Ryan stops short of call for Russia probe

[deminks]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/paul-ryan-russia-hacking-probe-232484

Speaker Paul Ryan “rejects any politicization” of intelligence matters regarding Russia’s meddling in U.S. elections, his office said Sunday. But the Wisconsin Republican stopped short of calling for a congressional investigation into the CIA’s conclusion that Russia attempted to skew the election toward Donald Trump.

"Speaker Ryan has said for months that foreign intervention in our elections is unacceptable,” Ryan’s spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, said in a statement to POLITICO. “The speaker cannot comment on or characterize the content of classified briefings but he rejects any politicization of intelligence matters."

The statement puts Ryan in the middle of a brewing war between lawmakers who want Congress to conduct a full-fledged probe of Russia’s interference — and the president-elect and top Trump officials who’ve downplayed and even rejected the explosive findings.

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The speaker has taken a hard line on Russia in the past. At an early September news conference, just after Trump had defended Russia from accusations that it was meddling in the election, Ryan called Vladimir Putin “an aggressor that does not share our interests.”

Strong also noted in the statement that Ryan in September also “wrote to the states and urged them to enhance the cybersecurity of their election infrastructure.”

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He knew, too. He is one of the gang of 12. Add his name to the list of people to be investigated. Maybe he is reading Atlas Shrugged to find out what Ayn would do. Ryan shrugged.

[Dream Girl]

1. Maybe setting himself to step in as "acting president"

[Beartracks]

2. Isn't NOT calling for a probe politicizing it? n/t

[0rganism]

3. i think Ryan has his own agenda, distinct from Putin/Trump's

he wants to go along, because his interests (demolishing any aspect of the federal government aimed at helping the unrich) align with Putin/Trump's temporarily

he'll put on a little show of discontent that will amount to exactly bupkis.

[Abu Pepe]

4. Sold his country to the Russians for a chance to gut Social Security.

What a guy.

[katmondoo]

5. If he guts Social Security then he had better go into hiding to protect his life

[ladjf]

6. Ryan is a disingenuous moron. Never expect anything good for America from him.nt

[gratuitous]

7. The House oversight committees are booked solid with Benghazi and the Clinton Foundation

Our country being in the hip pocket of the former head of the KGB really doesn't rise to the level of concern for Speaker Ryan.

[BSdetect]

8. Yes, the demented ones will never stop dredging up distracting BS

[Achilleaze]

9. Since when has standing up for America against Russia ever been "political"?

...in the domestic sense?

Comrade Ryan and the RepubiSymps are hiding something dark and dangerous.