Schiff or any other Democrat actually possesses an animating desire to hold Trump accountable for his crimes. The evidence for this whithers and atrophies every day that goes by.
Not until Barr starts having the Justice investigators track down Facebook posters for their intel. But that maybe right after they interview all the FOX host’s and their guests that have commented on the Steel dossier.
I am unaware of any such activity or operation, nor would I be disposed to discuss such an operation if it did in fact exist.
Investigate the investigators of the original investigation.
At some point this is going to morph into something so truly bizarre and byzantine the public is going to get fed up, regardless their party affiliation or sentiments on the issues.
I know that is a political term. But back in the pre WW2 Puerto Rico in which my father and aunts and uncles all grew up, Saturday was the day of purgation. Big Sauce Spoonfulls of Aceite de Higado de Bacalao (Cod Liver Oil) for all the kids, so that your intestines were purged of the diseases they all feared back then, in the pre-meat diet when everyone ate Viandas (tubers like Yuca, Yautia, Nyame, all boiled) and the main protein source was the beans served with rice most days, and the cod fish on fridays. I have to run to work now, but the colloquial slang for the purge in PR Spanish will come to me probably on the Subway.
Wait a minute which fat fuck are we talking about? Barr may be AG now, but Pompeo was head of the CIA after Trump’s coronation. Why didn’t that fat fuck look into what his CIA officers did during 2015-2016?