just who does this woman think she is? when a US SENATOR asks a question, answer it, truthfully.//you bloody fool!
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O/T but in something of the same flailing vein… there’s Jacob Wohl…
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Yet theres evidence that counters her defense…
Murphy has been under fire from House Democrats since she told a congressional oversight hearing in April 2018 that the decision to stop the FBI from moving its headquarters came solely from the bureau with no presidential involvement.
According to an inspector general report on Murphy’s comments released in August 2018, it stated that Murphy and other GSA officials had multiple meetings with Trump about the FBI headquarters. Internal GSA emails disclosed by House Democrats in October 2018 revealed agency officials discussing “the President’s instructions,” “direction from WH” and “what was decided in the meeting with POTUS” in January 2018.[11]
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The House Appropriations Committee should make a referral of GSA Administrator Emily Murphy to the Department of Justice for investigation of possible corruption and undue/illegal interference by the “president” in this matter.
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O/T but in something of the same flailing vein… there’s Jacob Wohl…
In the documentary, Alexander compares Wohl to both Batman and Iron Man. But now, he’s backing away fast, saying Wohl may be a “bad actor.”
Damn, I heard Jack “The Fly” Burkman call Jacob Wohl a genius like Mozart.
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Do you remember the time …
yeah … back then …
When we used to laugh at this shit ? ? …
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Yes, and a minor Republican apparatchik before that.
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“It’s longstanding executive branch practice and privilege not to discuss conversations between the President, his advisers, heads of agencies and senior White House advisers,” she said. “So I’m going to respectfully decline to answer that question.”
Murphy wasn’t asserting executive privilege during her testimony before the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, she clarified. That option belongs to Trump, not her.
“So you’re asserting a privilege that the President hasn’t?” Chairman Mike Quigley (D-IL) asked.
“I am not asserting a privilege, I’m declining to answer,” Murphy replied.
this timeline
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It won’t be long before Murphy is (laboriously) hoisted on her own petard, another example of ETTD.
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As a disputes lawyer, this crap of refusing to answer while not asserting a privilege really pisses me off. Congress has oversight authority under the Constitution and witnesses can’t negate that authority by refusing to answer legitimate questions just because they don’t want to do so or because the Executive is trying to stonewall. Plus, the executive privilege is weak anyway.
It’s time Congress subpoenas her, goes to court to enforce the subpoena, and then holds her in contempt of Congress if she continues to refuse to answer.
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I take it that she plans to retire in 2020.
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She was grazed in St. Louis?
Not surprised.
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or “greased” maybe ?
These fat jokes are in bad taste and below us. You beat me to that one, dammit.
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House Appropriations Committee subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, so they’re Representatives. So she’s pissing on the people who control the purse strings.
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I was really commenting, as I often do out here, on lack of copy-editing.
Sure I was.
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Well she went to one hell of a private Catholic girls school, in one of the wealthiest suburbs in St. Louis County, and because I’m from St. Louis I can tell a lot about her by which high school she attended.
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I believe this is a preview of a lot of upcoming testimony from everyone who can claim the title “adviser” in the WH - past and present. It is lawyerly bullshit at its finest.
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