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Little Children
Posted on: October 24, 2019 at 07:59:44 CT
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In the summer of 2015, the House Select Committee on Benghazi was still chasing conspiracy theories, holding a series of closed-door hearings with officials and witnesses. As part of the investigatory process, other members of Congress who were interested in learning more were excluded -- and when former House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) tried to crash a deposition, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) blocked him.
On this, Gowdy, who chaired the Benghazi panel, was correct. Not only did he take steps to prevent a political circus -- nearly every witness was interviewed behind closed doors -- but House rules only permit members to participate in depositions if they serve on the relevant committees. These are not spectator events.
More than four years later, Issa is no longer in Congress, but the number of far-right lawmakers eager to crash closed-door depositions has grown.
A group of House Republicans stormed a secure room where testimony is being heard in the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday, delaying the start of closed-door testimony by Laura Cooper, the top Pentagon official overseeing U.S. policy regarding Ukraine.
Led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., the GOP members -- who don't sit on the committees that are questioning witnesses in the impeachment inquiry -- entered the secure room, known as a SCIF, in the basement of the Capitol Visitor's Center.
These House Republicans know the rules, but they broke them anyway as part of a little stunt.
On this, Gowdy, who chaired the Benghazi panel, was correct. Not only did he take steps to prevent a political circus -- nearly every witness was interviewed behind closed doors -- but House rules only permit members to participate in depositions if they serve on the relevant committees. These are not spectator events.
More than four years later, Issa is no longer in Congress, but the number of far-right lawmakers eager to crash closed-door depositions has grown.
A group of House Republicans stormed a secure room where testimony is being heard in the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday, delaying the start of closed-door testimony by Laura Cooper, the top Pentagon official overseeing U.S. policy regarding Ukraine.
Led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., the GOP members -- who don't sit on the committees that are questioning witnesses in the impeachment inquiry -- entered the secure room, known as a SCIF, in the basement of the Capitol Visitor's Center.
These House Republicans know the rules, but they broke them anyway as part of a little stunt.
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