House Select Subcommittee For the Weaponization of the Federal Government
House Select Subcommittee For the Weaponization of the Federal Government
Goldman rocks the house, and he's barely out of the gate. He's going to be fun to watch.
House Select Subcommittee For the Weaponization of the Federal Government
Absolutely!
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
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Turley tries to clean up on aisle 4.
Nicolle Wallace had Ron Goldman in the studio yesterday, and she asked him about the point of order in Thursday's hearing and why the minority hasn't been given access to these dozens and dozens of whistleblowers the Rs have interviewed. Worth a watch.Turley: It’s like I couldn’t testify on the Pentagon Papers unless I worked at the Pentagon
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I'm not sure why I'm not being interviewed. I've worked...somewhere.
Why was Turley called? And the FBI guy who retired decades ago? How are they relevant to anything?
Why was Turley called? And the FBI guy who retired decades ago? How are they relevant to anything?
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Ex. She quit the FBI because, weaponization*.pipistrelle wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:36 pm Is that woman an active special agent? I hope not. She sounded like she was going to veer into partisanship, speaking for the American people.
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Because it is just theater, and Turley (especially) is just singing for his supper.pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 12:56 pm Why was Turley called? And the FBI guy who retired decades ago? How are they relevant to anything?
Turley basically said he was there to provide his unique, expert insight to ... publicly available information.
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Sad. She can join security at Mar-a-Lago.p0rtia wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 1:00 pmEx. She quit the FBI because, weaponization*.pipistrelle wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:36 pm Is that woman an active special agent? I hope not. She sounded like she was going to veer into partisanship, speaking for the American people.
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Jim Jordan claims his "weaponization of government" hearing was actually bipartisan because Republicans invited Tulsi Gabbard and Jonathan Turley
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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conclusion:Kendra wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 9:23 pm https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 45d9&ei=19
tl;dr, at least tonight. I'm tired...
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It says Jim Jordan overpromised and underdelivered, and even some Rs think it is a shitshow.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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It's over? Already?! I thought it was going to go on forever.
Some of my favorite parts of the MSN article posted above...
Some of my favorite parts of the MSN article posted above...
But you ARE morons, sir.The results have left Democrats gleeful and even some Republicans deeply unimpressed. A “dumpster fire,” is how one Democrat with knowledge of the at-times combative interactions terms the proceedings. “Clearly there is room to grow and improve before [more] public hearings,” a Republican familiar with the process tells Rolling Stone. But the work so far, the Republican says, has been “very much amateur hour,” adding that airing this “stuff on live television would make us look like morons.” (Sources spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about the sensitive matters.)
“It is beyond disappointing, but sadly not surprising, that Democrats would leak cherry-picked excerpts of testimony to attack the brave whistleblowers who risked their careers to speak out on abuses at the Justice Department and FBI,” a GOP House Judiciary spokesperson tells Rolling Stone.
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That's just what I was going to say. And they don't have the facts on their side to be anything other than a shitshowl
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/02/politics ... index.html
Nicole Wallace did a deep dive on this today as well.In his quest to prove the federal government has been “weaponized” against conservatives, Republican House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has touted the allegations of what he claims are “dozens” of whistleblowers who have come to his office with stories of discrimination and bias.
While little is known about them, Jordan’s reliance on these whistleblowers is already emerging as an early flashpoint, with Democrats raising questions about their legitimacy as actual whistleblowers and the relevance of their testimony.
Three of Jordan’s witnesses have come in for private interviews with committee staff so far. None of them appear to have had their claims validated by government entities that grant federal whistleblower protection, sources familiar with their testimony said. One who alleged there was FBI wrongdoing had their claims rejected. Another is retired and it’s unclear whether he has first-hand knowledge of the violations he alleges. The third has not revealed his direct disclosures or FBI suspension notice to House Democrats, according to transcripts reviewed by CNN.
Separately, several other supposed whistleblowers who have not come in for interviews were suspended from the FBI for being at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to multiple sources familiar with the committee’s work. This is a point Jordan has not shied away from, using the accounts of “several whistleblowers” in a May 2022 letter to accuse the FBI of “retaliating against employees” for engaging in “protected First Amendment activity on January 6.” Jordan added in the letter that he had been told none of these whistleblowers were inside the US Capitol, charged with any crime or contacted by law enforcement about their actions.
Edit: NYT too, link not gifted :/
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Moar.
Dems have put out a 300-page prebuttal of GOP’s purported FBI “whistleblowers.” Basically, Dems suggest these witnesses wilted when they were actually pressed for details and had no firsthand knowledges of the abuses they claimed.
One example:
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/u ... report.pdf
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I think so, similar to what I saw on Deadline WH. Thank you.much ado wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 7:31 pmIs this the one?
Gift link: G.O.P. Witnesses, Paid by Trump Ally, Embraced Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theories
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 8c453&ei=2
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, who infamously refused to honor a lawful subpoena from the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack requiring his testimony last year, on Friday issued a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray demanding 16 FBI agents testify before his committee or face subpoenas to do so.
The letter is officially from the Judiciary Committee but was tweeted out by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which is also chaired by Jordan. That new subcommittee has been the subject of scrutiny and mockery over the past 24 hours after Jordan claimed he had three FBI "whistleblowers" who Democrats in a damning 300-page report say have no first-hand knowledge of any wrongdoing.
Democrats are demanding Jordan make the three agents testify in public "about the so-called 'weaponization' of the law enforcement agency," Raw Story reported.
"A series of reports have shown that Jim Jordan's new 'weaponization subcommittee' is based on lies," says MSNBC executive producer Kyle Griffin. "Witnesses who appeared at hearings have spread conspiracies about Jan. 6, some have zero firsthand knowledge of any FBI wrongdoing, and some have been paid by Trump allies."
The New York Times reported at least two of the so-called whistleblowers were compensated by a top Trump ally, Kash Patel.
"Nick Akerman, former assistant special Watergate prosecutor and former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, told Newsweek on Friday that Jordan and the Republicans are relying on 'three nutcases' to provide evidence of a 'Deep State conspiracy' about COVID-19, January 6, 2021, Capitol riot or the 2020 presidential election being stolen," Newsweek reports.
Chairman Jordan's three-page Friday letter to the FBI Director appeared at the far-right wing website Breitbart as an "exclusive," and was posted to Twitter by Jordan’s committee, which also retweeted the Breitbart story. The Judiciary Committee also quickly republished the Breitbart story to the Committee’s website.
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Goldman is soooooooooooooooo good to have on that committee. Jordan never knows what hit him.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
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Now I am really looking forward to the findings of the committee on Hunter Bidens laptop
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Above document has this Executive Summary extracted from the 300+ pagesKendra wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 7:32 pm Moar.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/ ... 5922705408Dems have put out a 300-page prebuttal of GOP’s purported FBI “whistleblowers.” Basically, Dems suggest these witnesses wilted when they were actually pressed for details and had no firsthand knowledges of the abuses they claimed.
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/u ... report.pdf
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Cross posting.
After Democrats on the Weaponization Comm learned who Jim Jordan’s first “whistleblower” was and put out info showing he was a disgruntled conspiracy theorist, Gaetz says they should now be excluded from future depositions.
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I’m tired of yelling at my phone.
Oh, those poor poor kids without winter coats!!!
HORSESHIT!!!
Oh, those poor poor kids without winter coats!!!
HORSESHIT!!!