Discussion: Whitaker Doesn't Invoke Executive Privilege By House Committee Deadline

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Collins said it sent a” message to witnesses” that “if you make the time and effort to appear of your own accord, Democrats are going to subpoena you anyway.”

“Trust, but subpoena”

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This is about to get good. I can easily imagine a scenario where Whitaker refuses to respond to the subpoena and dares the House to have the cops arrest him. I can also imagine a scenario where Nadler obliges.

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Hand up everyone who thinks Whitaker is just going to ignore the subpoena and just not show up at all.

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“Because you have not provided any notification to the Committee regarding executive privilege—or, indeed, any communication in response to the January 22 letter—my understanding is that you will provide full and complete answers to these questions when they are asked at your hearing this Friday,” Nadler said.

“Whitaker, reached at a long-term care facility just outside Alexandria where he has been in a persistent catatonic state since January 22, did not return calls for comment.”

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Just because I like my Fridays interesting, I’m really hoping Whitaker just simply fails to show.

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$5 says Whitaker is a no-show.

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Okay, I’ve figured this out.

Mueller likes to bag them at the end of the week. So we’ll call these- FBI Fridays.

Note to self: have popcorn/snacks ready. DVR set to CNN and MSNBC.

Hoping for another ‘Stoney’ pre-dawn raid.

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I don’t see why he’d show up. What punishment is available if he doesn’t, and how many months (years) of lawyering and discussing on FOXS, CNN, etc are required for it to be executed?

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It feels like an attempt at a dominance move.

We will see how this one plays through.

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Political gamesmanship or raging incompetence? Ummmmm…
Yep. He spaced it.

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I just saw this a few minutes ago. I am not tying this to Whitaker, but to illustrate how things feel fluid. As if there are events behind the scene that put things in a pending status. Cummings remark doesn’t quite hang right working with what we know so far. It does if he is expecting those changes and waiting to see the results.

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Can Trump pardon someone doing jail time for contempt of Congress?

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“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
— Al Capone

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He’s gonna sweat like Nixon in bikram yoga.

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Heh. Watched it last night.

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I bet he doesn’t show. Not sure what Nadler would do. In the past I’d assume the Democrats would do nothing because Decorum™. Now, who the hell knows? Can he have him arrested?

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I think I may just start watching House committee hearings again.

Might be fun.

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The House can instruct the House Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest him after filing a contempt citation. It seems there’s a bit of disagreement about the disposition of a contempt filing where the target is an Executive Branch employee.

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Let us never forget that Nixon’s ACTUAL, CONFIRMED Attorney General was rampant in his obstruction to threats on his “boss.”

He even started up the “Plumbers” unit of Nixon’s White House, to plug leaks. This ultimately led to the break-in at the DNC’s Watergate headquarters, which Mitchell helped to cover-up.

On February 21, 1975, John N. Mitchell was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up, which he dubbed the “White House horrors.”

I doubt Whitaker wants to lose whatever career he may have left, let alone his freedom, by lying to Congress.

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