Pierce: Do Not F*ck with Sally Yates

[mcar]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54171/sally-yates-testify-house-intelligence/

Here's a tip for you youngsters of the gaming persuasion. If a woman sits down at your table and tells you she's a lawyer who likes to relax with a little poker, and introduces herself as Sally Yates, run like hell and don't stop until you get to the Arctic Circle. It seems that the administration tried to block Ms. Yates from testifying to the House Intelligence Committee about what she knows concerning contact between departed White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and various Russian entities...

So why did Nunes simply cancel the committee hearing instead? That's where Ms. Yates' poker skills come into play. As you can see from the correspondence, Yates and her legal team explained to the White House lawyers that they didn't accept that she was bound by any claim of privilege, and that she was going to testify anyway, damn the torpedoes. At which point, the White House, and its hapless Night Stalker Devin Nunes, folded like cheap suits and canceled the hearings entirely...

The administration really had no choice. They could let Yates testify, in which case anything could happen. Or they could go to court and stop her, and look even more like they're trying to bury what she knows. (Maybe they could have sent federal marshals into the committee room to stop her. That would've been great TV!) Or they could duck and let Nunes take this in the face, which is pretty much what they did, because it's always Someone Else's Fault with this bunch...

Somewhere out there is the independent counsel that we need to get to the bottom of this murk and mire. I hear Sally Yates might be looking for work.

[napi21]

1. I GUARANTEE Sally will get her message out if that's what she wants to do. I'm also thrilled that

she told the AH's she wasn't bound by any confidentiality! MAKE 'EM SQUIRM SALLY!

[wcmagumba]

2. I wonder if she will testify for the Senate committee?

They "say" everyone involved in Russia/drumph will be testifying. We'll see...

[mcar]

5. I bet she will

The Senate committee is a better bet, it appears.

[L. Coyote]

3. Trump administration sought to block Sally Yates from testifying to Congress on Russia

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#TrumpRussia 50 tweet MEGA-THREAD by Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson 54 tweet MEGA-THREAD: "Source E" is the Deep Throat

[mcar]

6. They can't go two days without creating a mess

Corrupt and incompetent.

[jmg257]

4. Nunes/committee invites her to testify. She agrees. The DOJ tells her she doesn't need

to check with them, but to check with the WH about "privilege".

The WH does not object to her testifying.

Nunes cancels the hearing.


Weird. But where is the poker playing analogy coming into it?

[MGKrebs]

12. Not sure, but I think she has a "trump" card.

[Pluvious]

25. Wrong game, for poker it's the Joker :)

[dgibby]

20. She called their bluff and they folded. n/t

[jmg257]

22. Who's bluff? Nunes? DOJ?

[GliderGuider]

27. The WH, and Nunes as a WH appendage. nt

[jmg257]

28. OK - so somewhere sometime, the WH told her she couldn't testify? They claimed privilege?

[GliderGuider]

31. They tested the waters.

But they folded before it became a major confrontation. In the poker analogy, there was only one round of betting as far as I can tell. They bet, she raised, they folded.

Weak sisters with a weak hand. Sad!

[jmg257]

32. I'm getting the analogy. What I have not seen is where the WH did all that.

Was there some meeting we (I) don't know about?

Was the bluff via the DOJ?

[MGKrebs]

40. So what is your point?

You are saying that the WH didn't resist her testimony?

[jmg257]

41. Yes - I am saying I do not see where the WH resisted her testimony. I did not see a statement, or

a letter, or a ?? where they were asserting privilege.

It is a key point in those ongoing story about Yates' testimony, yet I have not seen a source for that assertion.

Do you have one?

[MGKrebs]

43. Well if you are looking for a document,

then no.

But the DOJ (Jeff Sessions) throws up a couple of lame hurdles which Team Yates quickly overcomes and so the DOJ then defers to the WH. Coincidentally, WH minion Nunes cancels the testimony at that same moment.
Many would connect those dots.

[jmg257]

44. Yes - I do see those dots, the DOJ saying check with the WH, and Nunes doing whatever the hell

that was he did (cancel).

Thanks for the input!

[greenman3610]

7. a new generation of Democratic leaders is rising

out of this

Yates, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Jim Times

[TeamPooka]

8. During war promotions are given out on the battlefield as they're earned. That's what's happening

with us now.

[mcar]

9. It is exciting to see

[NBachers]

11. And Congressman Ted Lieu, of California's 33rd Congressional District- Really making his mark now.

[dalton99a]

19. Ted Lieu is a fantastic example - we need more direct and forceful messages against the regime.

[Cosmocat]

36. Two words - Maxine Waters

NO ONE is more forceful than her on 45.

[FakeNoose]

34. Al Franken belongs on that list also

New leadership - kicking butts and taking names.

[True Blue American]

37. YES!

[Demsrule86]

10. Great article.

Thanks for sharing...she looks tough in a quiet determined way.

[dchill]

13. K&R.

[Cha]

14. Thank you for this from Charlie Pierce on our hero, Sally Yates,

mcar!

[Gabi Hayes]

15. according to one of the paid Trumpsters on CNN panel shows, Yates is running for

governor of Alabama, IIRC. one of the treason states, anyway......

Lincoln's Big Mistake, as we in the north call what the pre-evolutionary revolutionaries call "The War of Northern Aggression"

[mcar]

16. I thought she was from Georgia?

[MGKrebs]

29. She is from Georgia.

There is speculation she might run for something here but that's all it is at this time.

[Gothmog]

17. I stand with Sally Yates

[The Wizard]

18. Will Trump set her up

for a Putin assassin?

[lastlib]

21. I'd bet she's on the list. Along with Preet Bharara.

(see your twenty and raise you a thousand..........)

[WinkyDink]

23. Sally Yates, HRC, Rachel M., Maxine, Elizabeth W.---It takes a village...of WOMEN!

[mcar]

26. Kirsten Gillibrand, Tammy Duckworth (and Baldwin), Kamala Harris

Our women Dems are the best!

[WinkyDink]

38. Gimme five!

[mcar]

39. Oh yeah!

[SunSeeker]

24. Sally Yates is a hero. We need her to run for office. nt

[William769]

30. A big K&R!

[tclambert]

33. She might have to testify in the case. How about Preet Bharara as Special Prosecutor instead?

[FakeNoose]

35. Preet Bharara would be ideal

I hope he gets a chance to do it.

[ismnotwasm]

42. K&R