"Select Committee on January 6th" Is Above the Law and Beyond Review
By Jim Thompson | Jan 24, 2022 5:30 PM ET
In the 1950s a series of Congressional committees were formed with the ostensible goal to root out communists in the United States. Sen. Joe McCarthy became the face of the effort and its inevitable lighting rod. The genesis of the hearings may be traced to McCarthy delivering a speech to a West Virginia woman’s club, and famously holding a piece of paper in his hand, declaring he had the names of 205 communists. In fact, there was no such list. It was theater.
During that decade several hearings were chaired by McCarthy on the Senate side and others chaired by House members. Each committee threw wide nets to fish for communists in and out of government. Certainly some communists were found and exposed, but for the most part those nets were undoubtedly un-American and in many cases illegal abuses of Congress’s legislative role. The committees were often star chambers with members and chairmen drunk on power.
Six decades later a new Congress, again drunk on power and motived with political animus, formed committees to investigate a president it loathed. Adam Schiff was the face of it. A detestable man was the poster-boy for an impeachment process in which he repeatedly claimed that he had “evidence” of Trump’s guilt. He had none. Willing media gave Schiff multiple forums to repeatedly lie, and he lied without consequence.
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