Pelosi Impeachment Inquiry

TreeFrogTrader said:
.... Dirty cops, corrupt intel agencies, and nothing but swamp as far as the eye can see in Washington.
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And forever more.

Oh wait Chumpie is going to drain the swamp. Yup. And Jared. And Junior. And Eric. And Ivanka. Did I miss any swamp drainers?

Fore eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 
Optionpro007 said:
Here you go TDS sufferers:

April 4, 2020
Right firing, right reason: Trump was right to get rid of Michael Atkinson
By Monica Showalter
Doing the Friday night news dump thang, while attention is in any case focused on the coronavirus, President Trump moved to get rid of the Intelligence Community's Inspector General, Michael Atkinson.

That's the guy who changed the rules to accomodate the so-called whistleblower, with zero firsthand knowledge, to file his whistleblowings about President Trump to Adam Schiff's House intelligence committee staff, planning it all out beforehand, in order to open the gates to impeachment. Until Atkinson came along, a whistleblower needed to have had firsthand knowledge of official wrongdoing, not water cooler talk from fellow malcontents in the deep state trying to come up with some way to Get Trump. The fact that likely whistleblower, CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella, was able to file such charges with nothing more than disliking Trump as his motive, is precisely why the impeachment bid failed against the president and ended as such a farce.

That wasn't all he did, either, he also stonewalled Congress when asked about his convenient little rules change. Seems he wanted to hide something.

In any other setting, where a coup plotter changes the rules to make things go the way he likes to make things go, or a malcontent is constanting striking at the boss, it's a perfect reason for getting rid of the creep. Trump was absolutely right to fire Atkinson for picking and choosing how to make a motivated, politically soiled malcontent appear credible by manipulating the rules to let him do it. It's comparable to an election official changing the rules on ballot-harvesting to get some extra ballot boxes in for the count in order to get the desired election result.

Conservative Treehouse notes that Trump's operatives seem to have set the terms right, too:

The necessary, albeit politically controversial, move comes about two months after President Trump assigned Ric Grenell to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Grenell is ultimately the acting boss of the overall intelligence community. It is likely DNI Grenell provided some key insight into the sketchy background activity in/around Atkinson’s office, and the overall intelligence apparatus writ large.

Additionally, former congressman Mark Meadows is now President Trump’s Chief-of-Staff; and Meadows has been a critic of those within the intelligence apparatus who attempted a soft-coup twice: Once by special counsel (Russia investigation) Robert Mueller; and once by impeachment (Ukraine investigation) using CIA operative Eric Ciaramella and NSC operative Alexander Vindman.

'Sketchy' is right. And it's nice to see that Trump has gotten rid of a host of these coup plotters, one by one, each atomized and rabbit-holed all by himself, all based on their space-grade disloyalty.

Look at how this far-left Washington Post op-ed columnist is screaming about that:

The move is merely the latest example of Trump pushing out someone with a degree of oversight over him personally or whose actions impacted investigations of him:

Good calls on every last one of them.

Grenell, the Treehouse notes, had all the information he needed to get rid of Atkinson based on the information contained within from the Department of Justice's Inspector General memos from John Durham, writing:

Also, in the recent FISA review by the OIG the DOJ inspector general specifically identified issues with the “accuracy reviews” conducted by DOJ-NSD chief legal counsel. Who was that former DOJ-NSD chief legal counsel? That would be current ICIG Michael Atkinson…

Atkinson was never about accuracy, his area of expertise was manipulating rules to achieve the politicized outcomes he liked.

Good thing then that Trump got rid of him, he was basically a guy at odds with facts who had a problem with democratic outcomes. Any other president, by the way, would have done the same, especially Presidents Obama and Clinton, who were famous for their political payback.

It's possible that this is just the beginning of this great shakeout of Deep State. Will Eric Ciaramella's leaks to the press -- extremely unseemly in a CIA man -- be investigated for wrongdoing? Will John Bolton's suspiously timed leaks be looked into?

One can only hope.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...out-get-much-worse-schiff-just-sent-up-flare/
Trump’s purge is about to get much worse. Schiff just sent up a flare.

Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) just announced that the House Intelligence Committee, which he chairs, will be examining Trump’s firing of Atkinson. And buried in Schiff’s letter making this announcement is an unsettling glimpse of where all this could be going.

Schiff’s letter, which is addressed to acting director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, expresses Schiff’s concern that Grenell is politicizing that office on Trump’s behalf, noting that every Senate-confirmed person in the DNI has been removed.

