The evidence is now clear that the WH and Nunes worked together to halt the Russia investigation:

[dixiegrrrrl]

The evidence is now clear that the White House and Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, have worked together to halt what was previously billed as a sweeping investigation of Russian interference in last year’s election. “We’ve been frozen,” Jim Himes, a Democratic representative from Connecticut who is a member of the Committee, said.

The freeze started after last Monday’s hearing, where James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, revealed that the F.B.I. has been investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia since last July. Comey also said that there was no evidence to support Trump’s tweets about being wiretapped.

Today, the House panel was scheduled to hear from three top officials who had served under the Obama Administration: Sally Yates, the former Deputy Attorney General, who briefly served as acting Attorney General, before being fired by President Trump; John Brennan, the former head of the C.I.A.; and James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence. But last week Nunes cancelled today’s hearing.

“The Monday hearing last week was, I’m sure, not to the White House’s liking,” said Himes. “Since Monday, I’m sorry to say, the chairman has ceased to be the chairman of an investigative committee and has been running interference for the Trump White House, canceling hearings.”

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-white-house-and-republicans-blew-up-the-house-russia-investigation?mbid=social_twitter

Happily, the MSM now has many pieces of the complicated story, whereas only a couple of weeks ago most of the story was being pushed by independent journalists on social media.

[Gabi Hayes]

1. lizza, New Yorker author, has been on CNN for a good bit of three hours tonight, offering

this POV very effectively

comic panel relief provided by Jack Kingston, as usual, who's taken over the CNN wingnut buffoon title from the late lamented double named blonde of the election.....not Kaleigh, she's still there, providing unending ammo for herself to regret some years down the road (providing, of course she has even the tiniest, atavistic vestige of a conscience)

which reminds me......most ironic book title in publishing history:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51PZGBLHgHL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

[Gabi Hayes]

2. my favorite airhead:

Scottie Nell Hughes



.......CNN hired Trump mega-supporter Scottie Nell Hughes one day after she appeared on the network and went to town defending a Trump tweet that was so widely seen as anti-Semitic that he deleted it. (Note: Her full-time hiring comes a month after we ran the headline, “CNN Literally Silences Donald Trump Supporter Scottie Nell Hughes.”)

http://www.mediaite.com/online/scottie-nell-hughes-announces-new-gig-at-cnn-in-most-ostentatious-way-possible/

you MUST watch the video that sums up her most fabulous career that culuminated, and ended, with her hiring last year

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. the plethora of "sexy" white blond women on Fox is a code

The neo nazis and KKK types and those who support them, know exactly what the blondies represent, and the showing of lots of legs is part of it.
skimpy dress, long blond hair, not too threatening to the male ego, and did I mention easily inter-changeable?

Meanwhile, we have brunette Rachel, whom I consider really sexy ( Look at that IQ!!!!)

[tblue37]

3. Tomi Lahren is the other mindless blonde, the one who got ditched. They cloned several

at the same time, I think.

[sharedvalues]

4. Great! CNN is key to reaching a wide swath of Americans

sadly, CNN is key.
We need a way to fix the for-profit media

[Gabi Hayes]

6. even AC360 has become a source of actual journalism lately, and Don Lemon, for

quite some time, has been very loathe to put up with the BS spouted by Zucker's lunatic hirelings

too bad they weren't more real during the primary/election farce. things might've been different

he's got swalwell on now, who's very actively pushing for nunes' recusal/ousting, basically calling him a yuuuuge liar

[Gabi Hayes]

14. almost every time Kingston opens his mouth, out pops something ludicrously idiotic:

He just decried the sad fact that, yes, indeed, politics is being played behind the scenes in the House Intelligence circus.

what INSIGHT!

just before he said that, his couterpart said that, despite Spicers' assurance that the WH wouldn't stand in the way of Yate's testifying, that what will most likely happen is that, when it's time to talk, the WH lawyers will intervene, claiming ExPriv, and sadly demur to them.

as soon as he finished this prediction, Kingston praised the WH for coming out in FAVOR of her testifying, and, by implication, asserting that she'll be allowed to talk, with WH abrogation at her back

Hy LARE E USSS!!!!!

[Amaryllis]

5. Not only WH and Nunes, but Ryan and Nunes; this is critical piece O'Donnell says most are missing

That Ryan is at the center of this scandal since he consulted with Nunes before he went to WH and is in it as deep as Nunes:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028865654

[Gabi Hayes]

7. no way ryan is going to replace nunes, unless the public outrcy becomes overwhelming.

he's tied in almost as deep as nunes, right?

so much swirling about, but is there audio of both him and nunes, among others, discussing 'nefrarious' subjects

[Amaryllis]

9. Exactly. That is point O'Donnell was making tonight, that Ryan is just as complicit as Nunes.

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Ryan not in almost as deep, but if anything, deeper since according to O'Donnell, Nunes took his marching orders from Ryan as explained in thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028865654

[Gabi Hayes]

10. this is the best I could find in my exhaustive five second search, but there is a more

recent discussion of ryan's dirty hands

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028671176

Paul Ryan & Republican Establishment Used Hacked Info From Russia Against Democrats:

[sharedvalues]

21. Ryan's done as a politician. Health care was/is his waterloo. Now just trying to save himself

Yes, Ryan's part of the coverup.

