States GOP members of Congress mostly quiet on Russian hacking - Seattle Times

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One of 2016’s most incendiary political developments — accusations that Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election to aid Donald Trump — has drawn mostly silence from Washington state’s Republican members of Congress.
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That’s prompted a barrage of outraged statements and calls for investigations from congressional Democrats. They’ve been joined by a few prominent Republicans, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who have demanded a robust congressional probe via appointment of a special, bipartisan select committee.

But Washington’s four Republican members of the U.S. House, like most of their GOP colleagues, so far have not joined such calls.

In recent weeks, they’ve left Russia unmentioned while sending news releases and taking to social media to comment on subjects ranging from high-school football to Hanukkah, Snake River dams and a controversial United Nations resolution condemning the increase in Israeli settlements.
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U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Bellevue, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, slammed the “nonchalance” of Trump and most congressional Republicans.

“The silence of the Republicans on this is really rather damning,” Smith said in an interview. “If it wasn’t for the fact that part of the allegation was this was done to help elect Trump, you can bet that the Republicans would be all over malfeasance by Russia.”
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House Republicans did form a special select committee to probe the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans died. That panel spent two years investigating, trying to prove the culpability of then-Secretary of State and future Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. - Seattle Times

Reeps at work. Doing whatever it takes to get elected. Then making damned sure that government doesn't work, leaving us vulnerable yet again, just like they did in 2001.

Feel safe now rust-belt states, with your Russian appeasers in charge?

[Cha]

1. K&R, ffr! Thank you! Good on the Seattle TImes

[AmericanActivist]

2. And the GOP silence SPEAKS VOLUMES! Either they knew or they were involved or I

suppose they could be threatened and/or blackmailed but whatever the excuse is I find their silence bizarre, odd, strange, I mean it's the biggest deal in American politics and elections ever and yet the majority of GOP are silent. Hmmm. Why is that?

Sins of omission and commission no doubt.

[LenaBaby61]

3. I say ...

That most if not all in the GOP know what happened (cyber-hacking, etc.) and won't talk about it because they LOVE all of that power that they have, AND, and they've been told/warned via various channels by that ex-kgb spy--aka-- tRump's boy toy that they'll be blackmailed if so much as a peep about certain activities that they know OF as it relates to cyber-hacking/russia comes from their trembling, treasonous lips.

In other words:

[Achilleaze]

4. The silence is damning. Republicans are complicit in acts against America.

If they don't love America, Republicans should pack up and move to Siberia.

[uponit7771]

5. Yeap, the loudest thing about this hacking is how relative quite BOTH parties are !!!