House Republicans storm impeachment inquiry hearing claiming that they have been shut out of the process and kept in the dark
After checking with each of the three committees, Judiciary, Oversight and Intelligence, and requesting confirmation of the committees the attendance sheets, The following Republican members of Congress have:
Been present at each of the impeachment inquiry hearings held before their respective committee.
Questioned every witness before their respective committee
Cross examined every witness appearing before the committee
Have had the exact same amount of time to question each witness as their Democrat counterpart
There is one explanation to the Republican claim of being shut out, THESE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE LIARS.
Doug Collins, Georgia
F. James Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin
Steve Chabot, Ohio
Louie Gohmert, Texas
Jim Jordan, Ohio
Ken Buck, Colorado
John Ratcliffe, Texas
Martha Roby, Alabama
Matt Gaetz, Florida
Mike Johnson, Louisiana
Andy Biggs, Arizona
Tom McClintock, California
Debbie Lesko, Arizona
Guy Reschenthaler
Ben Cline, Virginia
Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota
W. Gregory Steube, Florida
Devin Nunes, California
Mike Conaway, Texas
Michael Turner, Ohio
Brad Wenstrup, Ohio
Chris Stewart, Utah
Rick Crawford, Arkansas
Elise Stefanik, New York
Will Hurd, Texas
John Ratcliffe, Texas
Paul Gosar, Arizona
Virginia Foxx, North Carolina
Thomas Massie, Kentucky
Mark Meadows, North Carolina
Jody Hice, Georgia
Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin
James Comer, Kentucky
Michael Cloud, Texas
Bob Gibbs, Ohio
Ralph Norman, South Carolina
Clay Higgins, Louisiana
Chip Roy, Texas
Carol Miller, West Virginia
Mark Green, Tennessee
Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota
W. Steube, Florida
"GYM' Jordan who ignored reports of sexual abuse....
Louie Gohmert, candidate for DUMBEST CONGRESSMAN, along with Devin Nunes with FAKE FAMILY FARM that employs illegal immigrants.....and others....
REPUBLICANS follow like sheep...
This invasion by the GOP makes absolutely no rational sense.
The preliminary impeachment inquiry is being conducted by the bi-partisan (24 Democrat members and 17 Republican members) House Judiciary Committee, whose job it is to oversee matters of Justice. This is the same committee that did the same job in the case of Nixon and Clinton. No-one is on trial, there are no cross-examinations, and committee members of any political affiliation have been free to ask whatever questions they wished, whenever they wished, right from the start. No vote was taken this time or on the other two occasions, because there's no need or requirement for a vote at this stage.
It's also a fact that most of the hearings are not "closed" and that proceedings are being live streamed and then archived on the Library of Congress website, which anyone can access. https://www.congress.gov/com.../video/house-judiciary/hsju00
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Current members of this committee (24 Democrats and 17 Republicans):
Democrat
- Jerrold Nadler, NY, Chair
- Zoe Lofgren, CA
- Sheila Jackson Lee, TX
- Steve Cohen, TN
- Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr., GA
- Theodore E. Deutch, FL
- Karen Bass, CA
- Cedric L. Richmond, LA
- Hakeem S. Jeffries, NY
- David N. Cicilline, RI
- Eric Swalwell, CA
- Ted Lieu, CA
- Jamie Raskin, MD
- Pramila Jayapal, WA
- Val Butler Demings, FL
- J. Luis Correa, CA
- Mary Gay Scanlon, PA
- Sylvia R. Garcia, TX
- Joe Neguse, CO
- Lucy McBath, GA
- Greg Stanton, AZ
- Madeleine Dean, PA
- Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, FL
- Veronica Escobar, TX
Republican
- Doug Collins, GA
- F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., WI
- Steve Chabot, OH
- Louie Gohmert, TX
- Jim Jordan, OH
- Ken Buck, CO
- John Ratcliffe, TX
- Martha Roby, AL
- Matt Gaetz, FL
- Mike Johnson, LA
- Andy Biggs, AZ
- Tom McClintock, CA
- Debbie Lesko, AZ
- Guy Reschenthaler, PA
- Ben Cline, VA
- Kelly Armstrong, ND
- W. Gregory Steube, FL
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American Reformers shared a link.
Republicans will break any law and any level of decency protecting Trump. How pathetic is that?!
A band of Republicans with a theatrical bent have stormed the room where the House Intelligence Committee is holding its impeachment hearings. Questioning of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper was halted and remains halted as Republicans, led by Florida representative Matt Gaetz, remain in the room eating pizza, according to CNN.
Update: This group of about 20 House Republicans is barging into the SCIF.
