So, wuddaya think now that Comey's come and gone?

[Stinky The Clown]

I had hoped to pay attention all day but work got in the way and I could only hear bits and pieces.

I took away two substantive facts:

~Trump lied when he accused Obama of tapping his wires. (Doh!)

~There is an ongoing investigation into ties between his posse and his El Jefe, Putin.

What did I miss?

[jmg257]

1. 2 big issues...1) ongoing investigation into trump collusion, 2) crime of leaking classified

FISA stuff (Flynn) is a big no-no.

Dems got a lot of stuff we know about (Page, Manafort, Stone, etc, banks, trump, money, Ukraine, GOP platform change...) on the record. Also painted Russian hack as act of war.

Repubs hit hard on the crime of leaking Flynn and its affect on US security.

[Trust Buster]

2. Rethuglicans only asked about prosecuting leakers.

I think they made it very clear today that any congressional investigation into Chump and his merry idiots will be only symbolic. Special prosecutor or bust.

[Kablooie]

3. Basically all that we already knew has been confirmed officially. That's about all.

[spanone]

4. Trump is Using the Official @POTUS Twitter Account to Tweet Out Hearing Highlights He Likes

tweeting live during the hearings.....jeebus

President Donald Trump weighed in Monday during the House Intelligence Committee hearing with a set of tweets cherrypicking highlights he found favorable.

At just after 12:30, p.m., the president tweeted out a clip from the hearing which showed FBI Director James Comey refusing to deny that he had briefed former president Obama about Russia-related phone calls made by Gen. Michael Flynn. Comey had issued many similar refusals to comment throughout the hearing for various reasons.

That tweet was soon followed by another from the official POTUS account that showed NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers saying there was no evidence that Russia had falsified election results in a number of key 2016 battleground states.

Trump next added a clip showing Rogers agreeing with the claim that unmasking individuals picked up in intelligence gathering operations was a threat to national security.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-is-using-the-official-potus-twitter-account-to-tweet-out-hearing-highlights-he-likes/

[femmocrat]

5. No one asked Comey about why he was less "secretive" about the investigation into Hillary's email.

I would have loved to have heard that question asked and answered.

[MedusaX]

6. Today was intended to make public statement albeit

A limited one...

Senate Group clearly has more "classified" knowledge at this point...
but they hold hearings behind closed doors and are more serious about the situation.....

Comey & Senate Group basically used today's House Hearing to let the public (and GOP/Administration) know that virtually everyone is investigating the situation.....

Congressional investigations are one category but
FBI is looking at this from a criminal $/or national security perspective......
if they can continue to connect the communications / meetings to outcomes ....
and possibly even identify related monetary or value based transactions
Then it will become a RICO case....
Which is more than likely.