WSJ Columnist: Adam Schiff’s Secret
Subpoena Adventure Could
End with Legal Buckshot in His Face
Townhall,
by
Matt Vespa
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
12/7/2019 4:26:03 AM
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), high Chancellor of the Trump impeachment effort, might be getting away with murder. The impeachment circus that has engulfed D.C. has overshadowed the House Intelligence Committee chair’s egregious abuse of power. He executed a secret subpoenas adventure of phone records of prominent Republicans. He got their phone records and published them in the committee’s 300-page impeachment report. Now, the report is a work of fiction. Schiff is a liar, and nothing from House Democrats on this whole fiasco should be believed. This isn’t about the Constitution, or the framers, or the rule of law. It’s not about upholding the integrity of our institutions; Source corrected
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MissMolly 12/7/2019 4:27:03 AM (No. 255223)
The source is Townhall, not Hot Air. I apologize.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
judy 12/7/2019 5:06:26 AM (No. 255230)
Where’s AG Barr? This is disgusting. Is there anything Schiff, Pelosi or Nadler won’t do in an attempt of destroy Trump?
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FTA: "It’s about the Democratic Party’s inability to grasp that it lost the 2016 election. Democrats wanted to boot Trump since day one of his presidency."
No, Mr. Vespa, it's about the UNIPARTY that grasps that Trump is a threat to their world class profiteering. There were/are the NeverTrumpers and GOPe who are united with the Dems in this coup attempt since the beginning. They were willing to sacrifice a House majority for impeachment. They just tend to be less unseemly and more shadowy, being the leadership gentry and all that.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jebediah 12/7/2019 8:01:03 AM (No. 255345)
PLUS has the all too gullible and cheering Press recognized the fact that now anyone can go in and see who its anonymous secret sources actually are?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
rsgonner 12/7/2019 8:19:11 AM (No. 255362)
Needs to be prosecuted. After the republicans take the House, he will be.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 12/7/2019 8:48:16 AM (No. 255386)
This is outrageous...…..how can this loser allowed to remain as chairman of the committee or even in Congress. But I guess if it is determined that he broke the law he wont be indicted because he is mentally unstable (that means crazy in the conservative dictionary).
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 12/7/2019 9:03:43 AM (No. 255399)
A modern-day Watergate .
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Krause 12/7/2019 9:12:56 AM (No. 255412)
Yes, Trump is loud, picks fights, etc., the people are now aware of what he is. But they are now seeing what he has accomplished, and they like it. And the more they watch the democrats they don't like it. Schiff is a huge turn-off, more and more, to a lot of voters. Stupid party.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
janjan 12/7/2019 9:20:52 AM (No. 255426)
Pelosi putting this repulsive snake out in front of us as the star of this impeachment farce is very telling. For decades the Democrats very carefully hid their true agenda behind fake smiles and were practiced at pretending to care. Trump hatred triggered them to the point where their entire America hating sick strategies are right in your face. The media fell off the cliff with them. My message to the precious independents - time to pick a side.
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The republicans need to file an ethics complaint against Schiff and have him removed as chairman until the investigation is complete just the way it was done with Nunes, good for the goose good for the gander as they say.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/7/2019 9:42:56 AM (No. 255451)
All types of buckshot should be legal in hunting an evil creature like this. Chances are it would take out both of those bugging eyes.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Firebase 12/7/2019 9:52:46 AM (No. 255458)
Schiff can probably only hope for a process crime at this point(and highly unlikely), their modus operandi all along because they never have a case to begin with. These hearings could just as well be Soviet tribunals.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/7/2019 10:11:26 AM (No. 255478)
We cannot have AT&T and Schiff unilaterally going through the private records of our citizens. Both should be sued for astronomical amounts for the harm they have done to our country.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jimincalif 12/7/2019 10:24:39 AM (No. 255496)
One mistake in this column, he refers to Schiff as a “pencil head”. That should be “pencil neck”! Maybe Matt’s too young to know the song?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 12/7/2019 10:50:14 AM (No. 255537)
It's a shame it won't be a load of real buckshot in his face.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Edgelady 12/7/2019 11:15:55 AM (No. 255575)
Democrats are viciously trying to hide how they’ve been bleeding Ukraine dry during the Obama administration. Not only was Hunter Biden being paid ridiculous amounts of money, so was John Kerry’s step son, and Pelosi’s kid as well. They don’t want this exposed.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/7/2019 11:17:00 AM (No. 255578)
Donald Trump has hit a nerve with the entire "elite" cabal in DC and they're acting like a room full of cats with a mouse running around inside. They're tripping over themselves in their zeal to catch and kill it. Rudy knows Federal law quite well and he's threatened these psychos numerous times to back off, but then Schiffty filled with self-importance and drunk with power, executed an illegal "Congressional" subpoena, not even a judicial one, to obtain phone records from AT&T... gee, if it's that easy how difficult is it to get information on political rivals? AT&T will clearly be in the cross-hairs of Congressional Republicans now, and someone at AT&T will need to be fired over this, perhaps even the CEO.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
greggojo 12/7/2019 11:17:13 AM (No. 255580)
Kimberley Strassel's column is worth the hefty WSJ subscription fee.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/7/2019 11:25:03 AM (No. 255598)
Does AG Barr even have authority and jurisdiction to take criminal action in response to any political actions that Schiff takes as Chairman of a Congressional Committee?
