The Horowitz testimony is resuming. I'm starting a new thread. The first one was here:https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1009073734324498432 …
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Now GOWDY is trying to eliminate intent from Espionage Act. He tries to get Horowitz to claim no criminals announce intent. Horowitz says sometimes they do on TV. (Cough, like Trump)
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Massie making much of Page coached Strzok on how to commit immoral behavior.
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Jordan claiming that this is biggest turnover. Except not all departures are IG related, and there are precedents (thinking GSA and Interior).
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Raskin calls Strzok-Page sophomoric, says they're now more famous than Bonnie and Clyde and Romeo and Juliet.
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Horowitz makes a bid to expand DOJ IG authority wrt text release.
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Meadows now focusing on why Strzok went to electronic surveillance guy. Umm. The Russians were wiretapped. Are the Republicans now upset that FBI wiretapped Russians? He's LITERALLY bitching abt US responding to foreign attack.
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Horowitz's comment abt whether Comey lied was more measured than his last statement.
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Swalwell now making the most of HJC focusing on Hillary's emails instead of family separation. "We're the one committee in Congress that is not helpless to act when families are being ripped apart."
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Goodlatte VERY sensitive to this attack that his committee is not doing anything about family separation. So seems Meadows.
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DeSantis, the Republican most easily shown to have benefitted from Russian hack, now attacking Russian investigation.
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When all is said and done we're going to learn Peter Strzok was ALWAYS asking to use more aggressive authorities and being denied.
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Plaskett clarifying answers to Meadows. Gets him to correct that if WH controlling RU investigation would be to hack and leak.
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Plaskett running down the implications of Meadows' comments. She points out many of the Republicans had "a bias" against Trump before he was elected.
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Walker now outraged that Lisa Page called her boss by his first name.
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Horowitz says "There is [the corrects himself] are investigations into [leaks]"
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Now Cicilline now trying to get Horowitz to agree that Trump has lied abt Horowitz' investigation.
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Cicilline now laying out that how Gowdy and Goodlatte both applauded the Comey decision in notifying Congress. Gowdy responds by pretending that Jason Chaffetz didn't release that notice.
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Ratcliffe now suggesting that Trump, as subject of RU investigation, had reason to be concerned about Comey. Except he wasn't a subject of the investigation at that point.
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Ratcliffe just made the case that Republicans should shut the fuck up abt Hillary, but he doesn't know that.
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I have to say this hearing is not QUITE the shit show I expected. That's kind of creepy. cc:
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