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The Kentucky senator was stopped from naming the CIA whistleblower.
During the Wednesday Senate impeachment trial of the president, GOP Senator Rand Paul sent a question to trial presiding officer Chief Justice John Roberts that mentioned the name of CIA informer Eric Ciaramella. Roberts would not permit the question to be raised.
Paul later publicly threatened to force the issue during the trial on Thursday.
Personally, we just wish Paul would, Jan Brady-like, just rise and shout, “Ciaramella! Ciaramella! Ciaramella!” to get this nonsense out of the way once and for all.
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Roberts is playing a dangerous game, censoring a member of the United States Senate. This is especially true as he knows there is absolutely no legal reason to do so. Federal law protects informers from retaliation in the workplace. It has no stipulations at all (not one, zilch, nada, zip) that mandate the anonymity of the informer.
This is a charade that has been promulgated by the Democrats to protect the complete and utter falsehood of the very basis of the whole impeachment drama. That the Chief Justice has bought into this fiction reminds observers of his past spineless attitudes when it came to Obamacare and other issues before the high court.
The generally conservative jurist seems to feel he has to throw the Left a bone now and then, lest he be dubbed a Republican and thus become fish food for the leftist media.
What he doesn’t get is that to be actually non-partisan would mean that he wouldn’t buy into any agitprop from either side. Not just favor the Left when the whim strikes him.
Ciaramella! Ciaramella! Ciaramella! Sorry, just felt like doing that again on general principle.
David Kamioner
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