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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeriously, what did they hope to discover with this SHIT SHOW?
Did they really expect that Peter Strzok would just say "hey, I admit it... this Russia investigation is a witch hunt and I started it for no other reason but that Donald Trump is a Republican!" ???
cally
(21,589 posts)And video clips to how their base. Probably worked if edited enough to eliminate all facts
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)It is all theater 🎭.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)It's the kind of thing where everybody knows the outcome, but they still come to see.
C_U_L8R
(44,891 posts)until they are so weakened and disgraced that a true one-party dictatorship can seize power. That's their goal.
Goodheart
(5,264 posts)LOL.
All theater for the Fox crowd, IMV.
maxsolomon
(32,984 posts)Filling time with words that delegitimize the FBI and Mueller. Fox will show them doing so, the President will get tweet fodder.
Mission Accomplished.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)They were just using the trappings of the U.S. Govt for purely partisan political purposes. Corruption reigns supreme.
BumRushDaShow
(127,298 posts)It was all about his supposed bias against Drumpf and "her emails".
Goodheart
(5,264 posts)GOP: "You were biased."
Strzok: "No, I wasn't."
GOP: "You were fired for being biased."
Strzok: "No, I wasn't."
GOP: "You're lying. I know that you're a liar because you cheated on your wife."
Dems: "Goober needs to go take his meds."
I gotta admit... it was highly entertaining.
BumRushDaShow
(127,298 posts)This part was even more entertaining!
00:45:39
CICILLINE: SECOND.
00:45:40
GOODLATTE: YOU'RE NOT RECOGNIZED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
00:45:45
NADLER: MR. CHAIRMAN, I THINK YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO RECOGNIZE SUCH A MOTION.
00:45:48
GOODLATTE: I DO NOT HAVE --
00:45:54
CICILLINE: ARE YOU JUST GOING TO MAKE UP RULES AS WE GO ALONG?
00:45:57
GOODLATTE: THE MOTION IS NOT IN ORDER DURING THE TIME CONTROLLED BY THE GENTLEMAN FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
00:46:03
NADLER: I APPEAL THAT RULING OF THE CHAIR.
00:46:08
GOODLATTE: MR. STRZOK, WILL YOU ANSWER --
00:46:10
NADLER: I APPEAL THE RULING OF THE CHAIR THAT MY MOTION TO AJOURP --
00:46:16
GOODLATTE: THE GENTLEMAN IS NOT IN ORDER.
NADLER: THAT MAY BE BUT I APPEAL --
00:46:20
GOODLATTE: KNOWING THIS, WILL YOU ANSWER THE COMMITTEE'S QUESTION AS DIRECTED OR DO YOU REFUSE TO ANSWER THE COMMITTEE'S QUESTION?
00:46:28
STRZOK: MR. CHAIRMAN, AS YOU KNOW, COUNSEL FOR THE FBI HAS DISTRIBUTED MEDIRECTED ME NOT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ONGOING INVESTIGATION. COUNSEL FOR THE FBI IS SITTING HERE BEHIND ME. MAY I CONSULT WITH THEM?
00:46:40
GOODLATTE: YOU MAY CONSULT WITH YOUR OWN COUNSEL.
00:46:43
STRZOK: BUT I MAY NOT CONSULT WITH THE FBI'S COUNSEL?
00:46:45
GOODLATTE: ONLY WITH YOUR OWN COUNSEL.
00:46:49
NADLER: MR. CHAIRMAN, THERE'S NO BASIS FOR THAT. HE CAN CONSULT WITH THE FBI COUNSEL. HE'S AN FBI --
00:46:53
GOODLATTE: THE GENTLEMAN IS NOT RECOGNIZED.
00:46:55
NADLER: AND THE CHAIRMAN IS NOT BEING PROPER.
00:46:58
GOODLATTE: THE CHAIRMAN IS BEING PROPER.
00:46:59
CICILLINE: THE WITNESS CAN'T BE DIRECTED NOT TO CONFER WITH HIS ATTORNEY.
00:47:04
GOODLATTE: THE FBI IS NOT HIS ATTORNEY. HIS ATTORNEY IS SEATED BEHIND HIM.
00:47:08
CICILLINE: HE'S AN EMPLOYEE OF THE FBI.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?447953-1/fbi-deputy-assistant-director-peter-strzok-testifies-2016-investigations-part-1&start=2736
0rganism
(23,855 posts)it's all about imagery, plain and simple.
they accomplished their goal.
Hamlette
(15,388 posts)LuvLoogie
(6,854 posts)make it so their constituents believed it. This was about the GOP giving their base a reason to come out in November. And they will only be judged by how much damage they can inflict upon anything that is the antithesis to their bigoted nihilism.