Take a look at all the people in the White House that are providing a gazillion jobs for Washington lawyers as they get ready to confront lie detector Mueller’s investigation. Trump is obviously at the top of the obstruction of justice investigation. But how many people did he tell that he didn’t want the FBI investigating the Russian matter? And then how many of those people talked to Senators or the media and tried to claim the FBI investigation was fake or misleading?
From the Washington Post (FEB)
The administration’s push against the Russia coverage intensified Sunday when White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said in television interviews that he had been authorized “by the top levels of the intelligence community” to denounce reports on Trump campaign contacts with Russia as false.
Priebus’s denunciations ranged from calling the articles “overstated” to saying they were “complete garbage.”
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Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he called CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Burr to express his “grave concerns about what this means for the independence” of the investigation.
“I am consulting with members of the Intelligence Committee to determine an appropriate course of action so we can ensure that the American people get the thorough, impartial investigation that they deserve, free from White House interference,” Warner said in a statement Friday night.
Anyone who has knowledge about collusion with the Russian attack on our democracy, and then makes statements like those above, might be investigated for possible conspiracy.
Conspiracy to obstruct justice was one of the main charges against many in the Nixon administration during the Watergate investigation. Senator Blumenthal has been doing a wonderful job of trying to bring this important matter to the forefront of media coverage.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, Blumenthal discussed his and his Democratic colleagues’ call for a review of Kushner’s security clearance and then proceeded to make the significant observation with regard to potential charges of conspiracy:
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BLUMENTHAL: I’ve asked today, as a matter of fact, Chris, along with two of my colleagues, Senators Franken and Hirono, and, on the House side, Congressman Cummings, that his [Jared Kushner’s] security clearance be reviewed.
Two reasons. First of all, among others, that he had these clandestine conversations with the head of the major bank in Russia, who had ties to Putin and to the intelligence community in Russia. And second, this effort to establish a back channel using Russian diplomatic facilities. So, those potential errors in judgment — not to mention divulging confidential information — require a security clearance review for him.
And I think there is an untold and unused term here, which is very important to understand, and that term is conspiracy. Because, if Flynn, and others in the White House, in any way agreed or even cooperated — or even some of them agreed and others cooperated — there could be a potential conspiracy charge against any one of them or all of them.
Senator Blumenthal should get a special hat tip from the resistance for his efforts to expand the investigation into a likely conspiracy among the Trump regime’s inner circle.
RESIST!