Would civil actions be a more effective course for people whose constitutional rights appear to have been violated by Schiff and the Democrats?
Can’t remember anything like what the Democrats are perpetrating now ever occurring before. Horowitz is an administrative Inspector General in the Department of Justice and as such his jurisdiction is limited to matters relating to that agency, its political appointees, career employees, and others doing business with that agency. He has no jurisdiction to investigate Schiff or other congress critters who not have involved themselves in matters involving the Department of Justice.
It was the same with the intelligence community inspector general accepting a politicized complaint against President Trump from the Democrat created bogus “whistleblower” when that Inspector General had no authority or jurisdiction to investigate the President or White House Operations that are outside the intelligence community agencies.
When it comes down to the nut-cutting the most effective action is probably going to be when the American people have had enough of Schiff and vote him, and enough other Democrat Congress critters out of office to put the Democrats back in the minority in the House of Representatives.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
NotaBene 12/7/2019 11:28:57 AM (No. 255606)
The Socialist-Democrat party has no right to spy in the communications between Sekulow and Giuliani, the lawyers of their prey. Was the Deep State NSA involved in this? ATT has to pay for discriminating against Republican communications, as Google, Youtube, Twitter and Facebook also do.
Peace and Prosperity 2020
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Grounded 12/7/2019 11:32:41 AM (No. 255613)
Despite all the outrage over Schiff's subpoena, sadly he has the law on his side. As in many other areas of concern, Congress is exempt from the strictures that they place on everybody else. Any law enforcement entity would have to get a warrant from a judge to access the same records. Congressional leaders just have to write up a subpoena on their own say so, as broad in scope as they desire and give it to the phone company which is legally required to comply.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 12/7/2019 1:38:27 PM (No. 255732)
Crooks?
Thieves?
Liars?
It isn’t just the rats in the House like pencil-neck or ninny pelousy or Nads..
It isn’t just quid pro joe
Obambi Soetoro the fraud
Just bought $11 million dollar estate in Martha’s Vineyard!
What a bunch of thieves!
Where he get that money from?
How he do dat?
I. I. I. Er um me me uh duh
Investigate all dem rats!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 12/7/2019 5:32:43 PM (No. 255846)
I would like to remind everyone that AG B arr not only got a two year late start at the job of AG, he has been cleaning up a mountain of nonsense that Sessions apparently didn't deal with. So while it seems like Barr isn't doing anything, I suspect he and trusted DOJ attorneys are busily working up a bunch of surprises for the Democrats and others.
Then there is also the fact that many people are starting to realize that Trump could be waiting until he has flipped enough courts to our side and that will give his indictments when he drops them a fighting chance to survive. I know people think Barr is swamp, but he shut down his long time friend Mueller's witch hunt in less than a week when he was first on the job. Pretty good work for Old School.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/7/2019 5:42:40 PM (No. 255858)
What #24 said. AG Barr inherited a monumental task. We are still finding out just how wide, deep and complex this cabal/coup was. And how much earlier it begun - from the time Trump was leading in primaries… Barr seems to be the sort who would do a workmanlike job of turning over every rock. And he couldn’t have a better prosecutor than Durham. I can wait.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/7/2019 5:45:11 PM (No. 255860)
began, not begun
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 12/7/2019 6:50:44 PM (No. 255905)
I prefer to refer to A. Schiff..as..Stalk Eyes.(visualize it..)..rather than Pencil Neck...I think when all is said and done...he is gonna mentally crack....
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I'm not particularly impressed with Matt Vespa usually, but this is a good way to read some of Strassel's excellent WSJ column (behind a paywall in the Journal)