Senator accuses GOP of using secretive intel hearings to hide Trumps Russia contacts

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Appearing on All In with Chris Hayes, senior Senate leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) accused Republicans of using the secretive House and Senate Intelligence committees to probe Russian involvement within the Trump administration in an effort to cover-up their findings.

Speaking with MSNBC host Hayes, Durbin blasted GOP leaders, including former House Oversight chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), for their sudden interest in having Trump investigated — but on their terms.

“Let’s get to the beginning here,” Durbin explained. “Why did they choose the intelligence committees for this investigation? There’s a lot of reasons but one of them is they meet behind closed doors, the public can’t see what is happening, you don’t know what witnesses are being called, there’s no effort or opportunity to test credibility. And if they ever produce a report in some distant time, it’s going to be classified.”

“Isn’t it interesting that Darrell Issa, who couldn’t hold himself back from having weeks and months and years of public investigations of the Obama administration now doesn’t believe in congressional investigations but wants to have a special prosecutor.” Durbin continued. “Well, certainly we don’t want to see Attorney General Sessions who should recuse himself being the prosecutor. A special prosecutor may be in order. but why have the Republicans, who couldn’t quit on emails and Benghazi decided now that no public hearing on this Russian involvement in our election is really warranted. What a hoot.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/senator-accuses-gop-of-using-secretive-intel-hearings-to-hide-trumps-russia-contacts/

[mahina]

1. The best outcome for rump is being cast as an evil

Anti-Americanmastermind

Otherwise he's a tool who was manipulated and used to instal Manafort, Tillerson, Mnuchin and Wills for Russia.

[MagickMuffin]

2. What A Hoot Indeed

Always that double standard with them!

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3. Oh, well. Rachel exposed all the Russian $$ laundering already.

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Too bad for the GOP.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Researched by Louise Mensch, Khanoisseur, James S. Henry, DU's David Cay Johnston & others

https://wearethisamericancarnage.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/the-matryoshka/

When attempting to navigate the web of Donald Trump’s business dealings and relationships with the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian mafia, however, a cast of questionable players is never more than 2 degrees of separation away from him or the Trump Organization. As we’ve covered extensively in previous posts, there is no doubt that Trump is financially beholden to Russian influence, which makes allegations surrounding his potential treason against the United States even more worrisome. Considering all link analysis here has been done using news media sources, one might question just how deep the rabbit hole goes using classified sources the US Intelligence Community is investigating currently.

https://www.dcreport.org/wilbur-ross-comes-to-d-c-with-a-long-and-profitable-history-of-russian-connections/?preview_id=944

Wilbur Ross Comes to D.C. With an Unexamined History of Russian Connections
Trump’s Choice for Commerce Secretary Holds a Top Post With a Mysterious, Russian-Controlled Cyprus Bank
By James S. Henry

In the midst of the Trump Administration’s many other Russian entanglements,[1] it turns out that Wilbur J. Ross, Jr., the billionaire American investor who is one of Donald Trump’s closest advisors on trade and economics, has direct financial ties to several leading oligarchs from Russia and the Former Soviet Union or FSU.

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