Ryan: GOP will hold hearings on Clinton probe

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday evening that Republicans will hold hearings to learn more about the FBI's decision to not recommend criminal charges for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

"People have been convicted for far less," Ryan said during an interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox News's "The Kelly File," saying that he thought FBI director James Comey "was going to recommend prosecution" based on the FBI director's opening remarks in a press conference Tuesday.

Ryan said the FBI's decision not to recommend charges "underscores the belief that the Clintons live above the law."

Comey said that while there was evidence Clinton and her staff was "extremely careless" with classified information, "no reasonable prosecutor" would bring a case against her.


Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics?ocid=iehp

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I think what Paul Ryan really meant is the House Republicans have held hearings on matters with far less evidence of culpable conduct while ignoring far more egregious conduct that was committed by Republican Presidents. Hopefully, if the House Republicans hold such hearings, there is an examination of the millions of e-mails that were maintained on a parallel private server by Karl Rove in the Bush White House.

Of course, in other news, here is Ryan walking in lock step with Donald Trump again.

[kwassa]

1. Of course they will. At least through early November.

Benghazi hearings are finally over. How else can Hillary be continually smeared?

[larkrake]

5. They wont stop in November, they will draw it out, then the Foundation

it wont ever stop

[PSPS]

6. You're right. The Clintons have been dealing with this since their days in Arkansas.

[rtracey]

44. well

Well, it can stop if the democrats win the house. That puts Ryan out, that puts Democrats in charge of committees, etc.

[larkrake]

45. I'd love if we won both houses

[Maraya1969]

9. +1000 And using taxpayer money to fight her in the election

[liberalnarb]

30. They're gonna try to keep this alive as long as possible.

Hillary will be getting ready to leave office in eight years and they'll still be talking about it.

[LeftRant]

2. It's the only way to keep it in the news since no one outside the RW bubble will care by next week..

Well, maybe some Bernie diehards :p

[rpannier]

3. Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy

Another investigation
Another million+ spent on nothing
The party or respect for law-and-order and fiscal responsibility strikes again

If anyone thinks this will be over after November, forget it.
It'll be another 2, 4, 6 years of this nonsense

If HRC were to pass away, they'd have hearings on her death claiming she probably died to avoid facing an investigation -- or that it was a body double she murdered and gave plastic surgery to

[ailsagirl]

13. God, those people are such a WASTE of money

Do they do anything that's productive or actually good for the country??

[63splitwindow]

4. Ryan's turn in the fucking barrel...

We need a hearing on why the Repugs have held so many politically motivated hearings instead of conducting Congress's legitimate business. We need a full accounting of how much time and money they have thereby wasted.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Oh Please

Ryan is so hyperpartisan, what a lying sack of shit

[PatSeg]

8. Another witch hunt?

Gee, didn't see that coming. If republicans spent as much time legislating as they do on diversionary tactics, something might actually get done.

[yurbud]

10. Republicans have gotten away with far worse

[MariaThinks]

11. they have no time to review the impact of gun violence or

what happened at 911 or how bush lied us into war.

but they can waste millions trying to go after anything that can be used against the Clintons.

At least we know its a losing strategy.

[The Wizard]

12. Repubics want to investigate the FBI

And it's not political. Yeah right.

[riversedge]

47. Seems they just want to call him into a Hearing so he can repeat all the crap

he said yesterday--for TV cameras once again.

[Thinkingabout]

14. The republicans has a way of wasting money on any adventure they can dream instead of

placing meaningful consideration to the needs of Americans.

[Person 2713]

15. On the taxpayer$ Money of course

[George II]

16. Good. Hopefully that will alienate those who are currently on the fence and they'll go for Clinton.

[Journeyman]

17. Methinks they may have -- at last -- overstepped . . .

The numbers have turned, and now indeed it may be time at last for a turning of the screw.

[BadGimp]

18. So let me see if I get this right..

- The GOP had a congressional investigation / political fishing expedition that did not uncover a crime.

