Opinion: Do Barr, Pompeo and Giuliani share a death wish? (via latimesopinion)
embroiled in the Trump-Ukraine affair, also has his eye on an End Times cleansing. “It is a never-ending struggle,” hePoets have envisioned death in thousands of ways. Clouds, worms, reunions, virgins and more. But Barr, Giuliani and Pompeo — each in the midst of a distinct moral crisis — may have a new one. Death as sweet, sweet liberation from congressional oversight.
But if these men are counting on death to end their sea of troubles, the House doesn’t intend to give them that chance. With every letter or subpoena, Congress is demanding that these men stop daydreaming about oblivion or ecstatic union with Jesus and do what’s right in the here and now. “Our inquiry includes an investigation of credible allegations that you acted as an agent of the president in a scheme to advance his personal political interests by abusing the power of the office of the president,” three Democratic House chairmen wrote inBarr, who has already been held in contempt of Congress for defying an earlier subpoena, has been hard at work in Ukraine, Italy, Australia and the U.K.
pursuing some cockamamie plan to show that the “deep state” is out to get Trump. He seems unlikely to break his pattern of cowardly silence about Trump’s obvious misconduct, but we’ll see.For his part, Pompeo, in a Tuesday letter to the chairmen of the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees said he felt bullied, and thus refused to authorize five State Department officials to testify before Congress on the Trump-Ukraine matter.
At least Pompeo, who has been nervous and hazy when discussing what he knows about Trump’s July “smoking gun” solicitation of Ukrainian help to smear his rival Joe Biden, finally came clean Wednesday.So Pompeo knows all. Nonetheless, Pompeo, Barr and Giuliani are still dodging their responsibilities. You’d think if they were right that Trump is blameless, and the call was as “perfect” and “beautiful” as the president says it was, they’d want to set the record straight for Congress.
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