Lawmakers launch new probe into 'complex web' of alleged ties between NRA, Russians
Source: ABC News
By Pete Madden and Matthew Mosk 25m ago
A pair of House Democrats are launching a new probe of what they called the complex web of relationships between members of the National Rifle Association and Russian individuals with close ties to the Kremlin.
In a letter members said they were sending to NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, a copy of which was shared with ABC News, Rep. Ted Lieu of California and Rep. Kathleen Rice of New York expressed concern about the NRAs attempts to distance itself from any formal involvement in a now infamous trip to Moscow undertaken by a group of its high-ranking members.
While the NRAs outside counsel William Brewer told The New York Times that LaPierre was opposed to the trip and even prohibited staff members from joining the delegation out of concern that it would be perceived as officially sanctioned, internal NRA emails and photos posted on social media reviewed by ABC News appear to show the organization was significantly involved in planning it.
Lieu, a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and Rice, a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, suggested the discrepancy might be evidence of a broader deception and requested a full accounting of any communications, meetings and monetary transactions between NRA officials and Russia-linked individuals.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lawmakers-launch-probe-complex-web-alleged-ties-nra/story?id=61137356
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)election where NRA had $$$$ show up for their PAC action on behalf of trump.
I think Russians/Putin forget that we have a way to find things out in America when we choose to do it.
safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)Just might be a duck.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)The need to build a new jail facility seems to be shaping up. There are so many people from this corrupt administration who should and hopefully will go to jail, and those who conspired with them, that a new jail facility will have to be built to put them all in. Ivanka is ok, there is room for her in a women's jail, but the rest?
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)a lot of nonviolent drug offenders and put the real criminals in jail.
lastlib
(23,224 posts)with Maria Butina....
deek
(3,414 posts)He loves to have his name on buildings.....
As long as he does not profit from it.
jpak
(41,757 posts)What's good for the goose is good for the gander....
Botany
(70,501 posts)Russian money to the NRA then the NRA buys tv and social media ads and because
of Citizen's United this "dirty money" stays hidden.
Trump's firewall to stop all these investigations and criminal charges is all those republican
senators who took russian/nra money and or traveled to Russia last summer.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)A Commission looking at all corruption that's running wild from trump and the Republicans, and any Democrats involved in it also.
JudyM
(29,236 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)investigating the perpetrators of NRA, Russia and the Republican party into damaging and destroying the USA's democracy, the Republican party continues to destroy our ICs and install unqualified nut cases into our legal courts and ICs.
Fuzzpope
(602 posts)I see a fundamental flaw in these types of congressional inquiries, in the assumption that the suspected parties would cooperate in the slightest in self incrimination.
I don't see how they could possibly learn anything of tangible use unless the inquiry included evidence obtained in sting operations by law enforcement.
The NRA is going to laugh in their faces and lie through their teeth. I just don't see this being a productive use of our very limited congressional authority.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)in Maria Butina.
I dislike the term "perjury trap", but here is their chance to get busted while bullshitting!