The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that they will continue looking into allegations made by an intelligence community whistleblower, who has accused President Trump of abusing his office and the White House of covering it up.
The rickety wheels are slowly starting to come off the orange Trump wagon…
Yeah, right. Color me skeptical.
While napping to Chuck Todd and MTP one of his guests remarked that WH counsel would have been involved in the memo/transcript. So if you’re WH counsel and you’re helping to mop up the criminal mess Trump made do you become an accessory after the act?
I trust any process led by the GOP as far as I can shit in the air while standing on my head.
“When you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.” (attributed to various.) It is beginning to dawn on some of them that we’ve got them by the balls.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
Is he gonna be a back channel to the WH like he was last time?
Why yes, you do, as a matter of fact.
The whistle blower makes it clear that key sources for his complaint were “White House officials.” White House officials were concerned that Trump was abusing his office; White House officials thought that abuse was being covered up. When is Congress going to call for their names, and bring them to testify? Trump is threatening the whistle blower’s life. The proper object of his threats is the people who work for him in the White House.
I don’t think this point is getting nearly enough attention.
In the next few days/weeks. This isn’t going to happen overnight. We all need to take deep breaths and keep reminding ourselves of that.
He warned that the committee would not be moving at “light speed” like its counterpart in the House,
Oh, no doubt. Wasn’t Burr the guy who was leaking privileged information back to the White House to keep them abreast of whatever the Senate Intelligence Committee learned? Trust him at your own risk, Senator Warner. They’re all Republicans first and patriots last.
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) told reporters as he was leaving the briefing that he was “confident” the committee will hear from the whistleblower himself.
Now that the New York Times has essentially outed the whistleblower, Roy should’ve been a little more blunt and added “if he lives long enough.”
Oh boy.
This is going to be another situation where the lawyers are going to need lawyers. And probably those lawyers will need lawyers too.
It probably means the only lawyer around for the rest of us will be…Michael Cohen. I hope he hasn’t been disbarred yet. A lonely country casts its eyes upon him.
Yeah I’d rather leave it to the House, Burr. I don’t trust you.
Spare me- Burr was Cheetos Putin inside man during the Mueller fiasco.
Actually I think those people were the objects of his threats:
“I want to know who’s the person who gave the whistle-blower the information because that’s close to a spy,” Trump said, according to notes from an attendee at the event shared with the Times. “You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now.”
He warned that the committee would not be moving at “light speed” like its counterpart in the House, but said the committee staff will be “extremely busy for the next couple weeks” while the Senate is on recess.
Does it seem to anyone else he’s a mite envious of Congressman Schiff? Maybe if he did his job ethically and fulfilled his responsibilities to the American people, he too, would have the respect Schiff has earned.
Cohen attorney Lanny Davis has said he has contacted all of the chairmen of all the House committees investigating Cockholster stating that his client would be happy to testify before any and all of them.
That’d be a beautiful thing given that Cohen knows where the bodies are buried.
Oddly enough, though, none of them have yet to respond. “They’ve been very busy,” Davis noted.
That was Lyndon Baines Johnson on how to conduct the Vietnam War, when the CIA et al. were claiming that they had a “Hearts and Minds Program” to dissuade the Vietnamese from continuing to resist the US military aggression. Johnson scoffed at the concept and the saying followed that scoffing.