If you look back a few years, you might remember how ObamaCare was sailing through the Senate, with Public Option attached. There was no rush, because Republicans appeared to be negotiating in good faith, with Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on the verge of agreement for the Republican side. What we did not know is that Lindsey Poo and Snake in the Grassley were just stalling for time, to allow Republicans to organize their sabotage of the bill with their Koch funded Tea Party Town Halls. We saved the bill, but we lost the Public Option. Eight years later, Lindsey Poo and Snake in the Grassley have joined the Republican Reich to sabotage what had appeared to be a bipartisan Senate investigation of Russia’s election activities here. They have asked DOJ to indict Christopher Steele, of all people.
Christopher Steele is not the issue. Yet the former British intelligence official who wrote a series of unconfirmed reports on Trump-Russia connections during the 2016 campaign seems to have become the main target of congressional Republicans. On Friday, two Republican senators—Charles Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina—released a letter they had sent the previous day to the Justice Department and the FBI requesting a criminal investigation of Steele. There have been no other known congressional criminal referrals related to the Russian attack on the 2016 presidential election or to interactions between Trump associates and Russians during the campaign.
In recent weeks, Capitol Hill Republicans have intensified both their attack on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation and their call for a quick end to the congressional inquiries. And with this move, Grassley and Graham are trying to bolster the Republicans’ Trump-saving counter-narrative: the real scandal is the Steele dossier.
Pause for a moment and ponder this. The US intelligence community has concluded that Vladimir Putin ordered a clandestine act of information warfare against the United States to harm Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump during the election. And during that race, Trump’s camp had a series of contacts with Russians or suspected cut-outs. Also throughout the time Putin’s operation was under way, Trump and his lieutenants kept denying this assault was happening—even after his top campaign aides were informed that Moscow wanted to secretly assist Trump and after Trump was briefed by US intelligence agencies that Russia was behind the hack-and-dump assaults targeting Clinton and the Democrats. That is, the public now knows that the United States was attacked by Putin, that Trump associates were interacting with Russians during this period, and that Trump and his crew, intentionally or not, provided cover for Moscow by insisting no such operation was occurring.
Yet what now draws the ire of congressional Republicans the most is Steele and his reports… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Mother Jones>
I urge you to click through for the rest od David Corn’s article.
If KKK Beauregard manages to get one of his flunkies to indict Steele, that will make him unwilling to travel to the US to give testimony for the Mueller investigation.
Ari Melber also reported on this story.
Every time we think that Republicans could not get more vile, they do.
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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Yes, this is both outrageous and ridiculous. I would say that Grassley, even more than Graham – needs to be gone, except that this regime has gotten me into the habit of looking at consequences (even more than I was when I warned that John Bouehner might just not be the worst possible Speaker of the House), and Grassley leaving would make Joni (“pignuts”) Ernst the SENIOR Senator from Iowa. Do I really want that? Actually I’m afraid that if I think about it too long, I may need a barf bag.
Unbelievable!! Sneaky snakes indeed!
Doesn’t surprise the low level that they’ll go, truth be told, that they are going this route. Honesty, integrity, out the window.
Thank goodness Mueller isn’t stupid and also knows that
Even if the FBI and the Justice Department have a look at this letter these “brightest” of all Congressional Minions and find something in the classified information they refer to, there’s no reason there’s something to indict Steele on. Sessions is already in hot water, so he’ll be careful starting procedures if there’s nothing there, which there won’t be. But even if he would want to give it a try, it’ll take time and the media that are already on this case will make it very difficult for him to turn it into something substantial.
Again, we’ll have to wait and see if anything comes from this Republican ruse other than a more hopeful and boasting Drumpf. Mueller will perhaps make some haste getting Steele to a hearing.
KKK Beauregard as AG is over the whole FBI and DOJ. If he orders a Federal attorney to prosecute, he can prosecute or resign.
Sorry, there is no “ire” here. What we have here is plain and simple demonic, malevolent, Machiavellian strategizing, period!
G.W. Bush said that Gog and Magog were afoot in Iraq, as part of his lying scheme to go to war there, but no…these guys fill those rolls!
Thanks all. Hugs.
Do you think maybe, just maybe that Republicans are running scared particularly regarding the midterms? They seem to be doing a lot of distracting. But not just distracting. I recall that Republicans were trying lay payment for the Steele dossier squarely on Clinton and the Democrats thereby doing a political hack job on the Democrats before the 2018s and perhaps saving their own asses.
Too bad neither of these Republicans is up for re-election in 2018.
The republicans are doing everything they can to distract, deflect, or to otherwise change the subject regarding the Russia/Trump investigation. Now in regards to Christopher Steele, they are once again trying to confuse or change the focus of the investigation.
I have a question. Is this not a means of obstruction of justice?
Everyone that is involved with these shenanigans should be brought up on charges of obstruction of justice.
These sorry excuses for citizens are damaging the very fabric of our nation and should be called to answer for their acts.