Roger Stone's Indictment Proves the House Republicans' Russia Investigation Was a Whitewash

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Roger Stone’s Indictment Proves the House Republicans’ Russia Investigation Was a Whitewash

By JEREMY STAHL at Slate

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/roger-stones-indictment-proves-the-house-republicans-russia-investigation-was-a-whitewash.html

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The special counsel’s office showed how Stone repeatedly misled the committee in an alleged effort to cover up his contacts with Wikileaks, which the Republican majority of the HPSCI identified in its final report as a Russian “proxy” that released Democratic emails that had been stolen by Russia in an effort to influence the 2016 election.

That heavily partisan Congressional investigation—led by Republican Reps. Devin Nunes, Mike Conaway, and former Rep. Trey Gowdy—covered a wide range of topics including the Trump campaign’s “involvement in or knowledge about the publication of stolen emails.” It also covered the actions of anyone officially affiliated with the campaign along with the actions of anyone unofficially affiliated with the campaign, defined as including “wannabes,” “hangers-on,” and “people who represented themselves as being part of the campaign.” Stone clearly fits into at least one of those categories.

Based on the committee’s questioning of him and others, the Republican majority released a 243-page final report announcing it had reached a broad conclusion in line with a key Trump talking point: “No collusion.” “The Committee did not find any evidence of collusion, conspiracy, or coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russians,” the report stated. “While the Committee found that several of the contacts between Trump associates and Russians—or their proxies, including Wiklleaks—were ill-advised,” it continued, “the Committee did not determine that Trump or anyone associated with him assisted Russia’s active measures campaign.”

How did the committee reach that determination? In its “collusion” section, the HSPSCI Republican report noted under “Finding #25” that “[w]hen asked directly, none of the interviewed witnesses provided evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.”


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[ffr]

1. They all conspired in desperation in a last gasp effort to remain in power at any cost

Either they all stuck together and made history as they saw fit or they all would go down with their dying party.

Nunes, Ryan, McConnell, Pence, tRump's nepotistic clan and all of the tentacles that spread off in every direction, from the radio and TV personalities that sold their souls to support America's adversaries, to the gullible RW hate voters who hate, simply because their mothers didn't hold them long enough when they were children.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

2. Makes me think of listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir......

and expecting to hear a bunch of sour notes. Ain't gonna happen.

Republicans are all brainwashed to sing off the same page and never, never condemn another Repug....

[calimary]

3. They didn't find any evidence of collusion because they didn't WANT to find any evidence of

collusion.

Very simple.

Sounds like obstruction of justice to me, but I'm no lawyer.

[applegrove]

5. And Ryan and Gowdy have retired. That is making more sense.

[JI7]

4. yeah, but that was obvious at the time and even without this