Liz Cheney to Nancy Pelosi: 'What did you know and when did you know it?'

Political analysts, particularly those on the right, were scratching their heads when Nancy Pelosi announced last week the Democrats were beginning a formal impeachment inquiry against the President. The whistleblower’s complaint hadn’t been released to Congress. The transcript of the call in question was scheduled to be released the next day. It all seemed very premature, especially considering how she has slow-played impeachment for months as many in her caucus complained.
Why launch before the information was out? Could it be that the information as already out, that she and others in her caucus had already seen what they needed to see? That’s what Representative Liz Cheney wants to know following Pelosi’s interview on 60 Minutes last night.

.⁦@SpeakerPelosi⁩ said on 60 Minutes last night she knew the details of the classified Ukraine call before White House released transcript. This is starting to seem like a political set up. So, Madame Speaker, “what did you know and when did you know it?” pic.twitter.com/g5tlL5hBsX

— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) September 30, 2019

How did Pelosi have access to classified information that didn’t fall into her purview? I’ll address that question in a moment, but let’s answer a different question first. Why was she suddenly impatient after holding her caucus back for so long? What benefit was there to launching an inquiry a day before the release of the transcript, thus implicating herself as knowing more than she should have known?
There are a few possibilities, but the one that makes the most sense is that she knew when the transcript was released, it would be difficult to spin it as an impeachable offense. By launching the inquiry the day before, the question was no longer if she should launch but instead where the inquiry would go from there. It’s a shift she seems to believe was necessary – control the narrative ahead of the release so her own caucus wouldn’t have second thoughts when the nothingburger was unveiled.
Now, back to the important question, and the answer will tickle the conspiracy theorist in many of us. For her to have all the information she needed before it was released means the whistleblower’s complaint was already in the Democrats’ hands. For that to be, someone had to leak it to them, as it wasn’t until the next day that some members of Congress were allowed to read the complaint.
The concept of the “Deep State” has always troubled me as it implies there are forces in DC who are acting on behalf of their own interests outside of the law, using official channels that should not be open to them and possibly using unofficial channels that are not warranted by the Constitution or the law. I’ve been very reluctant over the years to embrace the conspiracy theories. It’s not that they don’t make sense given everything we’ve seen since the Clinton administration. It has always been a stretch for me to latch onto them since they seem more like paranoid delusions than a real cabal influencing the direction of the nation.
But the inexplicable changes, including the removal of the first-hand knowledge requirement, made to whistleblower complaint forms, which seem to have happened after the whistleblower filed, have opened my eyes to the possibility that the Deep State is real. Even if it’s just a handful of powerful people within the intelligence community, it’s hard to ignore the clear manipulation that’s being perpetrated here. What makes it even more conspicuous is the silence surrounding it all. The change to the whistleblower requirements should have been huge national news and drawn into question how the whistleblower was handled in the first place. But outside of coverage of a Tweet by the President, the media is silent on it.

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WHO CHANGED THE LONG STANDING WHISTLEBLOWER RULES JUST BEFORE SUBMITTAL OF THE FAKE WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT? DRAIN THE SWAMP!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019

Nancy Pelosi has essentially outed herself. Will mainstream media cover it? No. Can Liz Cheney and others get these questions out to enough people? Perhaps, but she’s going to need some help. This needs to be blasted far and wide.

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