{"id":35371,"date":"2019-02-09T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35371"},"modified":"2019-02-09T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T01:42:08","slug":"whitaker-is-going-out-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35371","title":{"rendered":"Whitaker is going out with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am wondering if this thought has occurred to those critics of the nation&#8217;s acting attorney general&#8217;s performance in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Whitaker is a lame-duck acting AG. The president has nominated William Barr as the next permanent attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>What, then, does Whitaker have to lose by stonewalling the questions from Judiciary Committee Democrats who pressed him on whether he spoke with Donald Trump about the Russia probe?<\/p>\n<p>Whitaker is going to leave DOJ soon once Barr gets confirmed, which I expect the Senate to do in short order. I am wondering now if he decided to stick it in the Judiciary panel&#8217;s ear by refusing to answer simple, declarative questions.<\/p>\n<p>I also am wondering if Donald Trump suggested &#8212; or perhaps <em>ordered<\/em> &#8212; Whitaker to dummy up.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am wondering if this thought has occurred to those critics of the nation&#8217;s acting attorney general&#8217;s performance in front of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Matthew Whitaker is a lame-duck acting AG. The president has nominated William Barr as the next permanent attorney general. What, then, does Whitaker have to lose by stonewalling the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whitaker is going out with a bang<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8375,1414,1424,2181,8091,3688],"class_list":["post-35371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-acting-ag","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-house-judiciary-committee","tag-matthew-whitaker","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35372,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35371\/revisions\/35372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}