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Originally Posted by 04kL4nD
Gee, why don't you ask the police why they isolate suspects when they're interrogating them BEFORE they testify in court?
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Impeachment is not a criminal charge, nor is it a civil court dispute. But like those court matters, impeachment requires investigation, evidence findings (or the lack of evidence), confidentiality, proof, and other things that are similar to court proceedings.
Like the courts, most of this stuff comes at the first stages of the proceedings, and since impeachment is a serious matter, investigations have to be conducted in confidentiality until something is proven to be valid or false.
Open proceedings can damage the validity or cloak the falsehoods. And if the information is sensitive, as it often is, could cause an innocent witness deep harm.
Those are the very same reasons why Grand Juries, which are called to determine if a crime has been committed, are always kept confidential and closed.
It is the House's constitutional responsibility to oversee the workings of our government and investigate any charges of wrongdoing within it. The House has always done this, so it has developed an effective and effecient set of rules these committees follow. Those rules were always approved by vote from the full House when they were written or changed.
The committees themselves are bi-partisan, so both parties always have representatives within them all.
Any investigation that's connected to impeachment will always distress one party and delight the other. So the rules are written to be fair for both parties and all individuals.
Trying to breach those rules won't stop the process. Once obligated a committee either has to find something or declare that there is nothing to be found. Confidentiality is equally beneficial and necessary for both. That's why it is mandated.
So forcing open the doors to a closed investigation is nothing but a waste of valuable time and energy. A needless and rude interruption of a vital political process, and a breach of the oath of office they have all sworn to uphold.
If nothing is found, everything stops right there. If something is found that is a valid reason for impeachment, then those proceedings will be fully open and will have the full participation, by mandate, of every member of Congress in both Houses.
And that's the time when Trump would need the support. It will also be the time when the Congress will have to act like responsible men and women in command of their faculties and ability to reason, not like a band of panicked sheep.
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