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Saturday, December 7, 2019

Pelosi again exposes impeachment as just a cynical political show

Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped out from behind the curtain Thursday to order up articles of impeachment against President Trump — once again exposing the official process as merely a show.

Her approach has been cavalier from the start, when she announced an “official impeachment inquiry” back on Sept. 24 — yet didn’t allow an actual House vote to make it official until Oct. 31, after weeks of leaked testimony from closed-door hearings had ensured that she’d have the votes.

And it’s only gotten worse. “The facts are uncontested,” she said Thursday — then whipped off “facts” that in reality are vigorously contested.

Namely: “The president abused his power for his own personal political benefit at the expense of our national security by withholding military aid and a crucial Oval Office meeting in exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political rival.”

That is indeed what Democrats say Trump did. But they haven’t remotely established it as fact, and certainly aren’t trying all that hard to do so. Most important, as law professor Jonathan Turley testified Wednesday, they haven’t shown his intent was corrupt, rather than a sincere effort to get to the bottom of scandals he believed had been covered up. Which means that they haven’t shown he abused his powers in any way.

And while they’ve asked for the testimony of those in the best position to know, such as former national security adviser John Bolton, they’ve refused to push the matter in court after the president objected, as is his right, on grounds of executive privilege.

Pelosi cited the “separation of powers, three co-equal branches, each a check and balance on the other” as the heart of what she’s supposedly protecting from Trump. Yet that doctrine gives Trump the right to seek a judiciary ruling on executive privilege.

Yes, it would take a few weeks. But it’s the only way the House could build a case with a real chance of convincing the Senate to remove Trump from office.

If Pelosi were truly out to protect the republic from the threat she claims Trump poses,

This With 24/7 Non-stop Hate propaganda From All The Television Outlets, Newspapers, Hollywood, Television Show, Late Night Comedians, Indoctrination By Teachers And Professors, Violence and Threats Of Violence From Hooded Leftist Anarcho-Communists, Intimidation By FBI, CIA And Deep State Operatives, Non-stop Media Hyped Impeachment Hearings With Fake Charges, He Still Gets 52 Percent.

Imagine If They Just Reported The Facts?

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Did Commissar Schiff employ KGB tactics to spy on his rivals as well as Trump?

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is one reflexive liar, constantly caught in the act of stating one thing and being caught doing another. He coordinated with the so-called whistleblower for impeachment of President Trump and then denied he did it. He said he had the goods to sink Trump from the Mueller report ... and didn't. The list goes on.

So now his denial of ever subpoenaing the phone records of his Republican counterpart, Rep. Devin Nunes, one of Nunes's aides, and reporter John Solomon, (as well as those of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his Ukrainian client named Lev Parnas) is worth looking at.

Power Line's Scott Johnson interpreted the apparent spying as evidence that Schiff got the phone data from his subpoenas of the Giuliani and Parnas phone records in the impeachment report, and yes, Johnson, unlike Schiff, is credible, so I was inclined to accept his take earlier.

But other reports suggest that Schiff is lying, spying on his rivals, doing it with subpoenas, putting the Soviet KGB to shame.

The Wall Street Journal, for one, dug deeper and reported an undisclosed source saying that yes, Schiff did indeed issue subpoenas to spy on Trump's lawyers, as well as his own political counterparts, and inconvenient reporters like Solomon. I'll bet Kimberley Strassel wrote that one:

This is unprecedented and looks like an abuse of government surveillance authority for partisan gain. Democrats were caught using the Steele dossier to coax the FBI into snooping on the 2016 Trump campaign. Now we have elected members of Congress using secret subpoenas to obtain, and then release to the public, the call records of political opponents.

Our sources says Mr. Schiff issued a subpoena in September to AT&T, demanding call logs for five numbers—including Mr. Giuliani’s. Subsequent subpoenas to AT&T and Verizon demanded more details. Republicans were told of the subpoenas, yet under rules of committee secrecy couldn’t raise public objections.

Readers may recall that only a few years ago Democrats were in high dudgeon over the executive branch’s collection of metadata against terrorists. They claimed the National Security Agency was “spying” on Americans, and in 2015 Congress barred NSA from collecting bulk domestic metadata. Federal investigators must offer legitimate reasons to obtain metadata from telecom companies, and they are subject to restrictions on divulging it.

Yet here the companies appear to have handed over metadata based on little more than Mr. Schiff’s say-so—and in AT&T’s case in response to a request that was made before the House began a formal impeachment inquiry.

AT&T released a statement Wednesday saying it is “required by law to provide information to government and law enforcement agencies.”

The fact that AT&T tried to extricate itself from controversy instead of just deny that it forked over any subpoena records relating to Devin Nunes and others suggests something damning going on, too.

For now, it comes down to whom you believe - Schiff, or the Journal, which probably fact-checked the hell out of that bombshell detail about the subpoenas before printing it.

Schiff says he only spied on...