Graham announces vote on subpoenas for Comey, Obama-era intel officials

[babylonsister]

Oh, brother.


Graham announces vote on subpoenas for Comey, Obama-era intel officials
By Alexander Bolton - 05/18/20 07:18 PM EDT


Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced Monday evening that his panel will vote June 4 on a subpoena authorization to review documents and communications and solicit testimony from an array of senior Obama-era officials, including former FBI Director James Comey.

Graham announced in a press release that the subpoena vote will take place as part of his panel’s investigation into “FISA abuse” and the FBI probe “Crossfire Hurricane,” which investigated contacts between Trump advisers and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The subpoenas will cover “documents, communications and testimony from witnesses” including Comey, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan.

Under Senate Judiciary Committee rules, the chairman cannot unilaterally issue a subpoena and must either receive the consent of the ranking member, in this case Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), or secure a majority committee vote.

Graham and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are spearheading Senate Republicans’ investigation into whether the FBI’s probe of the Trump campaign in 2016, which later evolved into former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between Trump advisers and Russian officials, was politically motivated.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/498419-graham-announces-vote-on-subpoena-for-comey-obama-era-intel-officials

[Me.]

1. And What If They Refuse?

[gratuitous]

2. No harm, no foul, I think

You just have to use the magic words, "If I don't wanna, I don't hafta."

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. I hope these FASCIST TRAITORS go so far that the public ERUPTS in a PHYSICAL reaction.

Going after patriots should ENRAGE us...

[Takket]

4. sorry, congressional subpeona power is meaningless

[Thomas Hurt]

5. they should all tell Graham and Johnson to f**k off.

[C_U_L8R]

6. People are dying by the thousands, and Graham wants to play stupid games.

Resign fuckface.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Hmmm. Sounds like Executive Privilege Time. Do these subpoenas serve a "legislative purpose"?

[Jake Stern]

8. I got $100

That says SCOTUS, 5-4, finds some twisted legal logic to compel the release of documents and testimony when the Republican controlled Senate committee sues while shielding Trump from disclosure from the Dem controlled House committee.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Open those floodgates, motherfucker! Remember what goes around, comes around. 2021 is not far off!

[EarlG]

10. I don't get it

Are they expecting these people to refuse to testify, so they can make political hay out of it?

Isn’t the alternative that they will comply with the subpoenas, show up, and testify honestly?

“Yes that’s right Senator, we were investigating Flynn. Because he was an unregistered foreign agent and he was constantly communicating with Russian spies. Should we not have investigated that?”

How does that help Graham and co.?

[crickets]

11. I'm with you. I don't see anyone pulling the same childish refusal to

appear when subpoenaed, and I don't think their testimony could be anything but embarrassingly competent to downright harmful. The whole thing is strange.

[bigtree]

12. funny, if they show up it'll be a blood bath for Trump and co.

...most of the information damning Trump has been hidden away by refusing subpoenas and the like.

If these folks show, they'll be free to provide details and evidence republicans and the WH have been working to keep under wraps.

[babylonsister]

13. Then by all means, they should proceed.

Once they open up this can of worms, there will be no going back.