This headline greeted me today:
Dems won’t embrace hardball GOP tactic to force Mueller report release
This is the tactic used by Nunes to release his fraudulent memo containing classified information.
Adam Schiff and other Democrats were asked whether they would use it to release all or part of the Mueller Report. He and others said no:
"That provision was so badly abused in the last Congress by the pushing out of false and misleading information that that's not a road we want to go down," said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
Despite my wanting them to pull out all stops to get the Report, I think I agree, and no one can accuse Schiff of not being aggressive enough.
But it’s yet another illustration of How Asymmetric Politics Inherently Harms Democrats, my diary on March 13. What do you do when the other side plays by rules you can’t follow?
In this case, I have some questions about whether they’re even able to do what Nunes did: e.g., Nunes already had the information, and Trump permitted him to use it — Not the case here.
But assuming they could at some point, should the Dems use Nunes’ tactic?