The 3 investigations into Trump and Russia are all hopelessly compromised

[Bill USA]

[font size="+1"]The case for an independent investigation just got stronger.[/font]



https://thinkprogress.org/the-three-investigations-into-trump-and-russia-are-all-hopelessly-compromised-3f277465f601#.3a6sv65rg

The lawmakers in charge of investigating possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives are also helping the Trump campaign counter negative news stories, according to reporting by The Washington Post and Axios.

The news — confirmed by the White House and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), one of the lawmakers — is a strong blow to the credibility of the congressional investigation and any appearance that the investigation is being conducted free from political influence.

According to the reports, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer asked Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Nunes to speak to reporters and dispute stories alleging frequent contact between Trump campaign members and Russian intelligence operatives. Burr picked up the phone at Spicer’s request and told reporters the story was false, Axios reports, but didn’t provide any evidence to back it up, and wasn’t quoted on the record.

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Nunes, on Saturday, likened the news reports and ongoing investigation to McCarthyism.

“This is almost like McCarthyism revisited,” he told reporters, calling the investigation and calls for a special prosecutor a “witch hunt.”

“At this point, there’s nothing there,” Nunes said. “We can’t go on a witch hunt against the American people, any American people who have not had any contact, just because they appeared in a news story.” (yeah, that's because the committee hasn't heard testimony from anybody yet!)
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Nunes perhaps achieves the most outrageous level of hypocrisy, speaking as he is for the Party which is the master of McCarthyist campaigns - in particular the 3 yr long, 8 committee investigations Sec of State, Hillary Clinton, which GOP operatives admitted were intended not to find out any 'truths' about Benghazi, but were intended to hurt Clinton politically. Nunes expressing 'concerns' about uses of McCarthyist inquiries is like Jack the Ripper speaking out for more police protection for streetwalkers killed on the streets of London.

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Good to know that the GOP motto is "country before Party". We did not realize that the Country was Russia.