Mother Jones: Senate Judiciary Committees Russia Probe Just Blew Up

[iluvtennis]

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Russia Probe Just Blew Up
Republicans and Democrats are now pursuing their own investigations

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/the-senate-judiciary-committees-russia-probe-just-blew-up/

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) have broken up over Russia.

The committee’s once bipartisan investigation into whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice or his campaign colluded with Russia has hit a partisan wall, with Republicans and Democrats saying they will now conduct their own probes. “We made the decision to go and carry it out ourselves,” Feinstein told Mother Jones on Tuesday. “They can go ahead and do whatever it is they wanted to do.” A Grassley spokesman also said the chairman had decided to proceed with a Republican-only investigation.

Judiciary’s Russia investigation is the latest congressional probe to stall out over GOP efforts to pursue matters Democrats see as gambits to distract or provide cover for the Trump administration. The partisan sparring within the committees looking into various aspects of the Russia scandal has caused concern among Democrats and other observers that Republicans will fail to complete rigorous probes but will still declare their investigations did not find significant collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Feinstein said Tuesday that their agreement broke down in recent weeks as Republicans insisted on focusing on inquiries into matters such as the sale of a uranium company to Russians while Clinton was secretary of state, and allegations that the Justice Department soft-pedaled its Clinton probe. “The interests are different. We want to do different things than they want to do,” Feinstein said. “Their staff appears to want to take this into a different venue, and that’s Hillary Clinton, and it’s Loretta Lynch. We think it’s collusion and obstruction of justice.”

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The GOP doesn't want to continue the investigation because they don't like what they are finding. So, instead of bipartisian report, we will have a GOP report and a Dem report and each will say the other is incorrect. GAH

So glad there is Mueller's independent investigation

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. GOP hates America, it is that simple.

[tymorial]

7. But they do live 'Merica.

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Love em sum murica, you betcha

REminds me when I was a kid I had an album

The Lettermen!! ...And Live!

And for the life of me I couldnt figure out why it said and Live, as in live your life, not Live as in live performance.

[ProudLib72]

2. HURRAY!!!

Now the Dems are unfettered by asshole Grassley who was never going to give this the attention it deserved. Of course they decided to investigate HRC. What did we expect of them? But we will definitely find something because we won't tell interviewees they are free to leave at any time, and we will put them under oath.

Unless I'm completely wrong and Dems don't have as extensive a purview to call individuals to testify? Article doesn't mention this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

30. The asshole was supportive of the investigation right up until things got real.

Now, suddenly, he has shifted his view. an 84 yar old Republican who probably is not gonna run again, who has nothing to lose by being honest, has suddenly changed his mind.
Wonder how much he was paid....

[ProudLib72]

31. Oh, I want this tied tight around their necks

I want this to be the boat anchor tied around their collective necks that drowns the party. If Feinstein suddenly started investigating Grassley's collusion, that'd be fine by me.

[Achilleaze]

3. republicans hiding the treason of their Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

...and his cabal of colluding cronies.

Disgusting. They are choosing their narrow party over America. Disgraceful.

[SkatmanRoth]

4. Two groups are conducting investigations

One group is looking for the truth and finding a way to help the country move forward.

The other group are the Republicans who will go ahead and do whatever it is they want to do.

[blueinredohio]

6. Every Democrat who has went to a meeting on the Russia probe with F.B.I. or anyone else

needs to go public with everything they know

[thbobby]

9. subpoena?

Can Democrats on their own issue and enforce subpoenas?

[leftynyc]

12. Wondering the same thing

If they don't, this is pointless.

[Duppers]

22. That is exactly it: they do not have subpoena power

Our system seems fixed and in dire straits now.

[thbobby]

24. Info from closed door meetings?

Perhaps Dems should take a page from the GOP playbook and start leaking what has been revealed in closed-door interviews. I do not know how this would affect the Mueller investigation or even know it would.

But given the massive GOP coverup and diversion strategy, drastic measures need to be used to reveal the truth. There have been so many closed-door interviews that surely there is much info that is being withheld from the public.

[Mr. Ected]

10. Republican obstructionists in Congress have quashed bipartisanship for years now

Special counsel or bust. It's really come down to that.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Did we not expect this to happen.

