Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) have broken up over Russia.
The committee’s once bipartisan investigation into whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice or his campaign colluded with Russia has hit a partisan wall, with Republicans and Democrats saying they will now conduct their own probes. “We made the decision to go and carry it out ourselves,” Feinstein told Mother Jones on Tuesday. “They can go ahead and do whatever it is they wanted to do.” A Grassley spokesman also said the chairman had decided to proceed with a Republican-only investigation.
Judiciary’s Russia investigation is the latest congressional probe to stall out over GOP efforts to pursue matters Democrats see as gambits to distract or provide cover for the Trump administration. The partisan sparring within the committees looking into various aspects of the Russia scandal has caused concern among Democrats and other observers that Republicans will fail to complete rigorous probes but will still declare their investigations did not find significant collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
While I have virtually NO confidence in Congress's ability, or desire, to get to the truth. I kind of thought that the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees might have a fair shot at it.
After all they were saying all the right things, and Senate does not seem nearly as partisan as the House.
However apparently that faith has been misplaced.
And now we see why having the Robert Mueller investigation working independently is so damn important.
If Trump finds away to sabotage that, then this whole thing will simply disappear forever and we will NEVER learn the truth.
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