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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,033 posts)
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 09:54 PM Jan 2019

House chairman threatens Nielsen with subpoena if she doesn't testify

A key Democratic House chairman is threatening to issue a subpoena to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen if she doesn’t appear before the House homeland security panel before the end of February.

“I hope she sees the value in talking to the committee of jurisdiction for her agency,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. “But if it comes to the fact that we can’t get [her testimony] any other way, it would not be a problem for me to do it.”

Thompson’s subpoena threat comes a day after he sent a strongly worded letter to Nielsen, calling her refusal to testify before the panel on Feb. 6 “unreasonable,” “unacceptable,” and “outrageous.”

Tyler Houlton, a spokesman for Nielsen, called Thompson’s letter “misleading” and said the department proposed alternative dates for a hearing, which Thompson initially scheduled for next week.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-chairman-threatens-nielsen-with-subpoena-if-she-doesnt-testify/ar-BBSYnKg?li=BBnb7Kz

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House chairman threatens Nielsen with subpoena if she doesn't testify (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 OP
Why give her until the end of February? manor321 Jan 2019 #1
I predict that a ton of subpoenas will be issued then ignored BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #2
 

manor321

(3,344 posts)
1. Why give her until the end of February?
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:09 PM
Jan 2019

They're just going to fight the subpoena and delay, delay, delay anyway. Dems should have issued a subpoena with the first invitation.

BigmanPigman

(51,609 posts)
2. I predict that a ton of subpoenas will be issued then ignored
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:09 PM
Jan 2019

by the GOP. I guess the SCOTUS will have to deal with these criminals now. Too bad the SCOTUS has a perjurer on it now. I hope they can get rid of Kavanaugh too. A SCOTUS is not allowed to be perjurer himself, is he?

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