Schiff’s letter argues that Atkinson “acted with the highest integrity and remarkable professionalism,” while being subjected to a campaign of attacks by Trump and his allies simply for adhering to his oath of office.

Notably, in the section announcing the investigation of Atkinson’s dismissal, Schiff calls on Grenell to confirm in writing whether he ever exercised his “authority” to “prohibit” any other “investigation, inspection, audit, or review” that Atkinson might have undertaken.

Schiff’s letter also calls on Grenell to stipulate in writing that he “will not permit retaliation or reprisals against anyone who has made, or in the future makes, protected disclosures of misconduct.”

Schiff’s letter also calls on Grenell to stipulate in writing that he “will not permit retaliation or reprisals against anyone who has made, or in the future makes, protected disclosures of misconduct.”

Who might make such reprisals against such protected disclosures? Why, one Donald J. Trump, of course.

Those are very suggestive moves by Schiff. They in effect throw down the gauntlet and challenge Grenell not to stipulate to those things.

Ned Price, a former senior National Security Council official and CIA analyst, told me that if Grenell refuses to make these stipulations — which is plausible if not likely — it will underscore how abnormal this administration truly is.

“His decision not to answer would be incredibly telling,” Price said.

Price added that a failure on Grenell’s part to state that he hadn’t interfered in any other ongoing investigations, or a refusal to pledge to defend employees in the future, might signal a willingness to allow Trump to proceed with a “campaign of retaliation.”

This a reasonable concern because there already is such a campaign of retaliation. As noted above, Trump blithely admitted that’s why he fired Atkinson.
 
Here4money said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...out-get-much-worse-schiff-just-sent-up-flare/
Trump’s purge is about to get much worse. Schiff just sent up a flare.

Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) just announced that the House Intelligence Committee, which he chairs, will be examining Trump’s firing of Atkinson. And buried in Schiff’s letter making this announcement is an unsettling glimpse of where all this could be going.

Schiff’s letter, which is addressed to acting director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, expresses Schiff’s concern that Grenell is politicizing that office on Trump’s behalf, noting that every Senate-confirmed person in the DNI has been removed.

Schiff’s letter argues that Atkinson “acted with the highest integrity and remarkable professionalism,” while being subjected to a campaign of attacks by Trump and his allies simply for adhering to his oath of office.

Notably, in the section announcing the investigation of Atkinson’s dismissal, Schiff calls on Grenell to confirm in writing whether he ever exercised his “authority” to “prohibit” any other “investigation, inspection, audit, or review” that Atkinson might have undertaken.

Schiff’s letter also calls on Grenell to stipulate in writing that he “will not permit retaliation or reprisals against anyone who has made, or in the future makes, protected disclosures of misconduct.”

Schiff’s letter also calls on Grenell to stipulate in writing that he “will not permit retaliation or reprisals against anyone who has made, or in the future makes, protected disclosures of misconduct.”

Who might make such reprisals against such protected disclosures? Why, one Donald J. Trump, of course.

Those are very suggestive moves by Schiff. They in effect throw down the gauntlet and challenge Grenell not to stipulate to those things.

Ned Price, a former senior National Security Council official and CIA analyst, told me that if Grenell refuses to make these stipulations — which is plausible if not likely — it will underscore how abnormal this administration truly is.

“His decision not to answer would be incredibly telling,” Price said.

Price added that a failure on Grenell’s part to state that he hadn’t interfered in any other ongoing investigations, or a refusal to pledge to defend employees in the future, might signal a willingness to allow Trump to proceed with a “campaign of retaliation.”

This a reasonable concern because there already is such a campaign of retaliation. As noted above, Trump blithely admitted that’s why he fired Atkinson.
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Excellent. Maybe another impeachment scam is in order.

As always, if you lefterrhoids want to see Trump be re-elected, just keep doing what you are doing. You are doing all the right things.
 
If anyone has roids it's rightwingnuts doing a visual colonoscopy of Chumpie's azz.

But we'll see in Nov if there are still enough Chumpie voters in PA, MI, WI, FL, OH. No Shillary to scare them with this time. But I can hear it now Biden will take yer guns. Biden is a bigger socialist than Bernie. Biden is sloooow and oooooold.... He'll fire everyone around him at least 6 times each and deny he every said X or did Y. Wait wait now I'm confusing him with Chumpie.

MakeAmericaGambleAgain on a bankrupt former casino owner. Fool me once .....
 
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