Rep. Swalwell finally calls Bu!!sh!t ...

[PsychoBabble]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/27/9-11-politicians-russia-attack-democracy

Unfortunately, leaders on whom we counted to protect us have put their loyalty to Trump – whose campaign is under criminal and counterintelligence investigations – over their duty to their country. After lying to the Senate, Sessions has had to recuse himself from all criminal investigations involving Russia’s ties to the 2016 election campaign ...

... In the House, our chairman and Trump transition team member Devin Nunes seems to be running his own intelligence service, receiving classified information regarding our investigation and exclusively briefing it to the president. And now he has cancelled Tuesday’s open hearing – where witnesses had already submitted testimony to the committee – proposing instead to have future hearings conducted in secret.

Enough.

Nearly every Republican leader we have counted on to demonstrate impartiality has failed. The FBI’s important work will continue, but its honest progress is threatened by an executive branch severely penetrated by Russian influence. The House’s investigation is on life support, as the chairman refuses to share with his own committee members the intelligence he is briefing to the president.

(emphasis mine)

[tomp]

1. the fbi? "honest " progress? same sentence?

you mean the agency of j. edgar hoover?

the same agency that released the info of an additional Clinton e-mail investigation just before the election and said nothing about the trump investigation since last july until last week?

the same agency that allowed giulliani and his buddies at the NY bureau office to interfere in the election?

that fbi?

it is staggeringly naive to expect the fbi to be honest and nonpartisan. it is, at its essence, a right wing organization with a politicized history/agenda. their history is rife with right wing political bias.

[WinkyDink]

5. "its honest progress is threatened" does not mean, necessarily, that the progress is currently

honest.

Stalwell is calling out the entire shebang, IMO.

[tblue37]

9. Nevertheless, one must mouth the expected pieties, or never be heard at all. nt

[tomp]

11. the danger is that the people are continued to be led to believe....

....that a full and fair investigation will take place as long as we go back to pre-trump standards. we are encouraged to rely on the powers that be doing their usual slow-walked, hair-splitting, well-parsed investigations. remember bush and cheney together, not under oath? oh, the good old days!

[democrank]

2. It's high time

country above party.

[L. Coyote]

3. That may be what Flynn has decided if he really is singing to the FBI.

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#TrumpRussia 50 tweet MEGA-THREAD by Seth Abramson

[klook]

8. Either that or "10 years above Life." (nt)

[Honeycombe8]

12. LOL! nt

[cannabis_flower]

4. What we need..

Is more Republican congressmen calling bullsh!t and voting country above party.

[Amaryllis]

6. This is wrong: "Russia attacked us in this past election, and nearly everyone except the

president – believes the evidence supporting Russia’s culpability."
He does believe it. He knows it is true. Not a question of lack of belief but of cover up.

[BigOleDummy]

15. and ...

Collusion.

[Amaryllis]

7. Great article, but question for everyone: Warner is hesitant about an independent

investigation for these reasons:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028856885
Too slow and read the comments - too much not made public.
Yet Schiff and Swalwell are recommending it.
Your thoughts?

[tblue37]

10. We need a bipartisan select committee + special prosecutor. nt

[ffr]

13. Impartiality?! Ha! LOYALTY is how republicans operate. It's a fraternity environment.

Good ol' boys club. You're either in or you're out. Those "in," reap the rewards. Those "out," are looked down and frowned upon. One does not rat out your fraternity brother. You are sworn to loyalty to them above all else.

Websters: loyalty oath: a usually mandatory oath affirming the loyalty of its taker (as to a sovereign, government, or party principles)

[kairos12]

14. The Reich Wing prefer to be Putin boot lickers rather than see HRC as President.

We are stuck with President Putin and his puppet Drumpt.