Senate intelligence committee to question Trump team on links with Russia

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/13/senate-intelligence-committee-trump-aides-russia-links
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Chairman says panel will use ‘subpoenas if necessary’ to force testimony
Moscow accused of collusion with Trump team and of cyber-crimes

The Senate intelligence committee plans to interview senior figures in the incoming Trump administration as part of its inquiry into alleged Russian hacking during the US election, its chairman said on Friday.

The announcement, one week before Donald Trump assumes the presidency, comes amid a bitter row between him and the US intelligence agencies he will soon lead.
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Only yesterday the committee chairman Richard Burr, a Republican, had told reporters that connections between the president-elect and Moscow would be outside the remit of his committee’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s alleged attempts to influence the election through hacking and other cyberattacks.

But Burr – in a statement issued jointly with the panel’s top Democrat, Mark Warner – said the committee would use “subpoenas if necessary” to force Trump’s team, as well as officials from the Obama administration, to testify.

[blue neen]

1. It's about bleeping time.

Geez.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Glad they are doing this. Every single person who works for Trump and Mr. Trump

will of course lie and not tell the truth, at all, about anything.

And if anything were to happen, Trump would pardon them.

No, we had our chance to avoid what is clearly a nation ending moment and too many of us were having vapors over a private server.

[malaise]

3. I still can't process this mess

Wake me up from this nightmare

[edhopper]

4. will there be any penalty

for perjury?