Senate push for new Russia hacking probe fizzles
Source: Politico
01/03/17 01:38 PM EST
John McCain and Lindsey Graham are backing off of their push for a select committee on cybersecurity after Russian interference in the election, bowing to the political reality that the Senate Republican Conference largely does not back their idea.
The Arizona and South Carolina Republican senators, along with Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, have been pushing the Senate for weeks to create a new panel to investigate broader cyber threats as well as Russian activity in the 2016 presidential race. They favor creating a new panel over the current piecemeal investigatory structure. McCain's Armed Services Committee as well as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee are all pursuing probes into the Russian hacking.
........................
McCain said he'd spoken to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) about the matter. McConnell prefers to use the Intelligence Committee to spearhead the cyber investigation, and McCain said their discussions had done little to move the GOP leader.
"He said he doesn't think we need it," McCain said...........................
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/no-senate-russia-hacking-probe-233137
damn--we know that the Repubs will have control over everything on these committees--like the Benghazi witchhunt!
Maddow Blog Verified account
?@MaddowBlog
Senate push for new Russia hacking probe fizzles
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/no-senate-russia-hacking-probe-233137
= new reply since forum marked as read
They hate what they've been mislead into believing we stand for and are to blame for. Cheers, you evil being, you.
in a blink of the eye they just put there tails between there legs and just screwed this republic. Now if was something like selling off part of the Grand Canyon for a mining company no problem, they can make a buck.
We don't need any voting integrity in this country, hell no, lets just go down the path to a total failed third rate state and let the fascists republicans pencil whip the findings and have no "public" investigation, that's the ticket.
Instead of making voting nationwide on paper ballots, like in Oregon, and eliminate this BS
McCain spoke to the head fascist, a turtle, the same "guy" who wife's father / family got caught smuggling missile parts to North Korea and has now been nominated to a cabinet position, really.
What am I missing here, I wouldn't trust this jerk (McCain) or the jerk's (Turtle and Graham together) with a wet paper bag, and now they are going to bury this investigation. Thinking outside the box, there has got to be a spy in the Kremlin!!!!
