“These are, after all, the same entities who insisted the North Koreans would not be able to launch a viable rocket for 3-5 years, …
that insisted Saddam Hussein was in possession of WMD, …
that there was no torture at Abu Ghraib prison, …
and that the government had no bulk data collection program, until Edward Snowden revealed otherwise.”
This has been a long time in coming.
Few people are as well positioned as Roger Stone to maul the political witch-hunters running the House hearings and their ridiculous Russia-gate charade they continue to flog, (unsuccessfully) to the American people.
He has called congressman Adam Schiff, the witch-hunter-in-chief, a ‘Schiff-head.’
A remarkable aspect of the hearings, is that the men conducting them, are too scared to make them public.
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So Stone did the next best thing, and made public his initial, (extensive), blistering remarks.
In his opening remarks, Stone blasted Schiff:
What is it you fear? Why do you oppose transparency? What is it you don’t want the public to know?
Definitely worth reading. Video is long and detailed but good for a minute or two to get a sense of where he is coming from. Excerpts of the juicier parts follow the video. (best parts in bold).
He lays bare the preposterousness, pomposity, and dishonesty of the whole sordid affair.
These are excerpts from the full statement:
I am most interested in correcting a number of falsehoods, misstatements, and misimpressions regarding allegations of collusion between Donald Trump, Trump associates, The Trump Campaign and the Russian state.
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I view this as a political proceeding because a number of members of this Committee have made irresponsible,…