GOP senator subpoenas FBI over Russia, defends Biden probe
Source: Associated Press
By ERIC TUCKER
today
WASHINGTON (AP) Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said Monday that he has subpoenaed the FBI to produce documents to his committee related to the Trump-Russia investigation.
The Wisconsin senator also defended a separate investigation he is leading into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Ukraine, even as Democrats say the probe has the effect of amplifying Russian propaganda and as U.S. intelligence officials say they have assessed that Russia is working to denigrate Biden ahead of the November election.
Johnsons Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is one of multiple Republican-led Senate panels scrutinizing the FBIs investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Another, the Judiciary Committee, has released a series of documents in recent weeks aimed at discrediting the probe, including material on Sunday that the chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, said raised questions about whether the FBI had misled Congress about the accuracy of information it received during the investigation.
The subpoena demands that the FBI produce by Aug. 20 the records that it gave to the Justice Department inspector generals office, which concluded in a report last December that the Russia investigation had been opened for a valid reason but that the FBI had made significant errors during its surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser.
Read more: https://apnews.com/b85d3a8373e0b952ef4f07b310ef6f0c
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And this asshole has nothing else better to do................
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)What does July 4th mean to me? Freedom, Sen. Ron Johnson chirruped on Twitter on Independence Day.
For the Wisconsin Republican, it meant, specifically, the freedom to spend July 4 in Moscow with seven other Republican lawmakers posing for propaganda photos with Russian officials. On the same day it was reported in Britain that two more people had been poisoned
by a Russian nerve agent British officials say came from Vladimir Putins regime. On the day after the Senate Intelligence Committee affirmed the U.S. intelligence communitys conclusion that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump.
Johnson and his colleagues apparently exercised their freedom not to meet with opposition or civil society figures (those whom the Putin regime has not imprisoned or killed), avoiding the risk of offending their hosts. They also exercised their freedom to soft-pedal their criticism of the Russian government, leading Russian politicians and state media to mock them as supplicants.
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So, what do we call these Red Square Republicans? My interlocutors on Twitter suggest Moscow Mules. Or, given the position they put themselves in before our masters in Moscow, perhaps they should be called the Prostrate Eight: Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.), John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Ron Johnson, plus Rep. Kay Granger (Tex.).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html
Evolve Dammit
(16,736 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)oasis
(49,389 posts)Catch2.2
(629 posts)Traitors!
bucolic_frolic
(43,176 posts)Libertarians nothing more nothing less
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)... somehow Ron Johnson "won" the race thanx in a large part because of Russian help.
https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)nordenbluejay
(42 posts)He will have plenty of GOP help. South Dakota Senators Thune and Rounds have nothing else to do. Rounds is up for election but the Dem big brass won't support Dem candidate Ahlers. Dems National re-election committee is out to lunch as usual.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,773 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)in the Senate over the claim by Trump that there was no collusion with Russia back in 2016.