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Appearing on All In with Chris Hayes, senior Senate leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) accused Republicans of using the secretive House and Senate Intelligence committees to probe Russian involvement within the Trump administration in an effort to cover-up their findings.
Speaking with MSNBC host Hayes, Durbin blasted GOP leaders, including former House Oversight chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), for their sudden interest in having Trump investigated but on their terms.
Lets get to the beginning here, Durbin explained. Why did they choose the intelligence committees for this investigation? Theres a lot of reasons but one of them is they meet behind closed doors, the public cant see what is happening, you dont know what witnesses are being called, theres no effort or opportunity to test credibility. And if they ever produce a report in some distant time, its going to be classified.
Isnt it interesting that Darrell Issa, who couldnt hold himself back from having weeks and months and years of public investigations of the Obama administration now doesnt believe in congressional investigations but wants to have a special prosecutor. Durbin continued. Well, certainly we dont want to see Attorney General Sessions who should recuse himself being the prosecutor. A special prosecutor may be in order. but why have the Republicans, who couldnt quit on emails and Benghazi decided now that no public hearing on this Russian involvement in our election is really warranted. What a hoot.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/senator-accuses-gop-of-using-secretive-intel-hearings-to-hide-trumps-russia-contacts/
mahina
(17,693 posts)Anti-Americanmastermind
Otherwise he's a tool who was manipulated and used to instal Manafort, Tillerson, Mnuchin and Wills for Russia.
MagickMuffin
(15,951 posts)Always that double standard with them!
lindysalsagal
(20,726 posts)Last edited Tue Feb 28, 2017, 12:12 AM - Edit history (1)
Too bad for the GOP.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,033 posts)https://www.dcreport.org/wilbur-ross-comes-to-d-c-with-a-long-and-profitable-history-of-russian-connections/?preview_id=944
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