Now we know why the so-called impeachment inquiry is behind closed doors. Gotta control that narrative. Federalist: "
Top Diplomat Testified That Obama Admin, Not International Community, Orchestrated Ukraine Prosecutor’s Firing" - "
The Obama administration, not the international community, orchestrated the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating a company connected to Joe Biden's son, a top diplomat testified to Congress yesterday."
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The so-called inquiry is behind so-called closed doors because the so-called criminal referrals were given first to so-called Attorney General William Barr. But Barr interviewed no one while declining to investigate. (And was mentioned by name in the criminal referrals.)
If he had done his job, Barr would not have begun his investigation with open hearings, either. The House is starting its inquiry the way the AG should have.
It's not Adam Schiff's fault your crook picked Pudgy John Mitchell to run the TrumpCo Department of Justice.
What criminal referrals? Career prosecutors at the DOJ's Criminal Division reviewed the call and said there was no crime.
Do you not know this? Nah, you didn't know this.
NBC News: CIA's Top Lawyer Made 'Criminal Referral' on Complaint About Trump Ukraine Call
CNN: How the Justice Department handled the criminal referrals in the Ukraine call controversy
Washington Post: The Justice Department is oddly incurious about potential criminality in the Trump-Ukraine mess
Daily Beast: DOJ shot down campaign finance criminal referral after Ukraine whistleblower complaint
Talking Points Memo: DOJ Declined To Act On Criminal Referral In Trump's Ukraine Smear
(etc etc)
From the first NBC article:
"While that timeline and the CIA general counsel's contact with the Justice Department has been previously disclosed, it has not been reported that the CIA's top lawyer intended her call to be a criminal referral about the president's conduct, acting under rules set forth in a memo governing how intelligence agencies should report allegations of federal crimes.
The fact that she and other top Trump administration political appointees saw potential misconduct in the whistleblower's early account of alleged presidential abuses puts a new spotlight on the Justice Department's later decision to decline to open a criminal investigation — a decision that the Justice Department said publicly was based purely on an analysis of whether the president committed a campaign finance law violation.
"They didn't do any of the sort of bread-and-butter type investigatory steps that would flush out what potential crimes may have been committed," said Berit Berger, a former federal prosecutor.
...Justice Department officials now say they didn't consider the phone conversation a formal criminal referral because it was not in written form. A separate criminal referral came later from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence."
Did you not read this? Nah, you didn't read this.
Anyway, it's no harm, no foul. Adam Schiff has got this.
And unlike Trump Republicans, Chairman Schiff's closed doors are completely hinged.
It's true: I didn't pay attention to the opinion of CIA official when it came to deciding legal matters. Because it doesn't. Matter, that is.
Putting your faith in Adam Schiff is hilarious.
What criminal referrals? Uh oh, those criminal referrals. Did you not know this?
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