O BOY.....Trump administration orders ambassador not to appear at House impeachment probe deposition

the subpoena has no force. Both the dem and repub must vote on the authorization of the subpoena to force or compel under penalty.

I don't blame him.

Why should he cooperate with a witch hunt.

The verdict in already in as far as the dems are concerned.

That’s not your call.

It’s called checks and balances.

If he’s innocent then he would cooperate instead of obstructing justice

:Imright:

why would they do that unless they got something to hide obviously comes hiding something.

They are slowing the Dems so Barr can begin arrests.

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr has said he is reviewing the origins of the Russia investigation. As part of the review, Barr met recently with officials in Italy, where in 2016 a Trump campaign adviser met Joseph Mifsud, a professor whose actions figured prominently into the FBI’s rationale for opening the Russia inquiry.

President Donald Trump and some of his allies have asserted without evidence that a cabal of U.S. officials — the so-called deep state — embarked on a broad operation to thwart Trump’s campaign. The conspiracy theory remains unsubstantiated, and the Justice Department has not explained why Barr feels the allegations merit a review, though he would need to run down all leads if he was to conduct a thorough audit.

Who is Joseph Mifsud?

Mifsud was a professor at the London Academy of Diplomacy who also spent time as a political science faculty member at Link Campus University, a school in Rome.

Some of the president’s allies have pushed an unfounded theory that the Maltese-born Mifsud is a Western intelligence agent possibly under the control of the FBI or CIA whom deep state officials dispatched as a counterintelligence trap for the Trump campaign.

What did he tell the Trump campaign?

Mifsud and Papadopoulos first met in March 2016 in Italy. The next month, after Mifsud had traveled to Moscow, they met again in London, where Mifsud revealed that the Russians possessed information that could damage Clinton.

Why are these theories improbable?

Mifsud worked for neither the FBI nor the CIA, former U.S. officials said. If he had been an FBI informant, prosecutors could have easily found and questioned him. If Mifsud was working for the CIA, the agency would have had an obligation to tell the FBI as it investigated Papadopoulos.

So to believe the conspiracy that Mifsud was secretly working for the CIA is to believe that either the intelligence community withheld from prosecutors that he was one of their agents or that prosecutors conspired to deceive federal courts.

To believe that another Western government secretly employed Mifsud as part of a plot against the president is to believe that an elaborate conspiracy entirely eluded the special counsel’s office in its exhaustive investigation, which included more than 2,800 subpoenas, nearly 500 search warrants, 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence and interviews of about 500 witnesses.

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Barr seems like a guy committed to his President and willing to uncover any conspiracy if it exists.

It's not obstructing justice the whole fucking show is rigged.

That’s your OPINION

:dude:

I am FOR Trump.

I am also FOR the law.

IF they want to impeach, they need to do it right. Which means hold a vote. IF they can prove wrongdoing, then he SHOULD be impeached. Using the proper procedure.

But if they can't they need to sit down and shut the f..k up.

Until they do it right, I'd say he's more than entitled to throw as many wrenches as he can into their machinery.

That’s not your call.

It’s called checks and balances.

If he’s innocent then he would cooperate instead of obstructing justice

:Imright:

Executive privilege and separation of powers. Congress could subpoena every move the President makes. The executive has to fight back. Congress is equal and not above the President. Schiff and Pelosi are not “The Congress”.

Congressional power rests in laws voted upon and approved by the entire body of congress, not just the Nancy show.

They are slowing the Dems so Barr can be arrested.

:shakeit:

GOOD

If President Trump committed a high crime or misdemeanor then an official impeachment should be voted on now.

Due process is being circumvented by this drawn out secret testimony hearing.

Most people I have talked to on the impeachment scam see it for what it is and will not agree to whatever the orchestrators "find" or push thru politically (in the House at least).

We have a (50-state) house divided in this country.

I can't foresee how the US will remain as a unified 50-state country or as a centralized political entity (by 2028-2030, eg), given this increasingly unresolvable division.

Balkanization time.

It's not obstructing justice the whole fucking show is rigged.

It's A Kangaroo Court of the Absurd.

A theatrical power-grab psy-op.

looks like hes got something to hide

I have nothing nice to say to you so I am leaving.

If President Trump committed a high crime or misdemeanor then an official impeachment should be voted on now.

Due process is being circumvented by this drawn out secret testimony hearing.