What Thomas is really like

I admire everyone's ability to avoid politics on the board.

As an aside, the T&G has an article that an HC alum had a petition going to rescind Clarence’s honorary degree from the College. Not home now so can’t copy it.

Dean, please delete this thread.

The only committee member who substantively questioned Ms. Hutchinson was Liz Cheney.

A former Republican Congressman from Virginia, whose background was military intelligence and consulting for NoSuchAgency, and worked as a staff member to the Committee, said that he viewed Hutchinson's appearance as a "bridge" to the next two scheduled hearings.  He characterized Hutchinson's appearance as merely a "cluster bomb", and intimated that bigger bombs were yet to come.

I believe all the witnesses to date but one, whose party affiliation is unknown, have been Republicans.

I'll grant you this Committee is functioning like a grand jury, but that is more an unintended consequence of the independent bi-partisan commission being nixed, and McCarthy's flawed list of nominees.  Jim Jordan, for example, is a material witness to the events of January 6th.  Jordan has been subpoenaed by the Committee.  Trump now is furious at McCarthy for not putting any Republicans on the Committee.  

Ginni's situation is now complicated because Eastman is a target of a criminal investigation, and Mark Meadows may soon find himself in the same boat.  And she had on-going contact with both, post-election, insisting that the election was stolen from Trump, and imploring Meadows to do something about it.

   



 

You could try ignoring it

Adam Kinzinger is also on the committee, so no, she's not the only Republican. And in case you missed it, there were three other Republicans accepted by Pelosi but McCarthy thought it'd be more strategic to withdraw entirely so that he could feed people the line that it's too partisan (which you've clearly gobbled up).

What's so pathetic is that no matter what Trump is found to have done, long-standing conservatives like Cheney and Kinzinger are ostracized because they have the courage to actually stand up for their convictions and say publicly what their GOP colleagues will only say privately.

Yes, Adam Kitzinger, another longtime Trump critic handpicked by Pelosi, is on the committee (he announced he’s quitting Congress in November).

If Pelosi had accepted the original 5 (none long-standing Trump critics) offered by McCarthy it would have helped her overcome the Trump Russia Collusion Hoax baggage AND gain some credibility for the committee. But, she didn’t want those five.

PP,
     You've piqued my interest. Unless it violates some Crossports protocol, or your own preferences, do you mind if I ask who you are? 


                                                                                                                      Steve Dawley '74

Years ago, I was searching for the job title of someone who I had once worked with, and I found the answer on Wikileaks. And below his name and title was moi. I can't recall precisely what it was, but there was also some personally identifiable information for both of us.. These were classified State Dept. cables, but every cable from the USEmbassy Moscow was classified, --it was as if they used a standard template. (And once on Wikileaks, they were no longer classified.) I didn't work for the State Dept., and neither did he, but all communications between someone like me and Soviet officials went through the embassy.

Many months later, I decided to do a search by my name on WikiLeaks, and there I was, not once, or twice, but numerous times. Actually, one of the cables very recently proved to be quite helpful in reconstructing an address. I wanted the street address for an All-Union Soviet ministry that was once headquartered in Kharkiv. So Wiki has its benefits.

My security clearance has long expired, but I believe new / reissued clearances now ask you to list all bulletin boards / forums where one participates regularly. Should Crossports be described as genteel as the local garden club, without a single subversive, reactionary member.

But the real answers for hiding in anonymity is (1) my conviction that there is far too much data mining capability, and too much data mining, itself, and (2) I learned that I can do and accomplish more from working in the shadows, rather than the spotlight. Old habits are engrained.

I can't tell if you're being deliberately obtuse or just incapable of comprehending, but she only rejected two because they were SUBJECTS OF THE INVESTIGATION. Should a judge be allowed to preside over their own corruption trial? Of course not.

Even thought Cheney and Kinzinger don't "count" as republicans for Trump/hcpride because they have the audacity to think for themselves, does it matter to you that nearly every witness, including those who've described Trump's efforts to delay the counting and "find" more votes in spite of there being no evidence of fraud, are Republicans as well? Bill Barr doesn't count? The Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania Speakers of the House don't count?

So for you, anyone who criticizes Trump, or even just testifies honestly under oath about illegal things that Trump did, isn't really a Republican and is not to be taken seriously.

You're really telling on yourself here, dude.

Wise words. Ignore the troll.

Dude? Subjects of her one-sided 'investigation'? LOL  The public knows she assiduously worked to create a one-sided process (no doubt McCarthy's nominees would  have asked adversarial questions while probing witness testimony).

Which is why the lingering misgivings (to put it mildly) over her handling and orchestration of the Trump Russia Collusion hoax continue to loom over this  production. Bombshells(!)  and otherwise. And Adam Schiff's membership on the committee is just hysterical.

Of course there are fans of one-sided inquiries.  Clearly.