{"id":199176,"date":"2019-12-18T22:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/the-conservative-case-for-impeachment-and-removal.html"},"modified":"2019-12-18T22:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:20:18","slug":"the-conservative-case-for-impeachment-and-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/the-conservative-case-for-impeachment-and-removal.html","title":{"rendered":"The Conservative Case for Impeachment \u2014 and Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, Rosemary Collyer, presiding judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, issued a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">stinging rebuke<\/a> to the Bureau for its handling of the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s Russia ties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">\u201cThe frequency with which representations made by F.B.I. personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other F.B.I. applications is reliable,\u201d Collyer wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Collyer\u2019s decision should put paid to the notion that <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">this month\u2019s<\/a> report from Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general, is some kind of ringing vindication of the Russia investigation. Republicans like Devin Nunes were more right about the conduct of the investigation than many of its supporters, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">including me<\/a>, care to admit, even if the investigation itself was warranted. And Carter Page is owed an apology by anyone, including me, who cares for the presumption of innocence and objects to trial by media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">But now to impeachment: If conservatives are right to object to the abuse of power by F.B.I. agents, shouldn\u2019t they be far more alarmed at the abuse of investigatory and other powers for political ends by the president of the United States?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">According to the public transcript of Donald Trump\u2019s July 25 call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Trump said: \u201cThe server, they say Ukraine has it \u2026. I would like to have the attorney general call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/18\/opinion\/trump-impeachment-fbi.html?emc=rss&amp;partner=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Rosemary Collyer, presiding judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, issued a stinging rebuke to the Bureau for its handling of the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s Russia ties. \u201cThe frequency with which representations made by F.B.I. personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-199176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}