Republicans Delete Reference To FBI Informant From Impeachment Interview Request Letter

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Feb 21, 2024, 09:49 AM EST


WASHINGTON — Republicans deleted a reference to a discredited FBI informant in a letter they sent on Tuesday to a potential witness in their impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.

Republican interview request letters typically spell out the basis for their investigation, including with a paragraph describing a credible confidential human source’s conversations with a Ukrainian gas company executive about bribing Biden.

The Justice Department last week said the informant, a U.S. citizen named Alexander Smirnov, made up the allegation, and now Republicans appear to be striking any mention of it from their impeachment correspondence.

On Tuesday, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) included the paragraph about the informant in an interview request letter to former State Department official Amos Hochstein. An hour later, according to a Democratic House aide, the chairman sent another version of the same letter, but without the paragraph about the informant. HuffPost reviewed both versions of the document. An aide to the impeachment inquiry said the letter had been drafted prior to the indictment and that the request still stands.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-impeachment-alexander-smirnov_n_65d566cde4b0cc1f2f7a01b3

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Keystone Kops.

[Beartracks]

1. Their whole impeachment theater is based on wishful thinking and fantasy.

The lying informant only offered a veneer of legitimacy, right up until he didn't.

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[Walleye]

4. Seems like that's what their whole party is based on anymore

[Beartracks]

7. Sadly, it's the basis for all their policies and priorities, at state or national level.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. We must rewrite history to show that history was never rewritten...

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
― George Orwell, 1984

[Walleye]

5. "The future is there for anyone to change or so it seems

But it’s easier sometimes to change the past” Jackson Browne I think

[The Roux Comes First]

6. Great Musical Reference!

[gab13by13]

3. The over 5 year long Hunter Biden investigation needs investigated

for election interference.

[FakeNoose]

10. It's the new "Benghazi" ... until something else comes along

[Bayard]

8. Snorf!

[dchill]

9. And yet, "...the request still stands."

We're through the looking glass here, people.

[riversedge]

11. So, it "Smirnov who?" is how Repugs will deal with their lies!!--and the medi also I presume!! damn.

[nuxvomica]

12. When will someone rightly call this a "fishing expedition"?

But this is a fishing expedition where they expect to catch swordfish in a mountain stream. It's all because they are sure Biden is corrupt and there must be some evidence of it somewhere because they think everyone is corrupt. After all, they are corrupt and all their associates are corrupt so it must be that everyone is.

[Biophilic]

15. No, I doubt most or any of them think Biden is corrupt.

But they think it’s a great show and, besides his age, it’s the only show they have. If they weren’t so evil and corrupt I’d feel sorry for them.

[2naSalit]

13. Either they are...

Really fucking stoopid stooges or they are really sure they have this election in the bag with a steal of any kind but they are sure they will be taking over. Or both.

[Turbineguy]

14. Putin should look for new stooges

The republicans are not reliable partners in sabotaging the US. They are just too incompetent.

[Biophilic]

16. Unfortunately, they seem to be doing a pretty decent job.

[cstanleytech]

19. Well if I was in Putin's shoes I would look at grooming the owners of iHeartRadio, Fox News and other such companies.

Assuming of course he hasn't already recruited them as Russian assets though he might have already accomplished that given their actions over the past few decades.

[KPN]

17. Perfect analogy that video!

[ificandream]

18. They'll just pretend Smirnoff doesn't exist and go ahead with their phony investigation.

[live love laugh]

20. "U.S. citizen" Smirnov .... Rigghhhht

Hope somebody looks into whether he also lived in Trump Tower aka the US home base for Russian Intelligence assets,