I got to listen to parts of the hearing today, and I think DNI Maguire is handling himself very well. He was giving clear, logical answers to the questions posed without playing into partisanship. I'm not shocked, but I thought it would be good to get something positive pointed out for once.
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Another shocker is how terrible Schiff and Nunes are. Maybe we should rethink who gets security clearance?
I heard the tail end of Schiff's questions, and I wasn't impressed with him, especially since it seems like DNI and he were in communication. Same goes for Nunes. Rather than taking leadership roles in trying to get to the crux of the situation, they were taking the lead in partisan talking points with attempted gotcha questions. Maguire handled those very well.
He (Schiff) one man showed a fake phone call between Trump and Ukraine. I **** you not.
I heard where Schiff defended that as parody. This is a congressional hearing, not SNL. Time and place.
So the US public couldn’t see?
Like moving the conversations to a different server/system? Like trying to keep the IG report from Congress? Like ignoring subpoenas?
it is discussing a classified matter (or at least was and still has elements of) and it discusses an issue in which the guarantee of anonymity for the Whistleblower is the MOST important function either the committee or Executive Branch can honor.
Have you met the US public?
House hearings are dog and pony shows for fame whores.
I enjoyed watching it...and believe as a US citizen I had a right to watch it, since classified info was not discussed.
I thought he was evasive. It took 5 minutes to answer the question on whether he went to the White House or the justice department first on the question of executive privilege. That’s a pretty simple question. He was also evasive on whether he discussed the Ukraine situation with the president, claiming executive privilege, even though the White House had not made a claim of privilege.
And, whether or not he had the conversation is not executive privilege, the content of the conversation is.
He works for the President.....the President decides what is a privileged conversation and what isn't. Every Executive Branch employee should presume statements made behind closed doors by the President are priveleged until they are told officially they are NOT. It is not the Presidents job to start every conversation with an assertion of privelege. The decision with respect to whether something is priveleged or not is almost always something that occurs after the conversation and sometimes years after. Only scenario in which you wouldn't go back to the White House and ask is if the President publicly disclosed the conversation on his own to the public....like Attorney client privelege then the conversation would no longer be priveleged.
You realize you can't in fact say "we had a conversation about Ukraine" without revealing the content....
Do you have a college degree?
No, the President doesn’t decide. The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) does.
Good god you’re a moron. You have repeated nonsense all day long.
“CIA man” LMAO!
The President asserts Executive Privilege...end of discussion.......
In 1796, President George Washington refused to comply with a request by the House of Representatives for documents related to the negotiation of the then-recently adopted Jay Treaty with the Kingdom of Great Britain.
This was likely the first use of the privelege.
The Office of Legal Counsel didn't exist in 1796..its in the Justice Department and has nothing to do with whether the President is asserting Ececutive Privelege....
And it's privileged, not priveleged. LMAO!
I’m done. I’m not arguing with a pretend CIA agent who can’t spell privileged.
In other words. I cant win the debate here so I will resort to my one attribute I can do and spellcheck.
Loser
Regardless OLC has nothing to do with Executive Privilege in this case or any case.
OLC weighed in on whether this matter was of urgent concern and whether it involved a member of the Intel community.....not on Executive privilege. OLC is part of DOJ....
The White House counsels office however could be the entity by which the President exerts the privilege....I suspect the poster is too stupid to note the difference between the White House counsels office and OLC at DOJ.....Marshall grad ya know....
No doubt. I was just pointing out to cuntry that OLC works for executive branch so their decisions are Trumps decisions.