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GOP resorts to Brownshirt tactics October 23, 2019 9:43 am ER

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/467092-republicans-storm-into-house-hearing-to-break-up-trump-impeachment-testimony

House Republicans stormed a closed-door hearing Wednesday morning to protest Democrats’ impeachment inquiry process, breaking up the deposition of a top Defense Department who was testifying about President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

“They crashed the party,” said Rep. Harley Rouda (D-Calif.), a member of the Oversight Committee, one of three House panels leading the impeachment probe.

Dozens of Republicans, including some members of leadership, barged into the secure hearing room in the Capitol basement where Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, was set to provide private testimony. GOP lawmakers have argued that other lawmakers, not just members of the three committees leading the probe, should be able to attend the closed-door hearings with witnesses.
Several lawmakers said that, in response to the Republican protest, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) had left the room with Cooper, postponing the interview indefinitely.

https://www.axios.com/house-republicans-impeachment-hearing-trump-ukraine-50036a32-6a78-4af4-874f-475fe90db264.html

House Republicans stormed a closed-door hearing Wednesday morning to protest Democrats’ impeachment inquiry process, breaking up the deposition of a top Defense Department who was testifying about President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

“They crashed the party,” said Rep. Harley Rouda (D-Calif.), a member of the Oversight Committee, one of three House panels leading the impeachment probe.

Dozens of Republicans, including some members of leadership, barged into the secure hearing room in the Capitol basement where Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, was set to provide private testimony. GOP lawmakers have argued that other lawmakers, not just members of the three committees leading the probe, should be able to attend the closed-door hearings with witnesses.
Several lawmakers said that, in response to the Republican protest, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) had left the room with Cooper, postponing the interview indefinitely.

Its not the first time, in Florida, during the election night hanging chad recounts of 1999, gangs of skinny-tied, crew-cutted, khaki-trousered thugs descended on Florida polling stations to intimidate election workers. Now they’re wearing Armani and Brooks Brothers. This time, Florida GOP Freedom Caucus Congressman Matt Gaetz leads the charge, storming into a SCIF (Secret Compartmentalized Information Facility) in DC where Ukraine testimony is being taken and recorded in an attempt to disrupt the proceedings.

I worked in SCIFs when I was a spook. They are highly secure, above Top Secret, RF-proof facilities where cameras and cell phones are strictly forbidden. Just trying to sneak this kind of contraband into a SCIF was considered a Federal Crime.

Its only a matter of time before they start breaking into news broadcasts and beating up the anchors, or kidnapping journalists they find objectionable. Can murdering them and dismembering their bodies be far behind?

WAPO’s take on it: (No, I am not making this up. It HAS come to this.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-live-updates/2019/10/23/8a9b1fd8-f51a-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html

  • “If the facts are against you,... by RL 2019-10-25 18:02:13
    • It is an act of gaslighting:"13 Republicans involved in impeachment protest already have access to hearings" by RL 2019-10-23 20:35:43
      • If the Democrats had conducted open, public hearings.... by ER 2019-10-24 10:15:10
      • Formal censure would be entirely appropriate by Robert 2019-10-23 10:21:22
        • Thanks for the reassurance. by ER 2019-10-23 10:59:43
          • Yep by Robert 2019-10-24 15:50:35

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