WashPo: Looking more and more like a republican coordinated effort to discredit Mueller

[triron]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/25/its-looking-more-and-more-like-there-is-a-coordinated-gop-effort-to-discredit-the-trump-russia-investigation/?utm_term=.4887b33132f6

Please comment on analysis contents. I could not access it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I cant either. GOP are now officially traitors. They will throw the country to Putin if

they have to.

That makes them our enemy, actual traitors.

[lagomorph777]

2. Some content:

...Here's what we definitively know...: During the presidential campaign and after, two senior FBI officials who were having an affair texted their opinions about all sorts of politically interesting things. How they feel about Donald Trump being president. Whether they think there's a “there there” in the FBI's investigation into Russia collusion. Why the FBI was quietly investigating Trump even though it didn't think he would win.

When the FBI found out about these texts in July, it kicked FBI agent Peter Strzok off the special counsel investigation. Congress got hold of the texts, and this week we learned that a chunk of them spanning from December 2016 to May 2017 were missing. That was during all the Trump-FBI Director James B. Comey drama. The FBI said a glitch of the Samsung phones they were texting on failed to capture the texts, including from thousands of other phones that got caught up in the same glitch. The Justice Department's inspector general said Thursday his office has found the missing texts.

Okay. So those are the facts. Here's what high-ranking congressional Republicans are saying about those same facts:

When asked by NPR's David Greene whether there is a coordinated effort to discredit Mueller's investigation, Johnson didn't deny there is one. But he said he is not part of it. “My involvement goes back three years, and the same [for the] investigation into what I believe was a crime by Secretary Clinton.” Greene cut the senator off. It was at least the third time in one interview that Johnson, when asked to explain how these texts demonstrate large-scale bias and corruption at the FBI, had veered into an investigation that ended more than a year ago.

So RePutins aren't even bothering to deny that they're conspiring to exaggerate this story and sell it. Instead, they fall back on their long-discredited Benghazi bullshit.

[Cha]

11. Mahalo for those excerpts, lagomorph!

Quite interesting

[NewJeffCT]

3. While Republicans are trying to obstruct Mueller

somebody should remind them that after Nixon stepped down in 1974, they barely lost the presidency only 2 years later and then had the all time RW icon Ronald Reagan elected in 1980, only 6 years later.

[chuckstevens]

4. Will it work or fail?

[rockfordfile]

5. Why? Mueller is a republican. I think they're just building him up

I'm a skeptic of Mueller because he's a republican.

[byronius]

6. I ran into a Facebook friend of a friend who insisted he's an Independent.

Mueller's less Republican than cop. I think that's become illegal for Republicans.

Cult, you know. Sacrifices and everything. Democracy on an altar, begging for mercy.

Rosemary's Civil Order.

[maxsolomon]

7. Ya think?

Amazing insight, Amber "Captain Obvious" Phillips.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Their conspiracy has become the story

The Republican strategy is as ingenious as Wiley Coyote running off a cliff. Oops.

[Justice]

9. I have a subscription - here is the gist

First part of story recaps whole FBI agent text messages. Then Ron Johnson's interview - he is not very bright

"When asked by NPR's David Greene whether there is a coordinated effort to discredit Mueller's investigation, Johnson didn't deny there is one. But he said he is not part of it. “My involvement goes back three years, and the same [for the] investigation into what I believe was a crime by Secretary Clinton.”

Greene cut the senator off. It was at least the third time in one interview that Johnson, when asked to explain how these texts demonstrate large-scale bias and corruption at the FBI, had veered into an investigation that ended more than a year ago."

Article then talks about how GOP falls back on Hillary Clinton's emails in response to FBI texting allegations.

then says up until now, its been Trump and his team claiming Russian investigation was false but now ---

"But at the very least, Trump now has chairmen of powerful committees out there saying there is political bias at the highest levels of the FBI and suggesting there might be corruption as well, perpetrated, perhaps, by secret, deep-state meetings." This is really the crux of the article.

Ends with escalation by GOP happening just when Trump about to testify and he must be happy - but escalation also happening when investigation is getting very serious.

[Skittles]

10. stating the obvious

[malaise]

12. As in

Duh!