Adam Schiff: GOP didn't allow House Intelligence Committee to question the Russian who was arrested.

[Mrs. Overall]

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@RepAdamSchiff
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Mariia Butina, a Russian national, has been charged with acting as a surreptitious Russian agent and establishing a secret back channel with the GOP through the NRA.

More likely to come on this; no wonder GOP members of HPSCI refused our request to bring her and others in.

[madaboutharry]

1. Nunes.

The GOP on the Intelligence Comittee, Nunes and the others, are involved in something dirty.

[LunaSea]

5. Yep.

Nunes passport needs to be suspended asap.

[RVN VET71]

18. I look forward to seeing that traitor in prison

But if there's not enough to convict, then, hell, let him leave and never return. I'd be hesitant fearing he'd turn over secret information to the Russians, but he's already done that by funneling it through the White House.

In fact, maybe it'd be better to let him leave the country and thereby avoid his receiving a Trump Pardon.

[SCVDem]

23. Prison my ass!

Hang 'em all!!!

They disgrace every veteran!

[Freethinker65]

6. +1000

They knew

[dalton99a]

8. And Paul Ryan:

[RVN VET71]

20. I don't often pray.

But if Mueller can move against both Nunes and Ryan, I may sing a hosanna or 2.

[onetexan]

22. yep, repugs are officially party of Putin

[emulatorloo]

2. Another reason this arrest is a big deal. I hope she will cooperate with prosecutors.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Schumer said that this is one thing the complicit GOP could do

to show support for the US and not Russia. He said the GOP needs to make its congressional committees demand testimony from all those involved in crimes, not a select few that they get to pick and choose.

[lark]

4. Russian repugs in the House, especially Nunes, are definitely co-conspirators.

Traitors every single freaking worthless one of them.

[triron]

7. Wow! This is BIG.

[Boomerproud]

9. SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS.

Do I have to make myself clearer?

[OliverQ]

10. The charge actually states she was trying to setup a kremlin backchannel

with GOP leaders in Congress.

That's why Paul Ryan is protecting Nunes.

[triron]

19. Whoa!

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

24. You mean like with Sens. John Thune, R-SD and Mikey Rounds, R-SD ...

... Ms. Butina has been hanging around in South Dakota since at least 2014.

[link:http://dakotafreepress.com/2017/03/27/maria-butina-connects-russians-nra-trump-sibby-and-mathew-wollmann/|

[fierywoman]

11. Undoubtedly part of that old "keep it in the family" strategy.

[oasis]

12. Giant, unremovable stain on the Republican Party. nt

[RVN VET71]

21. GOP is or should be toast.

Those few good, decent people who have not supported Trump -- yes, I'm including Joe Scarborough here -- will have to regroup and rename.

GOP is the party of treason -- and that fact was never clearer to me than when the Trumpists on the House Intel committee laid into Peter Strzok. Such an obvious and vicious attempt to deflect.

[rzemanfl]

26. Fuck Scarborough. n/t

[oasis]

29. Steve Schmidt, Max Boot and many other ex-GOPers will likely

wait until things settle down and hope for a Trump defeat in 2020. A new party could spring up in 2024.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Don Jr. is probably shitting a gold brick right about now.

[murielm99]

14. Gold plated.

They are not actual billionaires. Everything they do is phony.

[RVN VET71]

16. Only question is whether he's smart enough to know the trouble he's in.

A Russian emails him that he can set up a meeting with Russians who have dirt on Hillary. Don, Jr., emails back "I love it."

So we know he's pretty stupid. That and feeling so entitled. Like the late, unlamented Leona Helmsley once said of taxes, Don Jr. may well be saying about treason: it's only a crime for the little people.

Mueller, I believe, will disabuse him just as the IRS disabused -- and imprisoned -- Leona Helmsley.

[MarcA]

15. This is why the investigations must be thorough.

There are many avenues and persons to explore; don't let
any of them off.

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. High crimes and misdemeanors....LOCK THEM ALL UP

[C Moon]

25. I was always suspicious of why Bohner dropped out of politics so quickly...

Not that I like Boehner (and I don't), but maybe he smelled a traitor rat.
Then Ryan took the job; and he was against Trump, but strangely took a turn of support very suddenly.
Things got real creepy after that.

[duforsure]

27. Sounds like a lot of republicans are co-conspirators now.

That's why they prevented her from being made to appear before them, she knew too much about them.

[FarPoint]

28. I hope this is " on the record'.

These Gop'ers are so offensive!

[Mrs. Overall]

30. As yet unconfirmed, but unnamed person in the indictment for back channel might be DANA ROHRABACHER

A reporter has uncovered that he was in Moscow on the date of the meeting mentioned in the indictment.

[Hassler]

31. The entire GOP is complicit. Lock. Them. All. Up.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. Traitors

All of them.