Not sure how Lindsay thinks the Senate Judiciary fits into an impeachment inquiry (it doesn’t)

“If the whistleblower’s allegations are turned into an impeachment article”

I miss Jade Helm

Lets’ recap, shall we?

Well if your point of view is that you can’t trust anybody because the Treasury cuts their checks, I can see where you might opt to break the law in order to get your story out. But that is your decision, and the risks of legal consequences are something you voluntarily accept. And, getting back to the article, you…

“The long and the short ofi t seems the be that while the House has some limited powers spelled out in the Constitution, there’s fuck all they can do in practice.”

My understanding is that I.G. Offices are independent entities assigned to each Federal agency. Their entire purpose is to independently investigate any malfeasance / misconduct, etc. that agency may occur within that agency. The Agency itself has no control over and cannot interfere with such an investigation. Once…

At least the person was inconvenienced — admittedly not a tortuous punishment, but still better than doing nothing at all.

I mean, it was a rhetorical question, not a literal one, the entire point being he made a justifiable choice,

I love this “I’m hearing ...” bullshit from Trump.

not sure anyone was arguing otherwise.

I’m not sure what your point is.

The problem is that the last time Congress did this was back in 1935, and trying to arrest someone like the Secretary of the Treasury would leave the Democrats in completely uncharted waters.

“Snowden punked out.” What was he supposed to do?

And they know they’re good people, the salt of the earth, true American patriots.

just throw papers with legalese on them and hope the problem goes away on its own

Did Ellsburg follow the process?

Rudi may want to jump in and tell his client to stop incriminating himself.

They’re not going to stay in their swing district seats if they fail to do the thing they were voted to do.