{"id":30995,"date":"2018-01-06T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T21:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30995"},"modified":"2018-01-06T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T21:24:27","slug":"steele-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/06\/steele-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Steele Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you look back a few years, you might remember how ObamaCare was sailing through the Senate, with Public Option attached.  There was no rush, because Republicans appeared to be negotiating in good faith, with Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on the verge of agreement for the Republican side.  What we did not know is that Lindsey Poo and Snake in the Grassley were just stalling for time, to allow Republicans to organize their sabotage of the bill with their Koch funded Tea Party Town Halls.  We saved the bill, but we lost the Public Option.  Eight years later, Lindsey Poo and Snake in the Grassley have joined the Republican Reich to sabotage what had appeared to be a bipartisan Senate investigation of Russia’s election activities here.  They have asked DOJ to indict Christopher Steele, of all people.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0106Pigs\"Christopher Steele is not the issue. Yet the former British intelligence official who wrote a series of unconfirmed reports on Trump-Russia connections during the 2016 campaign seems to have become the main target of congressional Republicans. On Friday, two Republican senators\u2014Charles Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina\u2014released a letter they had sent<\/a> the previous day to the Justice Department and the FBI requesting a criminal investigation of Steele. There have been no other known congressional criminal referrals related to the Russian attack on the 2016 presidential election or to interactions between Trump associates and Russians during the campaign.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Capitol Hill Republicans have intensified both their attack on special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s Trump-Russia investigation and their call for a quick end to the congressional inquiries. And with this move, Grassley and Graham are trying to bolster the Republicans\u2019 Trump-saving counter-narrative: the real scandal is the Steele dossier<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Pause for a moment and ponder this. The US intelligence community has concluded that Vladimir Putin ordered a clandestine act of information warfare against the United States to harm Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump during the election. And during that race, Trump\u2019s camp had a series of contacts with Russians or suspected cut-outs. Also throughout the time Putin\u2019s operation was under way, Trump and his lieutenants kept denying this assault was happening\u2014even after his top campaign aides were informed that Moscow wanted to secretly assist Trump and after Trump was briefed by US intelligence agencies that Russia was behind the hack-and-dump assaults targeting Clinton and the Democrats. That is, the public now knows that the United States was attacked by Putin, that Trump associates were interacting with Russians during this period, and that Trump and his crew, intentionally or not, provided cover for Moscow by insisting no such operation was occurring. <\/p>\n

Yet what now draws the ire of congressional Republicans the most is Steele and his reports<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I urge you to click through for the rest od David Corn’s article.<\/font><\/p>\n

If KKK Beauregard manages to get one of his flunkies to indict Steele, that will make him unwilling to travel to the US to give testimony for the Mueller investigation.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ari Melber also reported on this story.<\/font><\/p>\n