Republicans have subpoenaed James Comey, he'll only agree to a public hearing - Polidicks

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/417977-comey-shares-news-of-house-gop-subpoena-happy-thanksgiving Former FBI Director James Comey revealed Thursday that he has received a subpoena from House Republicans to testify on Capitol Hill, but said he would refuse to do so unless it is a public hearing. “Happy Thanksgiving. Got a subpoena from House Republicans. I’m still happy to sit in the light and answer all questions. But I will resist a 'closed door' thing because I’ve seen enough of their selective leaking and distortion," Comey tweeted. "Let’s have a hearing and invite everyone to see,” he added. Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) was planning to subpoena Comey to testify on Capitol Hill before Democrats take control of the committee in January. The GOP chairman last week provided notice to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), the top Democrat on the panel and presumed incoming chairman, that he also intended to subpoena former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Republicans are keen to question Comey over records he reportedly made of his private conversations with President Trump before he was fired in May 2017. During congressional testimony last year, the former FBI director said he kept records of such meetings because he felt the president inappropriately asked him to make a loyalty pledge while he was leading the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president has denied making such a request. Comey has also held that he did not disclose classified information when he shared some of the records' contents with a friend, Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman. Richman shared the information verbally with The New York Times, in what became a successful maneuver to prompt the appointment of a special counsel — Robert Mueller “It is unfortunate that the outgoing Majority is resorting to these tactics," Nadler said in a statement Friday. "Months ago, Director Comey and Attorney General Lynch both indicated their willingness to answer the Chairman’s questions voluntarily. My understanding is that the Republicans have had no contact with either the Director or the Attorney General since," he added, stating that the subpoenas are "coming out of the blue."

Thank you blessed Comey

I'd call this a kangaroo court but it's insulting to kangaroos, courts, and indeed kangaroo courts worldwide. The current Republican Party is a profound disgrace. The House Repubs were unwilling to subpoena any witness or person of interest that the Democrats wanted to talk to while running what was ultimately an expensive joke of an "investigation" thanks to Devin 'better red than losing' Nunes, but boy do they want to investigate Comey over and over to try and find something they can punish him over. Just like Republicans investigated Benghazi over and over just to try and find a reason to blame Hillary Clinton and came up with nothing. The Republicans are acting more like the British Empire with whom their nation fought a war of secession and independence than they're acting like Americans, who're supposed to be about democracy and freedom.

Man I wonder what it must feel like to have your party completely turn on you just because you said you'd uphold the rule of law rather than kowtow to the whims of the current president, even if those whims are illegal. No wonder Comey no longer considers himself a Republican, I'd drop my political party like it's hot too if they decided that I deserved to be in jail for saying that I won't break the law for them. Says a lot about how criminal the republican party is. I hope we start to see arrests in the spring, though I'm not sure if I should hold my breath.

The last one was a hoot and a half, this one sounds potentially even juicier. Bring it on!

he just has to stall till december 14th.

This sounds like a gritty Fallout franchise reboot where the ~whacky~ retro-futurism-physics-are-the-universe's-real-physics and half-serious tone are replaced with biting social commentary as you emerge from a Vault a pampered, dysfunctional young adult descended from a Trumpian family of elites in a wasteland occupied with the surviving underclass in a dystopian fallen civilization. I'd play it! (But not in real life, please please please oh please.)

Democratic Party pulls the exact same shit. Both sides should be ashamed.

What happens then? Congress goes into recess?

I mean that's basically the Enclave already. They knew the war was coming and retreated to an oil rig, taking with them top-shelf military equipment and top minds to keep developing it. They also went Full-Nazi raiding sealed Vaults for pure humans to enslave and conscript, meanwhile developing a chemical weapon that would kill anyone with radiation-altered DNA (literally everyone else).

who can argue with aaaallll that evidence

Oh christ, one of you guys again.

Lesser of two evils.

then tell me of the democratic equivalent to this. tell me of the democratic equivalent to trump, tell me of the democratic equivalent to brian kemp. prove you're right

Yeah, remember that time democrats tried to frame one certain incident for an entire term even when the person blamed was proven innocent?

Remember the time the democrats attacked the press and tried to get fox news' press credentials with a doctored video?

I tip my fedora to you fellow enlightened centrist.

ya they go into recess on the 14th or 11th hour budget negotiations

Ah yes the party championing civil rights is the same as the fascists how could I be so blind

Imagining this post coming from that avatar is perfect.

So let's say you were right (you aren't) and they do (they don't) two wrongs don't make a right just because "THE OTHER SIDE DOES IT TOO!!!!" doesn't mean we should continue to put up with such bullshit.