Now back into the shadows

proud of he doesn’t want to be identified. No words.

Confirming we got nothin'. We're A-holes with no respect for the rule of law.

So, we all got to kiss his really big orange a** and now Putin will give us some of his stolen countryman's wealth.

https://www.wonkette.com/closed-door-hearings-bad-now-declares-benghazi-travelgate-fastnfurious-party
Closed Door Hearings BAD NOW, Declares Party Of Benghazi/Travelgate/Fast & Furious
Five Dollar Feminist
October 17, 2019 11:35 AM

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Truly, if it wasn't for bad faith, Republicans would have no faith at all.

Tea Party -- sorry, "Freedom Caucus" -- chair Andy Biggs led the charge yesterday, attempting to barge into the conference room where House Foreign Affairs, Intel, and Oversight members were interviewing Mike Pompeo's former deputy Michael McKinley. Neither Biggs nor the rest of the Moron Squad -- Louie Gohmert, Debbie Lesko, and John Ratcliffe -- sit on any of those committees. And indeed the parliamentarian ruled that Matt Gaetz's freakishly big head had to go when he tried this same stunt on Monday. But these Gippers have a storyline to flog about sneaky Democrats holding illegitimate, secret hearings, and by Mammon they're going to do it.

Here on Planet Earth, closed-door witness interviews are absolutely bog standard procedure in the House. Aside from the 11-hour interrogation of Hillary Clinton, every single witness in the Benghazi investigation was interviewed in private. Darrell Issa held closed door hearings in the Fast and the Furious investigation, and was himself ejected from the Benghazi hearings by Trey Gowdy when he attempted an unauthorized entry. And Devin Nunes just presided over eleventy hundred hours of sealed hearings in the Russia investigation. But GO OFF, Louie!

"We're in there, we're told by security staff that they can't tell us who gave the order, but the order is that they can't allow elected members of Congress into a hearing. And they can't allow elected members of Congress to review the transcript of testimony before a congressional committee," Congressman Gohmert (R-Dumbfuckistan) told The Hill, implying that standard operating procedure amounts to a Deep State cabal.

Both the Clinton and Nixon impeachment investigations were conducted behind closed doors in the early phases, not just to promote actual fact-finding over camera-ready histrionics, but also to prevent witnesses from coordinating their stories. This rationale goes doubly for embargoing the transcripts, with pikers like Gordon Sondland, who is testifying as we type, throwing up five different trial balloons in the week before his appearance testing out which version of the "truth" the public -- particularly the portion of it that might be looking to patronize boutique hotels in Portland, Oregon -- will find least offensive.

... a full page from the Benghazi Report (I think is was the 23rd report, or maybe the 47th) where Gowdy Doody explained why it was oh so necessary to take all the House depositions privately. They are so full of shit, and too ideological to realize it.

for sure.