Senate panel told Justice Dept. of suspicions over Trump family members' Russia testimony

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The Republican and Democratic chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee notified federal prosecutors last year of their suspicion that several individuals, including President Trump’s family members and confidants, might have presented misleading testimony in the panel’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, people familiar with the matter said.

The list of individuals included the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, whose accounts of their pre-election meeting with a Russian lawyer were contradicted by the president’s former deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates in interviews that were part of the criminal investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, these people said. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss what remains a highly politicized and sensitive matter.

But the intelligence committee, one person said, reserved its harshest allegations for the president’s former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, former campaign co-chair Sam Clovis and private security contractor Erik Prince, saying it had reason to believe all three had lied to congressional investigators — a potential felony.

The committee’s concerns were detailed in a formal letter sent to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., in June 2019, people familiar with the matter said. Existence of the letter was first reported by the Los Angeles Times late Friday night.

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1. Oops!

Lock them up!

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2. Liars...every. single. one. of. them.

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3. And not just liars

Criminals - treasonous scumbags

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4. I imagine barr will put it in the shredder to protect the lying traitors.

corruption at the maximum level

The Republican and Democratic chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee notified federal prosecutors last year .....Bipartisan

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13. Yep.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. They didn't betray America for the money.

They betrayed America for a shitload of money!

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7. And power. ...nt

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8. Absolutely Machiavelli.

“Money to get the power. Power to keep the money.”

It may motivate many on Wall Street-on-the-Potomac, but greed really is un-American.

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11. Greed is quintessentially American...

[Kid Berwyn]

18. You are correct.

In “The War Wagon,” the character Levi Walking Bear expressed the reality:

“...I've learned to live in the white man's world and do what they do. Grab all you can, anytime you can.”

My mistake is believing in the ideal — there’s enough for everybody. Let’s share, look after one another, and use the treasure wisely.

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17. For some reason, Corporate McPravda didn't think it odd.

Glad Axios understood it’s import:

https://www.axios.com/fbi-opened-investigation-into-whether-trump-was-working-for-russia--3f40a092-4e18-4b58-a032-0f5d1f020dad.html

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6. Here again, we continue to read about lies under oath, and nothing happens as a result.

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9. They lied? Imagine that!

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10. Where's the Mueller Report? UN-REDACTED.

NOW God Dammit. NOW.

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14. Whatever happened to the effort to get it???

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19. NO SHIT!!!!!

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15. "Might have presented misleading testimony"

A couple of paragraphs later, the Post actually gets around to calling it lying. Bold journalism there. Also, why does this matter (the letter to the U.S. Attorney was sent in June 2019) continue to be "highly politicized and sensitive"? If someone's lying, he's lying. Nothing political about that, is there?

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16. Anyone here know what the Statute of Limitation is

for the crime of lying to Congress?