- They then got the FBI to do an investigation that did not uncover a crime which the FBI felt could be prosecuted.

- So now they want to have another congressional investigation to investigate the FBI to try to prove the FBI should have requested an indictment?

[MinnieBlum]

19. The GOP have already realized they're losing the Presidential election

and they are such sore losers.

[left-of-center2012]

20. And after Clinton is elected ...

The GOP will try for impeachment the next four years,
falling to pass any legislation (again).

[TygrBright]

21. Whatever. I hear Trey Gowdy's lookin' for another gig, let him do it! n/t

[LenaBaby61]

22. Ryan: GOP will hold hearings on Clinton probe.

[pamela]

23. Featuring a transvaginal ultrasound no doubt

I swear to God I wouldn't be surprised if they demanded that. This is getting fucking ridiculous. How much more poking and prodding do they think they can get away with.

Meanwhile, Trump hasn't submitted to even the most basic scrutiny of his tax returns but Clinton has been examined every which way imaginable.

[gordianot]

24. This is a dangerous game Republics are fragile things.

Courts and politics are a bad combination and voters are fickle. Just 8 years ago the Republican Party was allowed to walk away from serious war crimes.

I do wonder what Comey will say about being given the power to recommend indictment while under oath.

[elleng]

25. Of course they will,

and MAYBE some will remember/be reminded that Comey's a straight shooter.

Of course the nuance included in his statement will pass many of them by, and others will simply ignore it, so they'll waste more of our time and money 'investigating.'

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. Same old stupid tactic. Worked real good for Darrel Issa and Trey Gowdy. . . nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

27. And this is the party with the persecution complex?

War on Christmas
War on Christianity
War on the second amendment
War on traditional marriage

Everyone is against them trying to persecute them and take away their 'Merican rights.

gawd Democrats do not even persecute war fucking crimes on them! We let them off time and time again.

Yet all they want to do is rain down accusations and set up investigations on Democrats.

[The Second Stone]

28. How many separate investigations will you hold Mr. Speaker?

Really, you should decide now.

[AllyCat]

29. So Speaker Ryan, you are going after Walker too, right?

And Shrub?

[Lady_Chat]

31. Ryan won't hold a vote on gun control, but has plenty of time for another "hearing"

More taxpayers time and money spent for nothing.

[ffr]

33. 'zactly!

[ffr]

32. Ryan, where's the gun bill? Where is the bill you promised?

You can have your hearings on this tired subject another time. The people demand sensible gun reform. And if you don't get the opportunity to hold a hearing about Hillary, it'll be because you were voted out of office by fired up democrats fed up of dealing with your bullshit.

GOTV 2016 & 2018.

[DesertRat]

34. They won't hold hearings for Merrick Garland

To be confirmed to the SCOTUS, but they're trying to prolong the email probe?

[cstanleytech]

35. I think the FBI should do an investigation of Ryan and the GOP because

either they are just totally freaking incompetent by accident and are damaging the country or they are doing it on purpose perhaps at the behest of a foreign government?

[Crash2Parties]

36. My how quickly they forget about the George W. Bush email scandal

from Salon:

"Even for a Republican White House that was badly stumbling through George W. Bush’s sixth year in office, the revelation on April 12, 2007 was shocking. Responding to congressional demands for emails in connection with its investigation into the partisan firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the White House announced that as many as five million emails, covering a two-year span, had been lost.

The emails had been run through private accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee and were only supposed to be used for dealing with non-administration political campaign work to avoid violating ethics laws. Yet congressional investigators already had evidence private emails had been used for government business, including to discuss the firing of one of the U.S. attorneys. The RNC accounts were used by 22 White House staffers, including then-Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who reportedly used his RNC email for 95 percent of his communications."

[riversedge]

37. You are kidding, right??(that ryan will also look into Rove's and Bush's dealing

with lost and destroyed emails).

[Jazzgirl]

38. Not George Bush and they deleted 2 million emails!

Investigate that motherfucker!!!

