Grassley has betrayed the country

[BSdetect]

Allowing Kushner and Manafort to merely provide docs (and maybe testify at some time in the future) and going after the Steele Dossier funding source.

Drumph is getting the toadies to fall in line with his corruption.

Looks like he will sack Sessions and appoint a lacky to fire Mueller.

We are now fully locked into a fascist state.

Time to form a Blue Guard.

[Me.]

1. Go Ahead, Go For The Steele Funding Source You Fool

It was long ago attributed to Jeb Bush

[Frustratedlady]

2. Really? Jeb Bush?

[Hugin]

7. The Bush campaign was allegedly the source of the request.

But, then nothing is certain these days.

[Frustratedlady]

16. Thanks. I certainly missed that.

[Alice11111]

22. Yes. Jeb! was the original source. Some rumors say

the FBI &/or hillary may have continued it later.

[hibbing]

34. Please clap n/t

[Alice11111]

35. Jeb!

[Me.]

14. I Am Under The impression It was Bush

Though he has since denied it

“Steele was initially hired by FusionGPS, a Washington-based political research firm, to investigate Trump on behalf of unidentified Republicans who wanted to stop Trump's bid for the party's nomination. The BBC said on Wednesday, "He (Steele) was compiling this report on behalf of initially Trump's opponent Jeb Bush," referring to one of Trump's 16 opponents in the 2016 Republican primary.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-steele-idUSKBN14W0HN

[Frustratedlady]

15. I'll be darned. I totally missed that. Thank you.

[Me.]

17. !

[Roy Rolling]

19. Thinking the same thing

Please, air the dirty laundry of the Steele dossier in public. Once the since-verified items stack up as true the pee tape story becomes less deniable. Let's look at the dossier close-up. Please.

[Alice11111]

24. I read it on buzz feed right after it was leaked. Probably

still there. It doesn't look like a professional doc, but more like research notes. It has now been authenticated.

[emulatorloo]

33. Thanks for posting that link.

[MiddleClass]

3. Time for the people of Iowa to wake up if they want a judicial committee that investigates wrongdoin

Grassley is just a political hack nowadays, these just mailing it in.

Was told at a town hall that he's not doing enough investigating of Trump

[BannonsLiver]

6. Pretty sure the people of Iowa are getting what they voted for

hard to draw another conclusion looking at loony toons Ernst, Steve King, Grassley and the fact it was a solid trump state in November. If anything it's trending to the right and not slowly either.

[MiddleClass]

13. Looks that way

I think Obama won it twice, but Joni Steven are a pretty big tell

[Alice11111]

26. God...he makes me sick...he's right in there protecting

his boys. The question, at this point, is why does he stick his neck out to protect these cons, even if he is a
Repub? I'm suspicious.
Joni is sickening too, w her ball chopping ads.

[Kaleva]

4. They will still testify but it won't be public.

Trump can't outright appoint someone to be AG. He can nominate a candidate who then must be confirmed by the Senate. Comey was fired back in the beginning of May and we still don't have a Director of the FBI yet.

[MiddleClass]

8. I will bet you this request came from the White House

[Kaleva]

9. Senator Feinstein agreed to this.

[MiddleClass]

11. Hopefully, they have a pertinent classified question for them

I hope, she's not just being cordial, deferring to the chairman, like she would expect when she's chairwoman

[orangecrush]

23. Why?

That's my question.

[magicarpet]

20. The rethugs want the public to focus on ancillary issues.

The intent is to divert attention away from Russia or tr-dump admin. collusion with Russia.

Let's focus on instead of Russia, something else, we could manufacture a smokescreen.. Let's say without the fake, false and totally untrue Steele Dossier which is full of outright lies - there would be no Russia investigation or concerns of collusion, no Comey matter and no Mueller matter or open investigations of tr-dump but for the flagrant lie of the Steele Dossier.

So here is an idea - let us drop the Russian/tr-dump investigation and let us direct all resources to the Steele Dossier and just investigate the fraudulent way that came about.

Poof the Russian problem, the Russian collusion problem, the Comey problem, and the Mueller problem involving tr-dump magically just disappear.

It is like the Nunes smokescreen debacle. Take the focus off Flynn/Intel agency/Russian collusion/tr-dump - shutdown those inquiries.

Then open an inquiry about Obama administration unmasking and wiretapping team tr-dump.

There now ~ tr-dump is in the clear and suspicion has been cast elsewhere. The Re-thug party can now continue to dismantle Democracy and install a Fascist State.

[Alice11111]

28. They just voted him out of committee. It won't be long.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. He wants to know who funded the Steele Dossier?

IIRC, it is anti trump conservatives.........well unless Grassley is going to try to spin it to smear the Dems.

AFAIK, no one in the gov't or media has said or proved that anything in the dossier is true.

What is he trying to cover up? What is true, that Grassley doesn't want known.

[davekriss]

10. No different than 1998

(Impeachment of President Clinton - Grassley was one of the leaders of the House's impeachment hatchet crew back then.)

[Alice11111]

29. Evil man

[FakeNoose]

12. Remember when Comey testified behind closed doors?

He gave the Senate committee testimony on matters that are still under investigation.

If the "unproven" matters (and we can only speculate what they are) had been told on public TV they could have violated people's right to privacy, and their right to a fair trial. Also for reasons of national security having to do with certain espionage procedures. So there are usually good precedents for this kind of thing.

I think Mueller knows what he's doing. Let's give him some leeway here.

[Initech]

18. That whole party has betrayed America.

This whole administration and everyone connected to it have failed this country.

[Alice11111]

31. Yep. A few Repubs are clean. Many are traitors, caught up

In the Trump cover up, stealing the election, Russians, $$$

[pnwmom]

21. They will ask better questions at a future date if they have time to examine the documents first.

And they'll probably only get one shot at questioning them, so it could be better this way.

[orangecrush]

25. Or...

It will give the lying traitorous scum more time to get their lies straight.

[mythology]

27. Why do people feel like tossing around words like fascist makes for a great insult?

I'm sorry, but the sky isn't falling, we're not "fully locked into a fascist state". It helps if you actually understand basic facts like Trump can't just appoint an Attorney General. Getting basic facts like that wrong while crying wolf really undercuts the argument.

[OldRedneck]

30. You need to read . . .

You need to read this article by TPM:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-president-at-war

Trump has decided he and his family are above the law. He is putting in place all the parts needed to limit Mueller's investigation; fire Mueller if necessary; appoint a new AG to fire Mueller; pardon his aides, family and himself.

Trump knows that his entire business career is crooked and will not stand up to legal scrutiny, thus, he is putting himself and his family outside the reach of the law.

If that's not fascist, I don't know what is.

[Alice11111]

32. The problem is he pushes the limits & often gets away with

things others would not even try to do.

[kacekwl]

36. If Trump can't just appoint an AG

how did Sessions get there ?

[Blindingly apparent]

37. There are 14 characteristics of the fascistic state

Trump's administration displays nine of them. Trump is manipulating two other traits: Control of the press "fake news" and fraudulent erections "Voting integrity commission"

[link:https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html|

[BSdetect]

38. I'm not "tossing" around the word fascist lightly.

Its a statement of fact.

The USA has a terrible election system and the Russians have sown deep chaos easily. The Constitution is fraught with ridiculous notions re impeachment.

The IC has failed in my humble opinion. Totally failed to prevent this outrage. Now we depend on a flimsy process subject to a huge extent on the whims of a fuckwit POTUS.