Sunday, February 05, 2017

Remember that Senate Russia hacking investigation? Republicans are hoping you don't

Rss@dailykos.com (laura Clawson) · Thursday, February 02, 2017, 6:31 pm

Congressional Republicans don't want to do a serious investigation of Russian election interference and ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. It would be a bad look to say “we’re not investigating at all,” though, so they’re doing several half-hearted investigations instead, with Democrats—joined by John McCain and Lindsey Graham in the moments they get up their nerve to oppose their party—pushing for those investigations to stop being polite and start getting real.

The Republican chairs and Democratic ranking members of the three Senate committees looking into the issue are “planning to meet in the coming days,” Politico reports.

In an interview Tuesday, [Mark] Warner said five committee staffers are dedicated to the investigation and that more could be added if needed.

“I think the intelligence professional staff on both the majority and minority are quite good,” the Virginia senator said. “I think if we need more, we’ve worked through some ideas on how we might need to bring in designees or others to backfill, because some of the staff we are using will be people who have other areas to cover.” [...]

Burr said he does not expect to add staffers or request a budget increase for the investigation, saying it could be done with existing committee resources.

Don’t need a select committee, don’t need to add staffers or increase the budget … oh, yeah, Republicans are all over this one. Why would they ever put on a full court press over little things like the integrity of U.S. elections and ties between the president’s top advisers and the country screwing with the integrity of those elections?

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