Most people with a I.Q.above room temp knew this was going to happen. Grassley was put in his Chairmanship to protect Sesions and Trump from any possible Ethical or Legal challenges coming from any Senator or Governmental Investigative Agency.

One other Senator to watch out for is Orin Hatch. Zero credibility.

[OregonBlue]

13. I don't know how much Grassley was paid but he's been terrified and trying to derail these

investigations from the beginning. Wonder if he will be one of the ones issued subpoenas?

[Eyeball_Kid]

29. Grassley knows that the entire GOP leadership..

will be indicted for money laundering. He’s trying to slow down the inevitable.

[BatteriesNotNeeded]

34. have to agree with you

his behavior is way out of proportion to things. He is in cahoots with IQ45.

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. If today's GOP had run the Nuremberg Trials

100% of the focus would have been on how Eisenhower treated Patton and whether Pearl Harbor was an FDR plot to undermine Hilter.

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. And don't forget Truman using the White House phone for personal calls

or his wife's charity accepting donations from foreigners. Far more important than the deaths of six million Jews.

[cstanleytech]

16. Maybe its time for a RICO case against the RNC and the Repugnants in Congress ?

[SunSeeker]

17. GOP obstructive of justice, as usual. nt

[BigmanPigman]

18. BINGO! THIS IS WHAT I HAVE SAID

over and over throughout the year. We need an independent non partisan commission similar to the 9/11 Commission. It would be completely funded, be fully staffed, be relatively quick and couldn't be derailed by the GOP. Several Dem reps and Pelosi have already called for this publicly. Dems have introduced bills but the GOP Congress blocks them (my my, what a surprise). Mueller seems to satisfy and placate everyone. The GOP BS propaganda campaign can screw the validity of the investigation in public opinion via Fux Ruse and right wing hate radio.. I have been keeping notes on this for 8 months and this proves that I am on the right track. Unfortunately I am almost alone in this endeavor.

[zentrum]

19. Hurry Up Mueller!

[Rebl2]

20. Seems to

me many of the Republicans have become Russian sympathizers. Why else would they want to obstruct this investigation.

[pangaia]

21. So glad there is Mueller's independent investigation

I am coming to the position that I have no trust the Mueller investigation will have no results
Not because of him, but.. the monsters are in charge. Whatever the Mueller team finds, it (we) will be powerless to do anything about it.

[Skittles]

23. in other words, repukes are obstructing justice

BIG SURPRISE, NOT

[kacekwl]

25. As el-Rushbo says the collusion investigation found no evidence and

Will not find any. The fix has been in since the beginning. All traitors for $$$$$.

[Dawson Leery]

26. The entire party is complicit in covering for Trump.

[old guy]

27. I've said all along

these congressional hearings are a total and complete waste of time. Repub deflection at its finest.

[Frustratedlady]

28. I smell Grassley. He's been dragging his feet throughout the whole investigation.

That makes me sick.

Maybe now, the Democrats can go full speed ahead with what they have already discovered and not be blocked by the Republicans. Between Grassley and Nunes with their ornery tricks to slow down this investigation, it appeared they were never going to come up with a conclusion. Just another example of collusion, which the Republicans are good at.

[Tatiana]

32. So Grassley is covering for his buddy McConnell....

Pretty sure McTurtle is implicated somehow --

Who has funded McConnell's super PAC? Russian connections?

[fallout87]

33. ...

What makes you think Mueller can't be compromised by his own party? I have zero faith anything will come of this that will impeach Trump. They are all crooked.

[Maraya1969]

35. What about these Republicans is not Obstruction of Justice?

If you try and stop a criminal investigation I thought you were obstructing

What are they getting away with it?

[L. Coyote]

36. We need to make sure president Hillary Clinton isn't using a private email server in the White House

[GETPLANING]

37. Projection is the first characteristic of conservatism

if they are accusing someone of something, it's because conservatives are doing it (stealing elections, using personal email accounts, private servers, class warfare, racism, sexism, you name it) or wish they could get away with doing it themselves.

[iluvtennis]

38. Indeed, especially with the Trump regime. All of the liars are masters at projection.