Investigator on Trump/Russia: "If you'd seen what I had seen you'd want me to go full throttle"

[DonViejo]

Every day I will collect information on the needs of the island and how you can help.

BY VERÓNICA
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

While the American public seems to be learning more and more as multiple investigations into President Trump and his campaign move forward, there is no doubt that members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees know much more than what we all do. After all, multiple key witnesses have already been interviewed in private, under oath, by both committees.

This week, however, Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, let the cat out of the bag, making it clear that the information that investigators are still keeping under wraps seems quite damning to the administration.

“If you had seen what I had seen you’d want me to go full throttle,” Quigley told those on hand at a discussion he took part in at the DePaul University College of Law, while discussing the Trump investigation that is currently underway in the House.

Quigley then went on to convey a sense of urgency surrounding the investigations into Trump, as he feels that there is a very good chance that the President will soon fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

“We live with the very real threat that the Mueller investigation gets shut down,” he warned. “One of the reasons I speak the way I do when I message about this is I’m worried about a constitutional crisis. I think there is a reason [Trump] speaks to the base in the manner in which he does. He’s prepping them, girding them for this.”

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[Achilleaze]

1. Go full throttle for the sake of America

Then prosecute and incarcerate republican TreasonWeasels.

Lock them up.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Agree!

[ailsagirl]

15. Amen!!

Just what, exactly, does it take??????

[RoBear]

31. When I hear "lock them up"

I think "string 'em up!"

I am generally a peaceful person, but I think we should go back to the traditional treatment of treasonous bastards. Then we can gather around chanting "you're fired!"

So much for my fantasy.

Of course I'm "just kidding"!!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. This is bad news, if trump knows they have the goods, he will fire them.

And then the deplorables will support the traitor, we will have no choice but to do nothing

[delisen]

4. Trump can't shut down state investigations

so that avenue to justice might continue.

[Eliot Rosewater]

25. Schneiderman is our only hope.

Now NY State AG have a rich history, one of the greatest Attorney's General of all time was the NY State AG

ELLIOT SPITZER

Great man.

[pangaia]

28. Spitzer YES!!!!!!! MY AG.

And so of course is Schneiderman...

[Eliot Rosewater]

29. Spitzer is one of the most effective and patriotic and successful AG's in history and

exactly why the GOP framed him and ruined him.

GOP and the founder of Home Depot, an especially vile piece of shit.

[pangaia]

33. I met him once very briefly in Rochester NY.

At the same gathering were Bob Dufy, then mayor of Rochester, and Hillary Clinton.

I think it was at a fund raiser for Eric Massa who was running for Congress. He won in our republican district. I even campaigned for him. Later things took an unexpected turn.

[Eliot Rosewater]

34. He was successful, that was the problem.

He targeted big business and consumer protection, they HATE that.

[pangaia]

37. Eggsactlee...

[Alice11111]

40. I thought that way back when....I wish he could have made it as a news anchor.

The Republicans targeted him, as they did Bill Clinton. They targeted Obama too, but all they got was made up BS, that no one but a bunch of bigots cared about anyway.

[Mr.Bill]

6. He can't fire Congressmaen and Senators.

Although as long as republicans run the investigations nothing will happen. If we take back either house of Congress and the committee chairmanships, Trump and his family and cohorts better be studying Russian, because that's where they will have to flee to.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. I think Congress can appoint its own Special Prosecutor. . . . nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

30. Congress is run by the GOP, they will obstruct justice.

[Alice11111]

42. Yes it is.Plus, everything, even what the states do, will end up in SCOTUS anyway. One word:Gorsuch

That stolen seat could very will change the nature of our democracy, assuming we are even still a democracy. Jurisdiction? States' rights? Remember Bush v Gore, which, against all precedent, and against the Constitution, reached down, and overturned the State Supreme Court of Florida decision, in an area that is clearly reserved for the states.

Unless a number of Republicans revolt, in all branches, we are fucked. We, the people, have to keep screaming and making the consequences of the Republicans decisions known to all. The brave disabled people who demonstrated at Orin Hatch's hearing deserve awards.

[Maven]

5. FFS, we are going to 'decorum' and 'protocol' ourselves into extinction.

I realize the investigation needs to run its course, and we don't want to create chaos and mayhem. But the public has a right to know this information before he can do more damage. This information MUST come out. All of it, and soon.

[Plucketeer]

7. That's been my primary question all along!

I mean WTF???? How long do we have to continue dancing while the dance hall's burning down?

[whathehell]

9. +100

Right there with you.

[ailsagirl]

16. Me too!!!!!!!!

[whathehell]

18. Yep...I haven't:been able

to really relax since the day this POS was elected. Nothing feels very "safe" or normal and it's taking a toll on me.

[ailsagirl]

20. Feel EXACTLY the same

Sometimes I just can't bear to know the latest.

Depending on my mood, my reaction can be any (or all) of the following:



And we're nearly into the ninth month now. How much longer must we wait????

Thanks for letting me vent.

