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Energy Secretary Rick Perry has been subpoenaed as part of the House’s ongoing impeachment inquiry, the committees pursuing the inquiry announced Thursday.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1255249
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry has been subpoenaed as part of the House’s ongoing impeachment inquiry, the committees pursuing the inquiry announced Thursday.

In a letter to Perry, the House committees on Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight outlined documents the secretary is required to turn over. Failure to do so, the committees warned, would constitute evidence of obstruction of the inquiry.

By now it’s just an impersonal form letter.

I do hope Perry isn’t offended.

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Perry - "I won’t comply with this unreasonable order for two reasons:

  1. Trump told me not to
  2. …I…uh…"
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Who does Rick’s hair and glasses?

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To testify or not to testify…should NOT even be a question for Perry to ask himself if he has one patriotic bone in his body and a smidgen of ‘a brain’ hiding in his dancing with the thugs skull!

Trump already threw him under the bus…

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In other news, taking a page from North Carolina, Trump announced today that, due to the extreme amount of foreign interference with the 2020 election, it is no longer possible to guarantee a free and fair election.

Therefore, the 2020 election is hereby cancelled, and the next election will be held in 2024.

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  1. Who is going to make me.
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Not at all surprised, other than it took this long, once his involvement was spotlighted.

It’s amazing what a good spotlight will do to cockroaches.

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  • John N. Mitchell – former United States Attorney General and director of Nixon’s 1968 and 1972 election campaigns; faced a maximum of 30 years in prison and $42,000 in fines; on February 21, 1975, Mitchell was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison, which was later reduced to one to four years; Mitchell actually served 19 months.
  • H. R. Haldeman – White House chief of staff, considered the second most powerful man in the government during Nixon’s first term; faced a maximum of 25 years in prison and $16,000 in fines; in 1975, he was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice and received an 18-month prison sentence.
  • John Ehrlichman – former assistant to Nixon in charge of domestic affairs; faced a maximum of 25 years in prison and $40,000 in fines. Ehrlichman was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury and other charges; he served 18 months in prison.
  • Charles Colson – former White House counsel specializing in political affairs; plead nolo contendere on June 3, 1974 to one charge of obstruction of justice, having persuaded prosecution to change the charge from one of which he believed himself innocent to another of which he believed himself guilty, in order to testify freely;[6] he was sentenced to 1 to 3 years of prison and fined $5,000; Colson served seven months.
  • Gordon C. Strachan – White House aide to Haldeman; faced a maximum of 15 years in prison and $20,000 in fines. Charges against him were dropped before trial.
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Wasn’t Rick Perry also palling around with Taras & Bulba (or whatever the Ukrainians mafiosi are called)?

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And?

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“Oops.”

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I wonder when someone will issue a “Reverse Bingo” card where the winner will have the card with the least spaces filled with administration curs who DID NOT get a subpoena?

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and people will be going to jail.

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Sorry. Out of stock.

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Oldies but goodies.

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Perry: So there was this meeting with Trump, Pence and uh a third guy… let me see… oh it was me.

Perry makes The Coach on Cheers look like Einstein.

Edit: Also recall that Texas Gov. Perry signed the warrant for the execution for a 99.9% likely innocent man, Cameron Willingham

Karma is a bitch, Rick.

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We will see.

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Fetch the comfy chair!

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