"Freedom Caucus" (Tea Party redux): Storms Closed Door Committee Room Waving False Flag

“Leaders of that Failed Charge” into a SCIF

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From Roll Call and The Hill and Wonkette - same subject:

Banking on the public's collective amnesia about every single thing that happened in the past twenty years, the GOP attempted to storm the hearing room during witness testimony like they were liberating the Bastille. 

GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is moving to censure Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) for treasonous paraphrasing and running: “A Soviet-style investigation which will execute poor, innocent Donald Trump without due process or the right to confront his accuser.”

Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) led the charge attempting to barge into the conference where House committees were interviewing Mike Pompeo's former deputy Michael McKinley.

Neither Biggs nor the rest of that herd including Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), and Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) sit on any of those committees. But, House Parliamentarian ruled against that stunt. 

Note: Closed door hearings are NOT a new DEM stunt. 

Examples:

Recall the 11-hour committee of Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State re: the Benghazi investigation was interviewed in private.

Former Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) also held closed door hearings in the Fast and the Furious investigation. 

Then later Issa was ejected from the Benghazi hearings by Trey Gowdy (R-SC) by trying to crash it. FYI: On this, Gowdy, who chaired the Benghazi panel, was correct. Not only did he take steps to prevent a political circus, but nearly every witness was interviewed behind closed doors, plus, House rules only permit members to participate in depositions if they serve on the relevant committees. These are not spectator events.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) presided over hundred hours of sealed hearings in the Russia investigation.

Gohmert said they faced the Deep State cabal: “We're in there, we're told by security staff that they can't tell us who gave the order, but the order is that they can't allow elected members of Congress into a hearing. And they can't allow elected members of Congress to review the transcript of testimony before a congressional committee.”

Further, both the Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon impeachment investigations were conducted behind closed doors in the early phases, not just to promote actual fact-finding over camera-ready histrionics, but also to prevent witnesses from coordinating their stories.

My 2 cents: The GOP is now and always has been a master at story-telling about DEMS dirty deeds and nastiness all the while selectively forgetting their own.

This is this is a classic GOP stunt. They hope the public does not or will not remember, and that their BS will sell well at Fox News.

They sadly misjudge the public and this situation illustrates that point (over and over again).

GOP examples of hypocrisy:

Then and now: How Republicans downplay subpoenas when they target Trump

Marc Thiessen blasts Democrat’s hypocrisy after impeachment inquiry turmoil

Republicans Blast Illegitimate Impeachment Fueled by Triple Hearsay as Democratic “Lynching” Hypocrisy is Exposed

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