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Rational Security

The Cult-like Atmosphere Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The first witnesses testify publicly in the impeachment inquiry. A jury deliberates Roger Stone’s fate. And Turkey’s president Erdogan visits Washington.

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0:08.0

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0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:28.5

All right so I want to read for everyone my favorite line from the impeachment hearings on Wednesday.

0:29.6

This is from Ranking Member Devon Newness's opening statement. The witnesses deemed suitable for television by the Democrats were put through a closed-door audition process in a cult-like atmosphere in the basement of the capital where the Democrats

0:44.1

conducted secret depositions released a flood of misleading in one

0:48.0

said it leaks and later selectively released transcripts in a highly staged manner.

0:53.0

It was like a Masonic ritual.

0:55.0

What did you just imagine?

0:58.0

Bloodletting.

0:59.0

They're all like drinking blood out of goats

1:01.0

ors with like hoods and a pentagram with candles.

1:04.0

I just also want to say that Adam Schiff is many things and I suppose can be criticized for many things.

1:11.9

He is a most improbable cultlier.

1:14.5

I would not call him necessarily a charismatic force

1:17.0

in that regard.

1:18.2

I mean, never having been inside this gift myself,

1:20.6

I can't imagine that it looks like a Masonic temple.

1:23.0

I have been inside that sciff.

1:25.0

It's your basic conference room.

1:28.0

It's the big table and some walls and some chairs.

1:31.0

We were the witnesses like stripped naked

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