Scalise Asks Media: ‘Why Aren’t You…Allowed to Go Into an Unclassified Hearing?’

[Right_in_Virginia]

Scalise Asks Media: ‘Why Aren’t You…Allowed to Go Into an Unclassified Hearing?’
CNS News, Oct 25, 2019

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says his impeachment inquiry hearing is not classified, so why won’t he allow the media to see what’s going on in it, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) asked reporters after he attempted to enter Schiff’s secretive, closed-door proceeding on Wednesday.

Both they and members of Congress should be allowed into the hearing, Scalise told reporters:

“As soon as we went into the room, Adam Schiff hadn’t even started the hearing – which, by the way, Schiff pointed out himself was not a classified hearing.

“So, again, it begs the question: why aren’t members of Congress allowed to come into an unclassified hearing dealing with impeachment of the president?

“Why aren’t you, as the press, allowed to go into an unclassified hearing to find out what’s really going on?”

In fact, “Everybody ought to be able to see what’s going on in this inquiry – including member of Congress and the press,” Scalise added:


More:  https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/scalise-asks-media-why-arent-you-allowed-go-unclassified-hearing

[Right_in_Virginia]

I'd love to have Jeff "Democracy Dies in Darkness" Bezos publically answer Scalise's question.   

[skeeter]

I'll assume Rep Scalise knows full well the answer to this question.

The spectacle of the media chiding republicans for trying to open to public view a secret hearing that aims to impeach the leader of the free world, instead of demanding access themselves so they can do their duty as 'watchdogs of the republic', makes the head spin.