Republicans are able to attend the hearings. They are free to release to the public anything that isn't classified. They aren't releasing anything because it is all damning to Trump. So they cry about the hearing system they themselves put in place.
And the hits just keep coming. Say what you want about Bolton, and I disagree with his world view, but he was fired for doing his job. Lawyers for former Trump advisor John Bolton reportedly in contact with impeachment probe panels Lawyers for former national security advisor John Bolton have been in touch with officials working on House committees about possibly testifying in the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, a person close to Bolton told NBC News on Friday. The news comes more than a week after the White House’s former top Europe expert, Fiona Hill, reportedly testified to Congress that Bolton was so disturbed by efforts to get Ukraine to investigate Trump’s political opponents that he called it a “drug deal.” Hill said that Bolton told her he did not want to be part of that push, which involved White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, according to reports of her testimony. Hill also reportedly testified that Bolton had called Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani a “hand grenade.” Giuliani has been at the head of a charge to have Ukraine launch investigations that could benefit Trump politically ahead of his 2020 reelection effort. The Washington Post reported Thursday that White House trade representative Robert Lighthizer in August withdrew a recommendation to restore some of Ukraine’s trade privileges after Bolton “warned him that President Trump probably would oppose any action that benefited the government in Kyiv.” [more at the link]
Here's what Republican Trey Gowdy who ran the Benghazi hearings thought of private hearings. "The private ones always produce better results" See video starting at 4:10.
It's a strange fact of law and politics, advocacy does not require consistency. A lawyer or politician can make a definitive statement one day and can be paid to make the completely opposite position the next. And somehow that's completely honorable and expected.
I am sensing a trend. The Republicans tend to lose quite a few court cases, reigning in their oversteps. You just hate to see that.
...if he thinks this is true... ...then what the hell did he go through with the Benghazi "hearings" for?
1) Many of the Benghazi "hearings" were behind closed doors 2) The public ones are designed for a purpose. They wanted to damage Clinton.
...okay. ...my point remains, seeing as how Trey Gowdy and his Republican compatriots painted the whole Benghazi episode as national tragedy attributed to ONE individual's negligence and incompetence... ...(see a recurring pattern, here?)... ...that as horrific as the outcome of the national mismanagement of that situation was, there was no evidence of malicious or self-serving behavior or intent by the State Department under Hillary Clinton... ...(and this is where the pattern breaks, by the way)... ...and Gowdy and others, with closed door meetings and comprehensive information available that confirmed those aforementioned things, still made that a circus with no ringleader at the end of the day. ...the clowns, as always, were a nice touch, though... (...I get what you're saying, by the way...not attacking you...gotta protect those posting privileges I hold so dear...)
You can attack me with out worry that I would take action against you. But yes, I recognize what the Benghazi hearings were. Pretty shameful really.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/28/po...cedure-vote/index.html?r=https://www.cnn.com/ What will the republicans shift to now that they can’t complain about the process?
