Republican staff had already drafted a final report on Trump-Russia-- Not consult Dems

[riversedge]

Whow. Repugs keep sinking lower into the stinking sewer.


Dafna Linzer
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1h1 hour ago

from @mikememoli: News that Republican staff had already drafted a final report on Trump-Russia so quickly was likely to stun committee Democrats who expected to be consulted in the process.

Link to tweet

House Republicans say investigation found no evidence of Russia-Trump collusion

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-say-investigation-found-no-evidence-russia-trump-collusion-n855986



by Mike Memoli

WASHINGTON — House Republicans investigating foreign interference in the 2016 election say they have found no evidence that Russians colluded with any members of the Trump campaign and dispute a key finding from the intelligence community that Russia had developed a preference for the Republican nominee during the election.

Those are the initial conclusions of a 150-page report from GOP members of the House Intelligence Committee, who are formally bringing the panel’s year-long investigation to an end over the fierce objection of Democrats.

Lawmakers had been telegraphing that last week’s committee interview with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was likely to be the last of dozens conducted since the committee launched its Russia probe last March.

But the news that majority party staffers had already drafted a final report so quickly was likely to stun committee Democrats who expected to be consulted in the process.

Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, who has been leading the committee’s investigation since late last spring, said he would officially share the draft with Democrats on Tuesday after speaking to Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., about it on Monday. He said Democrats would have an opportunity to offer their input before the report is sent for declassification and ultimately public release, a process that could take at least a month.

After speaking with 73 witnesses and reviewing more than 300,000 pages of documents, Conaway said there was an urgent need to begin making their recommendations known to the public because Americans have already begun voting in midterm elections. And he denied that any of the initial conclusions by the GOP members represented an effort to undermine the work of the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller.

“We’re not doing anything. We’re not saying anything to ask him to stop. We’re not asking him to not investigate anything,” Conaway said. .....................

[Matthew28]

1. The entire party

is guilty of treason against the United states.

They're all working together to destroy this country.

[Matthew28]

3. The fact that they're trying to protect

Trump against all the evidence and guilty peas is a sign that they're enemies of the united states.

The republican party should be banned.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Yep and every person who supports them supports the same treason

[onenote]

2. My understanding is that the draft now goes to the Democrats for review and comment

before it is made public. The final report may be edited (I doubt it will be) and/or the Democrats may issue their own "minority" report.

Pretty standard operating procedure as I understand it.