But he's done anyway. He's been exposed as a policy lightweight. I bet he gets defeated in the next election now that the whole nation knows about his granny-starving ways.

Either way, he goes down.

[Alice11111]

29. I hope so, but he &DT are cozying up again. A common enemy

Unites...that would be Dems, decent people, the poor, disabled, childen who don't have their own penthouse, etc.

[DeminPennswoods]

28. TPM called Nunes

... a "hapless goober"

[L. Coyote]

8. They are all in on Trump's plot to cyber-lynch Obama, a well coordinated tactic of the guilty, to

try to get the evidence thrown out by, in this case, claiming it is he ill-gotten fruit of a political tree.

Bottom line, blame the black guy.

[magicarpet]

23. Fruit from the poisoned tree - (tainted/toxic evidence) - - NT

[Alice11111]

30. Yeah, and fuck the facts

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Need Independent Counsel / Special Prosecutor. . nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. That has to come from the Justice Dept.

Not too sure it is up to the task these days.
Maybe there is another way, dunno.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Sessions can't make that decision now (recused) but I think loyalists are in 2nd & 3rd spots already

[napi21]

12. There are STILL two other investigations, the Senate & The FBI. You can be positive if WE see

through this scam, those guys do too. KEEP DIGGIN, Conman!

[Amaryllis]

13. Senate Intel joint presser with Burr and Warner tomorrow at 2:30 ET. We should know a lot more after

that. Warner said yesterday that he and Burr are working together really well now and he trusts Burr.

[Gabi Hayes]

15. what do they have on Burr? you know he came out at the very beginning by saying

there was no there there, at the behest of Rance Priebus, who basically told both Burr and Nunes to butt out, not that that's news around here

can't wait to see how the WH tries to torpedo the senate. will it be via McTurtle?

[Scruffy1]

18. There is usually a big difference between a politicians "speech' and his actions.

I think when the ship starts sinking you'll see Republicans fighting with the other rats to be first off the ship. They know their brand is already tarnished and will try to find a way to distance themselves from the party bosses before the next election. It will be hilarious to watch them try to rebrand themselves. We'll know when they start bucking Ryan and McConnell who I think are indictable. Of course I'm being optimistic, but I think after eight years of having control of the house they felt they could get away with anything and have pushed way beyond what the public will tolerate. the real problem is that their is no responsible leadership to replace these assholes.

[NBachers]

20. They'll be claiming "We cleaned house and righted the Ship of State while Democrats did nothing."

[sharedvalues]

22. That dog won't bark - GOP will be tarnished by their leaders

The GOP can say that but it ain't gonna fly.

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. AND treasury.

Treasury Dept. has been investigating Manafort for money laundering ( which will spill over on Trump) and a big break came today when the Cyprus Gov. gave the US Treasury a LOT of information they have on Manafort running money thru the Alpfa or Alpha or whatever bank it is in Cyprus. The one that Wilbur Ross is involved with.

It is a pretty well known suspicion that one of the reasons Trump has not revealed his business sources and income from other parts of the globe is that they involve people who are linked to money laundering and other nefarious deeds.
The hotel that just went bankrupt in Toronto, was "owned" by a guy whose father was in prison for money crimes.
(remember, Trump claims he does not own these building, he just leases his name, but in fact, he is part of the ownership)
Interesting thing that he business partners in Russia, in the USA, in Canada, both Toronto and Vancouver, all happen to be involved in money laundering.
Weird co-incidence

[SunSeeker]

16. K & R

[L. Coyote]

17. MoveOn.org Files Complaint Against Rep. Nunes for Violation of the Espionage Act

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/28/1648241/-MoveOn-org-Files-Complaint-Against-Rep-Nunes-for-Violation-of-the-Espionage-Act

.... MoveOn.org Campaign Director Jo Comerford said today, for Congress to stop all business and focus on the creation of an independent commission and the appointment of a special prosecutor. If not, the American people will never be able to trust that the Trump campaign did not engage in illegal collusion with a foreign government to sabotage a U.S. election. ....

[dixiegrrrrl]

37. Problem is, a Commission takes years

always seem to end in controversy over how factual and thorough they were.

We do not have that much time, too much damage can be done before then.

[world wide wally]

19. We are inundated with evidence...

The question is will TPTB pursue it?

[CousinIT]

24. So the investigation is essentially dead? n/t

[triron]

26. many investigations going on.

This is one. I think tremendous pressure will build on the repukes.
Americans (hopefully) won't stand for this BS.

[Blue_Roses]

32. No, if anything this shows the investigation is

hitting close to home. The House hearings are mainly for show. The FBI counterintelligence department is handling the real investigation, as Comey said last Monday.

[triron]

25. Yep, part of big time cover up

lots of folks could end up behind bars.

[furtheradu]

27. They worked together to TRY to halt it..

They may have slowed it down or complicated the process..but their piddly efforts only prove there ARE serious issues to investigate, & inspire US to keep up the pressure.

[UCmeNdc]

31. K&R