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    From Stuart Fowler@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 23 10:57:34 2025
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    House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday he would not hesitate to bring
    former President Barack Obama before a congressional committee to
    testify on the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation by his administration.

    Johnson (R-La.) called recent revelations by Director of National
    Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard “deeply problematic” and suggested that Obama’s status as a former president wouldn’t shield him from receiving
    a subpoena, should lawmakers deem it necessary.

    “We have no concern about that. If it’s uncomfortable for him, he shouldn’t have been involved in overseeing this, which is what it
    appears to us has happened,” Johnson told Christian Broadcasting Network commentator David Brody.

    Presidential testimony before Congress is rarely sought and and requests
    are often challenged due to separation-of-powers concerns.

    The two most recent former presidents to appear before Congress were
    Harry Truman in 1955 and Gerald Ford in 1983.

    “So those are very serious allegations with very serious implications,
    but we’re going to have very serious people working on it, and we will
    get the answers.”

    The House speaker also said that “of course” Republicans will consider pursuing testimony from other Obama administration figures, such as
    former Attorney General Eric Holder and former CIA Director John
    Brennan.

    “I think we have a responsibility to follow the truth where it leads and
    to do it in an unbiased fashion,” the speaker said.

    https://nypost.com/2025/07/22/us-news/mike-johnson-willing-to-bring-obama -before-congress-over-trump-russia-investigation/

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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@21:1/5 to Stuart Fowler on Wed Jul 23 06:27:05 2025
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    Stuart Fowler wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

    House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday he would not hesitate to bring
    former President Barack Obama before a congressional committee to
    testify on the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation by his administration.

    Benghazi-style "investigations" all over again.

    Hunter-Biden-style "investigations" all over again.

    Anything to distract from the Crimer-in-Chief.

    --
    What we need in this country, instead of Daylight Savings Time, which nobody really understands anyway, is a new concept called Weekday Morning Time, whereby at 7 a.m. every weekday we go into a space-launch-style "hold" for
    two to three hours, during which it just remains 7 a.m. This way we could
    all wake up via a civilized gradual process of stretching and belching and scratching, and it would still be only 7 a.m. when we were ready to actually emerge from bed.
    -- Dave Barry, "$#$%#^%!^%&@%@!"

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