[cynzke]

39. THAT WAS THE BEST THEY WERE GOING TO GET FROM THE FBI!

Ryan and GOP should consider..."if it ain't broke, don't fix it"! The harder they go after the FBI, the MORE the FBI has to defend its self and by doing that DEFEND Clinton as well.

[beachbum bob]

40. another gop failure bound to happen again

....attack a bush appointed (deputy director) , and now... FBI director (a republican).....who unfortunately has to follow the law and not politics

[gaspee]

41. Let's spend more money

On another useless committee for ANOTHER Clinton witchhunt - what could possibly go wrong with the Republican Keystone Cops?

[Odin2005]

42. I'm 30 and I can't remember a time when the GOP has not been in constant witch-hunt mode...

...when the President is a Democrat.

This country is fucked.

[dicksmc3]

43. Little Eddie Muncster is going to cry..

Little Eddie Munster is about to start crying cause he didn't get what he wanted.. Hillary in chains!! I guess he doesn't relalise that Comey is a REPUBLICAN. So where do you go to show your displeasure if your a stinking Republican?? Why Fix so-called news with Megyn Kelly!! These criminal Republicans waste our money on BULLSHIT hearings and committees it's ridiculous!! They should go to jail!!

[riversedge]

46. "should block her access to classified information" as a form of punishment. says Ryan

ah --Ryan is now the Judge, Jury and punisher-in-chief.
He has always been a self- rightous jerk!




http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/politics/paul-ryan-james-comey-fbi-investigation/index.html

......"We're going to have hearings," Ryan said, noting Comey did not take questions from the press. "There are a lot of unanswered questions here."

Ryan also recommended that the Director of National Intelligence "should block her access to classified information" as a form of punishment.

"There are a lot of unanswered questions here," Ryan said, though he did would not say that Comey folded to political pressure when asked.

"He shredded the case that she had been making all year long," Ryan said.

Earlier on Tuesday, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte told CNN's Manu Raju that they were "looking at" holding hearings on the FBI investigation, "but we haven't made any decisions yet."
He had just left a meeting with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy..................

[Cosmocat]

48. See. this is why it is hopeless with this country

and I mean that.

This is flat out, brazen politics. Clear as day, no ifs, ands or buts.

And, it has been what republicans have been doing for 8 years now. They have no advance a single god darned policy measure as a political entity. It has all been them throwing child like hissy fits toward the POTUS and Hillary Clinton.

The House GOP and Senate GOP have done NOTHING, literally, then engage in politics.

And, this country could give a shit. They might lose the senate, but, even there, MOST of the worthless as POS R senators will get reelected, and most of the POS House members will get reelected.

And, the media and country will just mindlessly babble about "Gridlock."

[Coyotl]

49. Political abuse of power is a crime, last time I checked. No holds barred time:

Let's take the Republicans to task on who they really are:

[Still In Wisconsin]

50. So we can't hold a vote on Obama's SC nominee...

but we have plenty of time and money for a probe of the Clinton probe?

[stopbush]

51. Congressional Republicans:

[chillfactor]

52. Ryan is no match for Comey......

Ryan is as dumb as a brick s**t house....

[underpants]

53. Has anyone offer examples of people being convicted "for doing far less"?

Patreus - no
Nishimura - no

Any examples?

[DCBob]

54. I think they are going to regret this.

Comey is hard core legit and will not take kindly the notion that he is playing politics or was bribed or whatever. He will turn on them.. guaranteed.

[Cosmocat]

56. IDK

I think he was dripping with hatred toward Hillary, and part of why he did a public announcement like he did was to personally light her up.

That said, I think he also was trying to explain why he could not be a good conservative and just do his part to set up a prosecution to try to avoid having the right wing slam him like some are.

I don't know how ... Depends if he wants to continue to skewer Hillary or if he is off put by them questioning him.

[Shrike47]

55. Do we even have a budget yet? The Republicans in the House will do anything but useful work.

[Arkana]

57. Of course they will.

House Republicans love nothing more than wasting taxpayer money on fishing expeditions.