Pence rejects calls to declassify new impeachment testimony

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Source: Politico

By KYLE CHENEY and ANDREW DESIDERIO
12/11/2019 11:00 PM EST

Vice President Mike Pence’s counsel rejected House Democrats’ request to declassify details of a Sept. 18 call between Pence and Ukraine’s president, calling the request illegitimate because the impeachment inquiry has concluded.

In a letter to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Pence’s lawyer, Matthew Morgan, said it “serves no purpose” to declassify supplemental testimony from one of Pence’s national security aides, as Schiff had demanded.

“At this point, the Intelligence Committee’s oversight authority is limited to those areas in which it may potentially legislate or appropriate,” Morgan wrote to Schiff, who pressed Pence last week to declassify supplemental testimony from one of the vice president’s national security aides, Jennifer Williams.

The additional testimony, Schiff said, centers on Pence’s Sept. 18 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Earlier Wednesday, Schiff formally transmitted the classified testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, which began debating articles of impeachment late Wednesday night.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/pence-impeachment-declassify-testimony-083349

[redstatebluegirl]

1. So now Mr. Pence is obstructing Congress.

He has been up to his eyeballs in this mess from the beginning. He has been pretty quiet lately, trying to stay under the radar in case we manage to remove the orange one, or he resigns under pressure. Pence still wants to be President he thinks God has ordained it.

[lagomorph777]

5. So he wants a piece of this?

Bring it on!

Impeach the motherfucker.

[mpcamb]

2. Get Pence First!

[CaptYossarian]

10. Right. So Trump's impeachment investigation has concluded.

What about Pence's impeachment? Pompeo and Barr are possible targets too. Each individual in Trump's cabinet AND Kavanaugh are guilty of something. It was what qualified them for the job, according to the Corrupt one-in Chief.

So many perps. So little time.

[getagrip_already]

3. it's one of there arguments in mazer....

That the intel committee's requests are unconstitutional because they are not an investigative body. Which isn't true since there is clearly an impeachment investigation ongoing, and in any event, it's part of the legitimate purpose of legislating (if you don't know of abuses, you can't craft legislation to curb them). Plus, it isn't legit to use the classification process to hide embarrassing info.

More slime, delays, and lies.

The scotus should decide today whether to hear mazer and possibly related cases. We should know by friday. If they do, they will take up these arguments in january and have a decision by june (although it could be much sooner).

[ffr]

4. That's an admission that the transcript is a Something-burger.

Why hide the truth, unless it's so bad it could get the V.P. impeached as well?

[BlueIdaho]

6. Consciousness of Guilt. nt.

[Brainfodder]

7. DUH! for 200 Alex?

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Let's make it a two-fer impachment.

Mikey Pants is as corrupt as Spanky.

[CaptYossarian]

11. You're referring to Micro Penis.

It's funnier and the spelling is much closer. Probably accurate as hell (hung like a gnat).

[Botany]

9. Please remember that Paul Manafort picked Pence to be V.P.

n/t

[joost5]

12. I think the Intel committee has seen the transcript

but it's not public. The Dems want to make it public over Pence's objection and legal maneuvering. There's something damaging there to Pence.