House spat leaves Senate in drivers seat on Russia probe

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/donald-trump-election-russia-investigation-congress-236540

The Senate Intelligence Committee has been able to avoid the partisan fissures that have weakened its House counterpart, and began conducting private interviews with intelligence officials last week. Sources say it also plans to interview Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and close adviser, who had met in December with the Russian ambassador.

“Trust me, I feel the — everybody on the committee feels — the responsibility to continue to try to do this right,” said the Senate committee’s top Democrat, Mark Warner of Virginia, who is leading the upper chamber’s Russia investigation alongside Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.).

That’s a far cry from the acrimony dividing the House Intelligence Committee, whose Democrats maintain that their panel's probe is shrouded in suspicion after Chairman Devin Nunes made explosive public comments last week about alleged incidental surveillance of Trump transition team members by the Obama administration. The House committee’s top Democrat, Adam Schiff of California, later accused the White House of pressuring the committee to cancel an upcoming public hearing. Such meddling, Schiff said, “threatens the integrity of the only investigation that’s been authorized in the House.”

The animosity carried over into the weekend, with Schiff questioning Nunes’ credibility to lead the investigation, and Republicans countering that Democrats have no evidence of actual collusion with the White House.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. would feel better about it except for Burr - real dead weight there. One of our state's true

embarrassments (we have no shortage of them these days in politics of course).