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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy, how things have changed since the Benghazi investigation. Page 360 of the report:
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I'm so sick of their goddamned hypocrisy and lies.
Edited to add link to report:
https://www.congress.gov/114/crpt/hrpt848/CRPT-114hrpt848.pdf
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)But these people have no shame.
fierywoman
(7,688 posts)held.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)DarthDem
(5,256 posts)Of course they just say whatever they need to depending on the day and change their views on a whim.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,748 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,452 posts)bazillion pages of it.
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)It seems he's finally disgusted with the hypocrisy of the repugs.
catbyte
(34,424 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,339 posts)IIR.
AllaN01Bear
(18,331 posts)catbyte
(34,424 posts)If that doesn't work, here's the page I got the pdf from:
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/114th-congress/house-report/848/1
AllaN01Bear
(18,331 posts)from what i understand that a republican congress cut back the guard there and i 100% blame it on them. they were trying to make hillary a scape goat.
catbyte
(34,424 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)while these impeachment hearings are meant to expose actual crimes committed by Donald Trump, a Republican. So they are completely different. Republicans can approve of one, but must condemn the other. It's not a matter of right vs. wrong, it's purely a matter of Republican vs. not Republican.
Crunchy Frog
(26,610 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)were shooting people. Trumps lawyers said no. Dems have to jump all over this. They should be on every news show screaming this. Judges should have asked can Trump rape women and children while President and not be prosecuted.
progressoid
(49,992 posts)VarryOn
(2,343 posts)brer cat
(24,591 posts)Their hypocrisy is well documented, but their base never reads and they certainly don't hear this on FOX.
srose58089
(214 posts)These couple paragraphs from page 360 need to be mailed to all 23 SCIF crashers. They need to be reminded just how childish their behavior is.
F I N A L R E P O R T
OF THE
SELECT COMMITTEE ON
THE EVENTS SURROUNDING
THE 2012 TERRORIST
ATTACK IN BENGHAZI
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
from page 360:
The Committees preference for private interviews over public
hearings has been questioned. Interviews are a more efficient and
effective means of discovery. Interviews allow witnesses to be questioned
in depth by a highly prepared member or staff person. In
a hearing, every member of a committee is recognizedusually for
five minutesa procedure which precludes in-depth focused questioning.
Interviews also allow the Committee to safeguard the privacy of witnesses
who may fear retaliation for cooperating or whose
work requires anonymity, such as intelligence community operatives.
Both witnesses and members of Congress conduct themselves differently
in interviews than when in the public glare of a hearing.
Neither have an incentive to play to the cameras. Witnesses have
no incentive to run out the clock as long-winded evasive answers
merely extend the length of the interview. Likewise, Members have
no need to interrupt witnesses to try to ask all their questions in
five minutes. Perhaps more importantly, political posturing, self-serving
speeches, and theatrics serve no purpose in a closed interview and, as
a result, the questioning in interviews tends to be far
more effective at discovering information than at public hearings.
For these reasons, nearly all Executive Branch investigations are
conducted in private and without arbitrary time constraints. This
is no less true in a Legislative Branch investigation, yet the manner
in which the media portrays these investigations is starkly different.
Oh and guess who was chairman? That's right Trey Gowdy