House Russia Probe Disintegrates Into Benghazi 2.0
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House Russia Probe Disintegrates Into Benghazi 2.0
The House Intelligence Committee’s primary responsibility is to oversee the executive branch—not to loop them in on active investigations.
TIM MAK
03.22.17 7:55 PM ET
In the course of one afternoon, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes steered his panel’s Russia investigation into the troubled lane of the vitriolic, partisan Benghazi special committee.
Most of the lawmakers on the Intelligence Committee, previously known for its leave-your-party-at-the-door work, had held out hope there could be an independent, bipartisan probe into Russian interference in the U.S. elections.
That hope died when their chairman went to the White House, and then the press, to discuss intelligence intercepts involving the "incidental” collection of communications related to Donald Trump and members of his transition team before telling his own committee about the matter.
“If you have a chairman that is interacting with the White House, and sharing information with the White House when people in the White House are subject to investigation… it throws a profound doubt over whether that (investigation) can be done credibly,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the panel.
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