Republicans recommend Charges Against Steele - Silence the whistleblowers

[ksoze]

WASHINGTON — More than a year after Republican leaders promised to investigate Russian interference in the presidential election, two influential Republicans on Friday made the first known congressional criminal referral in connection with the meddling — against one of the people who sought to expose it.

Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a senior committee member, told the Justice Department they had reason to believe that a former British spy, Christopher Steele, lied to federal authorities about his contacts with reporters regarding information in the dossier, and they urged the department to investigate. The committee is running one of three congressional investigations into Russian election meddling, and its inquiry has come to focus, in part, on Mr. Steele’s explosive dossier that purported to detail Russia’s interference and the Trump campaign’s complicity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/us/politics/christopher-steele-dossier-judiciary-committee.html

[atreides1]

1. Really?

Was this the same Judiciary Committee that confirmed a lying sack of shit, named Jeff Sessions? The Judiciary Committee has no f**king right to question the integrity of Mr. Steele...especially not after what they did!!!

Time for Grassley to have a stroke...

[duforsure]

2. That figures

While they funneled millions into their campaign funds from Russia, and Sessions, and all the others lied on all their security clearance forms to hide their Russian connections. Corruption running wild from the Republican party now.

[Renew Deal]

3. They want to eliminate him as a witness

[rusty fender]

4. How is it a crime for a

foreign national to lie to the FBI? Doesn't that law apply only to U.S. Citizens?

[misanthrope]

5. I can't believe anyone could be this politically obtuse

This could set them up to be eviscerated in the midterms.

[maxsolomon]

10. In what way?

Elections get decided on emotions, not rational considerations.

This is inside baseball stuff. It won't stick in the memory of Low-Info Voters.

[renate]

6. do you think they're aware of how desperate this looks, and are doing it anyway?

Or do they really think this will persuade any but the 35%?

[uponit7771]

8. That's all they're trying to hold on to at this point, they will use the 35% to start violence in DC

... because that's about all they have now

[demmiblue]

7. Wow... K&R!

[Guilded Lilly]

9. They arent fooling anyone with a brain...

The Republican way of life: Point the finger elsewhere when you are the guilty one(s)

[marble falls]

11. To Chuck Grassley......

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahhahahahahhhahahahhah.....

Stop it, you're killing me!

They're witness tampering through intimidation, arrest him and his little dog Lindsey, too. The former head of MI-6 has said he believes the report to be "substantially true".


'Dirty dosier' on Donald Trump is probably credible, says former MI6 boss

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/13/dirty-dossier-donald-trump-probably-credible-says-former-mi6/

A dossier of embarrassing allegations about Donald Trump produced by a former British spy "probably" has "some credibility", the ex-head of MI6 has said.

[Skittles]

12. your tax dollars at work

[Progressive dog]

13. Not surprising

Authoritarians always go after purveyors of truth and justice. Some of them, like their psychopathic leader, would like to just kill them.