(04-04-2019 12:49 PM)SoMs Eagle Wrote: IT DOES NOT MATTER IF THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY TO DO IT!
What part of this does even the most political person here not get?
I haven't read the statute so I don't know the authority under which the committee chair has this authority, but I seriously doubt it's a criminal activity. If there were evidence of criminal activity, ALL SORTS of jurisdictions (including at least the entire committee) would have the ability to see the records.
ETA... I believe that absent some reasonable expectation of finding something, a judge
might rule that the chair is no longer entitled to see the records because he's signaled an inappropriate reason for the request. Had he said nothing, that argument would have failed.
Quote: (04-04-2019 12:51 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: What do you think is a joke? The highlighted portion?
Yes...the willingly portion. He was N E V E R going to release them. He gains nothing from it. And he's clearly not concerned about honesty.
To part one... okay... seems a silly retort though... He wasn't being asked to release them... but now knowing that they plan to request them, I suspect he has some grounds and would fight to keep them from seeing them anyway. He may or may not lose... but if they never mentioned it, he'd never be able to fight it. I don't think someone thinking there was a snowball's chance in hell to no chance at all is so far away from your opinion as to be noteworthy, but whatever. Now they've probably got a fight for something there wouldn't have been a fight over previously (like a FISA warrant before it's issued)
As to concern about honesty.... I expect more out of someone who routinely claims not to be a Democrat. It wouldn't be for the public NOR the head of this committee to determine the 'honesty' of his return. He has very reasonable and honest grounds for not wanting to release his records. The same as when Obama didn't release his grades. They are by law, not public information. HONESTY (or lack thereof) has nothing to do with it. At least unlike Obama, he never claimed to be putting forth the most transparent office ever. Obama was under no obligation to release his school records... but don't claim to be 'the most transparent ever' and then decline some really fairly meaningless requests for transparency.
If you want to question his transparency, that would be valid... but I think you'll find that the left would have issues no matter WHAT he did. Oh look, he released them, what a liar... Oh look he didn't, what a liar... and the right doesn't care about them.