Our Next Intelligence Committee Chairman?
Ruth Marcus has an excellent column in the Washington Post on Nancy Pelosi's apparent determination to make Alcee Hastings chairman of the Intelligence Committee if Democrats win a majority in the House. Hastings, as you surely know by now, was the federal judge who was impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate and removed from office for bribery. The House and Senate at that time had Democratic majorities; one of the managers of the impeachment in the Senate was, as I recall, John Conyers, now in line to be chairman of the Judiciary Committee in a Democratic House. Marcus covered the Hastings impeachment and Senate trial and so knows more about the case than most of us. Read her concluding paragraphs:
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