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Is this the best Democrats can do?
by Karen Tumulty
June 12, 2019
The Democrats of the House Judiciary Committee would like you to think of their work as a second coming of the Watergate investigation. But what we’ve seen so far looks more like those tedious panels of squabbling pundits you can catch on cable television pretty much any night of the week.
Whether all of this leads to impeachment proceedings against President Trump, Americans deserve a better caliber of oversight than the performance we saw on Monday.
The Judiciary Committee’s hearing, ostensibly into lessons learned from the report of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, featured as its star witness John Dean, who first gained fame nearly a half-century ago as President Richard M. Nixon’s whistleblowing White House counsel. Dean warned: “History is repeating itself, and with a vengeance.â€
That he would say this was not exactly new information. Dean has made that point with some regularity in his current gig as a paid commentator on CNN. And as he himself acknowledged, he was not a “fact witness †with any particular inside knowledge to offer about President Trump’s doings.
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