WaPo: Democrats go it alone on Russia probe after partisan breakdowns

[KelleyKramer]

Democrats go it alone on Russia probe after partisan breakdowns

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democrats-go-it-alone-on-russia-probe-after-partisan-breakdowns/2018/01/10/fbee72d2-f57d-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_demsrussia-9pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.efd220288377


Democrats are striking out on their own this week over all but one of the congressional investigations into Russian meddling, independently releasing reports and transcripts, and attacking Republicans they accuse of intentionally undermining active probes in deference to President Trump. Senior Democratic officials in the Senate, frustrated by what they consider a Republican campaign to discredit the law enforcement and intelligence agencies investigating the president, cleared their members to release the interview transcript of one of the Russia investigation’s most sensitive witnesses and, separately, to publish a report detailing the disinformation and intimidation tactics the Kremlin deploys against democracies globally.

In the House, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed a letter sent Tuesday to Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), accusing him of orchestrating a campaign to bury a congressional probe into Trump’s alleged ties to the Russian government and defame the agencies investigating those matters.


On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ranking Democrat, Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), went around committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) to publish the transcript of a 10-hour closed-door interview in August with Glenn Simpson, founder of Fusion GPS, the research firm behind a now-famous dossier detailing Trump’s alleged Russia ties. The move earned a rebuke from Grassley, who has been fixated on the dossier and last week urged the Justice Department to investigate possible criminal charges for its author, former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.


Feinstein said Wednesday that with the transcript’s release, “people can make up their own minds” about what materialized during the committee’s interview with Simpson, noting that she intended to apologize to Grassley for not notifying him first.


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[beachbum bob]

1. GOP WANTS AND NEEDS this to go away, but its not. GOP knows the impending doom

of defending a crooked a 37% president or impeaching him

they are so fucked and its wonderful to watch. Nov 2018 democrat wave is coming

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Piss off, GOP. n/t