[pandr32]

23. You aptly illustrated how many of us feel

...here in America and all over the world--so much at stake, and wtf for?
Putin is only part of it.
We are looking at a whole class of psychopathic capitalist predators that do not care a twit for others and know they are above accountability. There are so many of them and the problem is so huge. The Dotard even said that he has friends that go to Africa to get rich. They leave people there fighting with machetes over scant resources. People in Puerto Rico and other nearby islands are on their own as they are facing a desperate situation. They likely won't even get the so-called help we send to Iraq to "rebuild"--because the territory is worthless to the monsters in power.
The Dotard has already thumbed his nose at the UN.
We are all putting faith in an election system and a justice system that we know have already failed us.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

38. Good summary!

"Psychopathic capitalist predators" are at the root of most all our problems. And they play a complacent, dumbed-down lemming-like populace like a cheap fiddle.

I see that portion of the human race as operating in a completely different, mostly invisible sphere of existence and they've built it so that it's almost untouchable. For example, when I first read up (within my very modest limits) on hedge funds and the complex financial instruments they invented prior to the 2007-2008 debt crisis, I knew we were screwed.

If it were not for the phenomenal amount of assets floating about only in their secret realm, there would be little reason to try to control every aspect of our lives. Almost every penny except what's needed for our basic, raw existence trickles up to them. If that ain't enough, they just print more.

Assholes without money are quite easy to deal with.

[pandr32]

44. Absolutely!

Well said

[tinrobot]

12. It's not protocol, it is called building a rock solid legal case.

If they don't have every bit of evidence in order, the accusations will not be believed and the case will fall apart.

Unfortunately, building a rock solid case takes attention to detail, which takes time. I suspect they know that time is of the essence, but it also has to be done right. It's a difficult juggling act, particularly when the GOP controls the process.

[elleng]

26. Right. THanks.

And people complain that 'nothing's happening.' Baloney!

[ananda]

8. And yet they are still keeping it under wraps ..

.. and nothing is happening ....

[lindysalsagal]

10. It's a global game of chicken. All betting each side has too much to lose to really pull the trigger

fRump will take them all down with him, so he thinks they'll leave him right where he is.

He could be right.

[Hekate]

11. Kick and Rec

[certainot]

13. his most important media tool he has is talk radio and dems ignore it

1500 radio stations and a near total unanimity of pro trump racist anti-liberal messaging, managing and informing his base, the reason this cloud of orange assholes got anywhere near the white house.

and many of them depend on pro sports and many universities to keep broadcasting sports on them

[whathehell]

19. I agree..

To their detriment, Dems have been VERY slow & ineffective with messaging.and ,"counter messaging".

[certainot]

22. it's worse than that - by slow you mean after it's too late

there is no counter messaging to talk radio - - it's a total monopoly so there's no competition and dems end up playing catchup, reacting after the fact because there is no left counterpart. its the only major medium they have complete control of.

until dems directly challenge rw radio they are ignoring it. we don't even poll for it. the countermessaging should be to challenge rw radio and there are many ways to do that

[ProfessorGAC]

27. Ya Think?

How many people benefiting from ACA didn't know ACA and Obamacare were the same damned thing?

Seems like that would have been a very easy message to get out there.

But, no!

[whathehell]

43. Yeah, I think..

We've got educated, whip smart people on our side.-- I will never understand their problem with communication.

[ProfessorGAC]

46. Me Too, WTH

If Frank Luntz can figure it out, so can anybody as smart or smarter than my dog!
I share your frownie face!

[ailsagirl]

14. Does that mean he's not (going full throttle)?

[Ccarmona]

17. Sense of Urgency I say if DT Fires Mueller

He’ll be Impeached.

[tblue37]

21. K&R for visibility. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

32. Yes political warfare is for election time

practiced at other points in the political cycle is preparing for something else.

It's very clear.

[Clarity2]

35. It sounds like

they have enough evidence to snag Dotard. I wish they would just wrap it up already. Or indict someone already, and let the dominoes fall! Before Dotard destroys the planet. This rhetoric exchange with NK is dead serious! We don't need perfection here. Can't they finish casting as "wide a net" as possible after he's been ousted?!

The entire world is literally severely stressed out because of this president. Social norms have been torn apart - Turkey coming here stirring up violence...congress is having peaceful protestors dragged out by their wheelchairs....the chaos is spreading like a virus. It NEEDS TO STOP!

[Orrex]

36. Trump's idiot racist fuckhead supporters will simply ignore an impeachment

To express their disgust and sense of betrayal, they will vote in unprecedented numbers for the most radical, far-Right Nazis on the ticket, the kind of candidates who make Tea Party Republicans look like Elizabeth Warren.

This will either destroy the Republican party or lock it into power long enough to destroy the country as a whole through violent civil war.

[LiberalLovinLug]

39. GET ON WITH IT THEN!

Yes, yes, they have to gather all the information, make a solid case, etc etc...blah blah blah

But the longer this drags out, the more Trump is normalized. Also the more time exists for some excuse to declare war and rally the military obsessed public around a common other enemy. So that even if he is indicted, we will have a battle royal on our hands with his army of deplorables. And it will pave the way for some high ranking Trump ally, with the same views, to be seen as a legitimate replacement for 2020.

I mean, from what has been leaked already, it sure seems like they have enough already to go public.

[Jamaal510]

41. K&R

[Delphinus]

45. That's quite

a quote - that he's girding his base for a crisis. Worrisome.