Woah. Rep Schiff: New evidence of Trump/Russia collusion "would merit a grand jury investigation"

[kpete]

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http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/23/politics/adam-schiff-trump-russia-grand-jury/index.html

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[ms liberty]

1. This is an interesting comment. n/t

[rzemanfl]

2. K&R. Schiff should know.

"After receiving his JD from Harvard, Schiff began working as a prosecutor in the Los Angeles branch of the U.S. Attorney's Office. While an assistant U.S. Attorney he gained attention by prosecuting a case against Richard Miller, a former FBI agent convicted of "passing secret documents to the Soviet Union in exchange for a promised $65,000 in gold and cash." (from Wikipedia)

[underpants]

3. The impeachment will be better attended than the inauguration

Tweet seen on FB

[superpatriotman]

10. Believe me

It will be bigly attended.

[uponit7771]

13. Amen

[NewJeffCT]

33. Does treason still merit the death penalty in the US?

I bet a public hanging would get bigly ratings.

[deminks]

4. One of the other Dem Intel Committee members on Hardball said there is now probable cause. nt

[Amaryllis]

5. Yesterday on a conference call with DFA, Senator Merkley said we need to keep Gorsuch from

being voted on as long as we can because it will get harder and harder to proceed as more of the Russia stuff is brought to light.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Now we're talking.

I want to see Trump under oath.
He won't be able to help himself.

[Amaryllis]

20. He wouldnt be able to know truth from lies even under oath. When someone is delusional, can

they still perjure themselves?

[C_U_L8R]

21. It'll be an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of perjury

[Amaryllis]

7. CNN on video says Nunes says he has no idea what Schiff is talking about RE evidence of

collusion. So easy question: who is more credible? Nunes or Schiff?

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Nunez Has Already Committed A Crime

Case closed

[Marcuse]

18. I have no idea!

[FreepFryer]

9. And the function of a grand jury is to decide whether to issue criminal indictments. (n/t)

[yallerdawg]

11. Sheds a new light on firing all the Federal attorneys investigating?

Sessions must be on his knees praying for his eternal soul every night!

[Merlot]

22. To paraphrase "it's not a lie if you believe it"

"it's not wrong if you know in your heart it's right" would probably be sessions logic.

These people really think the ends justifies the means, they are true believers.

[GulfCoast66]

12. Well now we know

What sent Nunes into a panic yesterday and why neither the WH or Nunes is talking about it now. That was a stupid move. His credibility is shot even amoung Senate Republicans.

[Equinox Moon]

14. I am not a fan of Grand Jury, here is why.

I have seen over and over and over again black men shot and killed and their shooter gets off every time by the Grand Jury process. It is a one-sided, closed door deal.

We need all this open, independent and fair. We have too many within the government part of this treason.

[FakeNoose]

28. This! Grand juries are secret and we need this in the open

I totally agree equinox moon and I've been saying the same.
The American people need to see this - ALL of it.

[Equinox Moon]

31. Yep. Fully public!

Democracy dies in the dark

[L. Coyote]

15. There has probably been an empaneled , secret FISA grand jury in operation since October.

Otherwise, the White House would not have been subpoenaed and forced to order document retention several weeks ago. And, if that process was not near fully completed, Comey would not have been authorized to reveal an investigation was happening.

I imagine the second FISA warrant was to (1) make certain they were proceeding with an unimpeachable warrant by more narrowly defining the targets so inclusion of a possible President-elect would not impair procedureand (2) to impanel the grand jury based on the new, bullet-proof warrant.

[FakeNoose]

29. And what good did it do our country?

A secret grand jury did nothing for us, it should have all been out in the open.

***BEFORE THE ELECTION***

We could have stopped the election from even happening, if we had known.
Instead they kept it all quiet and let this asshole win.

Now where are we?

[L. Coyote]

30. You don't seem to understand.

[FakeNoose]

32. Here's what I understand -

FBI director James Comey circulated his famous letter to every member of Congress less than 10 days before the election. That letter made UNTRUE but damaging insinuations about Hillary just in time to influence a few undecided voters. The GOP made a heyday out of it, even though they knew it was nothing.

Meanwhile the FBI also had (apparent) PROOF that Trump and his group colluded with a foreign country and enemy of the USA, in order to win the election and cheat Hillary. They had this info in October and yet it was sealed by Grand Jury and nobody talked about it.

Don't you think this would have affected how people voted?

Wouldn't this have been enough to cancel the election, or at least put it on hold while Trump's candidacy was judged to be illegitimate?

I think yes. So why was this held under wraps in October?
Why is it still not being brought out even now?

[BumRushDaShow]

16. This is probably the only way to get the ball started

notably because the GOP in Congress are compromised. But it will require the DOJ to get one empaneled....

[dalton99a]

17. Kick.

[Hekate]

19. KnR

[DeminPennswoods]

23. Schiff didn't call for a GJ

What he said was that the evidence he's seen would be comparable to the kind of evidence that a prosecutor could bring to a GJ.

[Akamai]

37. great point! He was not suggesting a grand jury, but more indicating how strong the

information was.

He himself was a prosecutor for many years.

This is not the kind of crime that should be cordoned off to a darkened room, and representative Adam Schiff clearly recognizes that as well.

[triron]

24. kick for visibility

[Sculpin Beauregard]

25. SCHIFF CALLED ON THE PUBLIC TO DEMAND AN OPEN HEARING

call these people:

Devin Nunes, California, Chair
Mike Conaway, Texas
Peter King, New York
Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey
Rick Crawford, Arkansas
Trey Gowdy, South Carolina
Tom Rooney, Florida
Will Hurd, Texas
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida
Mike Turner, Ohio
Brad Wenstrup, Ohio
Chris Stewart, Utah
Elise Stefanik, New York
Adam Schiff, California, Ranking Member
Jim Himes, Connecticut
Terri Sewell, Alabama
André Carson, Indiana
Jackie Speier, California
Mike Quigley, Illinois
Eric Swalwell, California
Joaquin Castro, Texas
Denny Heck, Washington

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Calling JOHN MCCAIN and LINDSEY GRAHAM, if you are patriots you MUST speak up now!

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. Send pm to your rep at his or her site, tell them to hit the floor and not leave it until we have

hearings.

I did

[PatrickforO]

34. Treason.

These right wing demagogues are treasonous fucks, all. All they want to do is ruin everything that is decent. They have perverted the concept of 'patriotism' to mean the biggest bully on the playground, and now they are going to pay.

Good.

Fuck them.

[Honeycombe8]

35. Schiff is doing an excellent job of keeping the public informed. nt

[Kablooie]

36. Will any of this be directly linked to Trump though?

It would be awful if all these underlings were indicted but he remains unscathed.

[Akamai]

38. There is in the law culpability for those who should have known what was going on.

that is, if one is the head of a corporation (or an army) which is doing terrible things, one cannot simply state that one does not know what was going on and so therefore one is not responsible.

[cstanleytech]

39. What I dont get is why the secrecy if he knows something why not speak about it on the floor in the

the open as didnt certain Repugnant politicians do something similar in their efforts to hurt Hillary and Obama and were they not immune from being prosecuted for it because they have legal protection when speaking on the floor?