Cummings Announces Expanded Probe Into DeVos’ Personal Email Use

House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said Monday that he is expanding an investigation into Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ personal email use.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1235731
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But what about Hillary’s e-mails?

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Start paddling, Boopsie, it’s getting deep.

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Will there be a point when we stop the investigations and just ‘frog walk’ these assholes to the slammer?

Just wondering on this, day 906, of hell.

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Why would a letter to anyone in the Trumpov Badministration be addressed “To the Honorable”?

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Lock her up!!!

Sadly, it has been proven that use of a personal email address/server is not an issue unless you are a Democrat… the precedent has already been encoded into law.

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It doesn’t do any good to drive these people from office, Trump will just appoint someone who is as bad or worse. They need to get indicted and sent to jail but that won’t happen until we have a Dem POTUS. Obama messed up by not going after the war criminals and financial grifters from the Bush Junior administration. The Dems can’t make that mistake again or we will get another repeat of the Trump administration

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How much more “investigating” is necessary given what Cummings stated has already occurred?

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What @bankerpup said.

But I’d also add this: This administration provides such a target-rich environment for a Dem-controlled House that, relatively speaking (and not to trivialize), I’d say they have bigger fish to fry than this.

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The Tweets write themselves. I’m not saying that this doesn’t need to be done, but you can imagine the “Whatabouting” and “They should investigate…instead” that we are about to endure.

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Great, now Trump will have to expose Elijah Cummings for being the anti-American, terrorist loving communist he is.

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Only the best people are above the law.

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Felix Sater testified last Tuesday in a closed hearing.
Not even a mention in the news. Must have been a boring hearing.

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The fact neither Dems or GOPers felt leaking intel favorable to their side was warranted doesn’t auger well for it being fruitful for anyone.

Another investigation that will go on endlessly…sigh.

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Dear Lord, you still whining? Why aren’t you out in the streets with a pitchfork and torch?

Oh, right, because it wouldn’t fucking do a thing.

We’re a nation of Laws. Just like Rome wasn’t built in a day, all of this shit takes time.

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Its getting quite sad to watch. Cummings has threatened, negotiated, even issued actual subpoenas, and gotten nothing as a result. KAC blowing him off is the most recent example.

Its like he is going to each member of the administration, just hoping he will find one who will at least go through the proper dance steps with him. And of course, none of them will. DeVos won’t be any different.

Oh, and bear in mind, Cummings still HASN’T issued a subpoena, and is still “negotiating” regarding getting anyone from the administration to appear before his committee with regards to how security clearances are given out.

I understand the theory of “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s” because it will all eventually end up in Court. But I think Dems screwed the pooch on this stuff early on by not slamming down hard on the first refused subpoena. Like, stop everything else, nothing moves and nothing gets talked about but getting this person in front of Congress…either dragged there in irons, or meekly on their own accord. Because once that precedent got set, the Administration has just run with it, and will continue to do so.

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maybe because everyone deserves their day in court and everyone is innocent until proven otherwise?
:nauseated_face:

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