Discussion: Former AG Sally Yates To Testify May 8 In Congressional Russia Probe

We could have predicted that the GOP in Congress would sabotage any investigations into Trump’s possible crimes. He’s just too convenient as a useful idiot. They’ll keep him around as long as he helps them with their agenda which is nutty and destructive in its own way.
I’ve been following US politics since Ike and before I could vote.
This is the scariest things have ever been by a long shot. Even the Cuban Missile Crisis was over in 13 days.

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I will believe this when I see it. As long as Repubs control both houses of the legislative branch, this is highly unlikely.

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Are you fucking kidding me? May 8th? Another two weeks?!

Now we have reports that Sen. Burr is stonewalling Democrats just as Nunes did in the house (well, maybe not as bad as Nunes, he was a moron).

75% of the American public wants to see an independent commission. What are we going to do, have a year of worthless investigations in the house and senate that find nothing because they don’t even have Trump and his family’s taxes? (if you don’t have a forensic accounting of his taxes you have no business calling yourself an investigation)

This is such horseshit.

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I’m wondering if this (late) date is the result of the ongoing inquiry by the FBI. Was there possible coordination with Comey to put this first Congressional (Senate) hearing off so far in the future?

Don’t misunderstand – I am GLAD we’re moving forward … but it’s so slow and I feel that’s deliberate. Partisan on the part of the Republicans? Don’t know for sure.

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Watch your back, Ms. Yates. I am not kidding.

Meanwhile, Trump and Co. are more brazen than ever. Running ads for Mar-A-Lago on the State Dept. website, refusing to turn over records on Flynn….this stuff alongside the latest reports about trouble in both the House and Senate investigations, and the article on Comey….leaves me more worried than ever. We should be rising up en masse and marching on the Capitol steps.

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I’m wondering if the negative press on the Senate committee is what actually got this on the calendar at all. Well, we may get this one open hearing out of them wanting to look like something is happening.

ETA:

I know. When’s the “Independent Investigation Now” March?

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I hope Sally Yates is well-guarded…

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Exactly.

I honestly think people are angry and frustrated and scared enough, that if someone with leadership qualities called for an uprising, there would be one. But it could get ugly. But wtf….are we supposed to just sit home and watch our country stolen out from under us?

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There’s an upside to the maddeningly deliberate pace of the investigation (FBI and Senate, I don’t acknowledge the House one as legitimate): The more time Trump and his gang have to engage in a cover up, the more laws they’ll break.

Whenever Sally gets her close-up it’ll be memorable. Central casting couldn’t send over a woman that would intimidate Trump more.

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Remember it well, the ‘good old days’. And you’re right, this is scary. I’m holding out for Comey to do the right thing. If he doesn’t and drags this out much longer, that should be the writing on the wall. Democracy is done if people involved in espionage and or treason can simply walk away while government twittles its thumbs.

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Half of me agrees with you on the slow pace of the investigation. The other half wants this investigation to last (and remain in the news) through the 2018 elections.

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Remember the secret investigations that were going to take down Scott Walker any day now? Man, i really hope these investigations don’t end up like those did. I’d like to believe something will come of these Russia investigations, but… I would definitely would not put it past the GOP, or the Russians, or GOP allies inside relevant agencies, to successfully stymie these investigations. Luckily, Nunes wasn’t even half-competent and his attempt backfired. But there are many ways to gum up the works here.

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Somewhat OT, the common theme is “oversight”: Chaffetz is suddenly getting around to doing a handful of things (after saying he is on his way out)…

And just saw TPM has its own post on the topic.

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Partisan on the part of the Republicans? Don’t know for sure.

Come on b/c, you do know for sure. My Sen Burr is playing Sen Warner for the fool. When it comes out yesterday that the seven staffers doing all the donkey work of this sham of an ‘investigation’ are all part timers, with no investigative experience, fluency in Russian language or history and not one a lawyer, you have to wonder. And when this embarrassing news broke the committee added two more staffers. Yes, part timers.

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LOL. I had a moment of … well, diplomacy (hypoglycemia … needed lunch). Unfortunately, the Republicans have not a clue what that is: Diplomacy or food for poor people.

Okay, I got protein and some sugars … WTF! Why so far off? Are they planning on killing Ms. Yates? Seriously, I would not put it past Current Occupant or his scary followers. And, yes, the Republicans (seems ALL of them) are turning a blind eye here. God Damn the Republicans

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I think the US IC is coming for Flynn, Stone, Page, Manafort, Trump, McConnell, Ryan, et al. I think the biggest and scariest challenge we’ll face is when it’s revealed that the vast majority of “elected” officials in the majority party are in the pay of a foreign oligarchy. THAT is the moment for the Constitutional crisis.

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Agreed. When the shit starts getting real, it’ll be difficult to keep up with each individual implicated and what role they played. Thank FSM for the rather diligent journalists following this, as well as the IC folks working behind the scenes.

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Excuse my ‘excitability’ problem but yesterday when i read what was really going on it reminded me that when dealing with low life like the republicans on this committee you have to ask all the obvious questions. You cannot assume anything, like the staffers are full time employees with investigative experience. And if you don’t ask, you’ll never know - till down the road when you’re the last one sitting in the bar that doesn’t know your girlfriend/boyfriend is also fucking your best friend sitting next to you. Hate when that happens.

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My first thought too…