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The real reason the hearings have been halted may have more to do with security than with political showmanship, protocol break, and general rudeness. The Democrat-led committee meets in a secure room called a SCIF, or security compartmented information facility. As one former SCIF employee notes on Twitter, all who enter to hear testimony must leave their phone in a locker outside the room.
INSIDE THE ROOM: Rep. Connolly said two-dozen Republicans “stormed” into the SCIF, delaying the start of the Cooper deposition.
He said a few, including Rep. Gohmert, were “screaming,” and all brought phones into the secure SCIF room. (Rep. Conaway ended up collecting them.)
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That’s because cellphones are considered “high value” targets for foreign intelligence agents. “Foreign adversaries are constantly trying to figure out what goes on inside those rooms to figure out what the US knows about them, to out US high-level sources in their governments, to know what the US government knows and use it against us,” tweets Mieke Eoyang, who once worked in the same secure hearing room for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Eoyang explains that, after a security breach happens, a set of countermeasures must be completed to make sure the room hasn’t been compromised. That costs time and taxpayer money.
To ensure that the information was secure, the members should give over their electronic devices for scanning to ensure no malware was on them, and that they have not compromised the SCIF.
If they don't want to give them up, they should have checked them before entering.
So, to recap:
To disrupt testimony from a DOD official on how the President endangered national security for both the US and Ukraine by withholding military aid, the President's allies further endangered national security by storming the SCIF with their electronic devices.
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“. . . in “storming the SCIF” without observing the security protocols, Rep. Gaetz et al, endangered our national security and demonstrated they care more about a political stunt than protecting intelligence information,” Eoyang tweets. “I cannot emphasize enough how serious this is.”
The military also uses SCIFs for sensitive hearings. If someone enters a military SCIF with a potential listening device, it’s considered treason.
A POSTER:
After checking with each of the three committees, Judiciary, Oversight and Intelligence, and requesting confirmation of the committees the attendance sheets, The following Republican members of Congress have:
Been present at each of the impeachment inquiry hearings held before their respective committee.
Questioned every witness before their respective committee
Cross examined every witness appearing before the committee
Have had the exact same amount of time to question each witness as their Democrat counterpart
There is one explanation to the Republican claim of being shut out, THESE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE LIARS.
Doug Collins, Georgia
F. James Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin
Steve Chabot, Ohio
Louie Gohmert, Texas
Jim Jordan, Ohio
Ken Buck, Colorado
John Ratcliffe, Texas
Martha Roby, Alabama
Matt Gaetz, Florida
Mike Johnson, Louisiana
Andy Biggs, Arizona
Tom McClintock, California
Debbie Lesko, Arizona
Guy Reschenthaler
Ben Cline, Virginia
Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota
W. Gregory Steube, Florida
Devin Nunes, California
Mike Conaway, Texas
Michael Turner, Ohio
Brad Wenstrup, Ohio
Chris Stewart, Utah
Rick Crawford, Arkansas
Elise Stefanik, New York
Will Hurd, Texas
John Ratcliffe, Texas
Paul Gosar, Arizona
Virginia Foxx, North Carolina
Thomas Massie, Kentucky
Mark Meadows, North Carolina
Jody Hice, Georgia
Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin
James Comer, Kentucky
Michael Cloud, Texas
Bob Gibbs, Ohio
Ralph Norman, South Carolina
Clay Higgins, Louisiana
Chip Roy, Texas
Carol Miller, West Virginia
Mark Green, Tennessee
Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota
W. Steube, Florida
REPUBLICAN LIARS!
They knew that what they did was not only inappropriate but also illegal. Gaetz tried to step back from it by lying about who tweeted.
Despite numerous Republicans on the relevant committees overseeing the hearings along with their Democratic counterparts, Gaetz accused Democrats of obstruction for holding the hearing behind closed doors. He and other House Republicans proceeded to storm the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), which is reserved for classified hearings, brandishing their personal devices in an unequivocal violation of the rules protecting national security.
Trump had advance knowledge of and supported the demonstration, which now has police scouring the facility for potential national security breaches.
Developing: House GOP members storm a secure hearing room to interrupt witness testimony in the impeachment inquiry into @realDonaldTrump @RepMattGaetz led the charge. washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/…
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You may recall that Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) recently tried to infiltrate the closed-door testimony of White House Deputy Assistant Fiona Hill as she answered questions regarding President Donald Trump as part of the impeachment inquiry against him.
Gaetz is not on the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, or Oversight Committees, which are overseeing the inquiry, but he nevertheless believed he was entitled to be there. The House Parliamentarian disagreed, and Gaetz was ejected.
Now Gaetz is up to his old tricks. On Wednesday morning, Gaetz returned—and he brought two dozen other House Republicans with him.
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