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Roger Stones Indictment Proves the House Republicans Russia Investigation Was a Whitewash
By JEREMY STAHL at Slate
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/roger-stones-indictment-proves-the-house-republicans-russia-investigation-was-a-whitewash.html
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The special counsels office showed how Stone repeatedly misled the committee in an alleged effort to cover up his contacts with Wikileaks, which the Republican majority of the HPSCI identified in its final report as a Russian proxy that released Democratic emails that had been stolen by Russia in an effort to influence the 2016 election.
That heavily partisan Congressional investigationled by Republican Reps. Devin Nunes, Mike Conaway, and former Rep. Trey Gowdycovered a wide range of topics including the Trump campaigns involvement in or knowledge about the publication of stolen emails. It also covered the actions of anyone officially affiliated with the campaign along with the actions of anyone unofficially affiliated with the campaign, defined as including wannabes, hangers-on, and people who represented themselves as being part of the campaign. Stone clearly fits into at least one of those categories.
Based on the committees questioning of him and others, the Republican majority released a 243-page final report announcing it had reached a broad conclusion in line with a key Trump talking point: No collusion. The Committee did not find any evidence of collusion, conspiracy, or coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russians, the report stated. While the Committee found that several of the contacts between Trump associates and Russiansor their proxies, including Wiklleakswere ill-advised, it continued, the Committee did not determine that Trump or anyone associated with him assisted Russias active measures campaign.
How did the committee reach that determination? In its collusion section, the HSPSCI Republican report noted under Finding #25 that [w]hen asked directly, none of the interviewed witnesses provided evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
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ffr
(22,670 posts)Either they all stuck together and made history as they saw fit or they all would go down with their dying party.
Nunes, Ryan, McConnell, Pence, tRump's nepotistic clan and all of the tentacles that spread off in every direction, from the radio and TV personalities that sold their souls to support America's adversaries, to the gullible RW hate voters who hate, simply because their mothers didn't hold them long enough when they were children.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)and expecting to hear a bunch of sour notes. Ain't gonna happen.
Republicans are all brainwashed to sing off the same page and never, never condemn another Repug....
calimary
(81,315 posts)collusion.
Very simple.
Sounds like obstruction of justice to me, but I'm no lawyer.