GOP senator subpoenas FBI over Russia, defends Biden probe

[turbinetree]

Source: Associated Press

By ERIC TUCKER
today





WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said Monday that he has subpoenaed the FBI to produce documents to his committee related to the Trump-Russia investigation.

The Wisconsin senator also defended a separate investigation he is leading into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Ukraine, even as Democrats say the probe has the effect of amplifying Russian propaganda and as U.S. intelligence officials say they have assessed that Russia is working to denigrate Biden ahead of the November election.

Johnson’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is one of multiple Republican-led Senate panels scrutinizing the FBI’s investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Another, the Judiciary Committee, has released a series of documents in recent weeks aimed at discrediting the probe, including material on Sunday that the chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, said raised questions about whether the FBI had misled Congress about the accuracy of information it received during the investigation.

The subpoena demands that the FBI produce by Aug. 20 the records that it gave to the Justice Department inspector general’s office, which concluded in a report last December that the Russia investigation had been opened for a valid reason but that the FBI had made significant errors during its surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser.

Read more: https://apnews.com/b85d3a8373e0b952ef4f07b310ef6f0c

---

-snip-

And this asshole has nothing else better to do................

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Feel free to ignore....just like the DOJ does subpoenas.

[Botany]

2. Red Square Republicans .... July 4 2018 going to Moscow

“What does July 4th mean to me? Freedom,” Sen. Ron Johnson chirruped on Twitter on Independence Day.

For the Wisconsin Republican, it meant, specifically, the freedom to spend July 4 in Moscow with seven other Republican lawmakers posing for propaganda photos with Russian officials. On the same day it was reported in Britain that two more people had been poisoned
by a Russian nerve agent British officials say came from Vladimir Putin’s regime. On the day after the Senate Intelligence Committee affirmed the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump.

Johnson and his colleagues apparently exercised their freedom not to meet with opposition or civil society figures (those whom the Putin regime has not imprisoned or killed), avoiding the risk of offending their hosts. They also exercised their freedom to soft-pedal their criticism of the Russian government, leading Russian politicians and state media to mock them as supplicants.

snip


So, what do we call these Red Square Republicans? My interlocutors on Twitter suggest “Moscow Mules.” Or, given the position they put themselves in before our masters in Moscow, perhaps they should be called the Prostrate Eight: Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.), John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Ron Johnson, plus Rep. Kay Granger (Tex.).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html

[Evolve Dammit]

13. This was a major "event" that did not get much coverage. "Moscow Mules" indeed. Traitors.

[stillcool]

15. that's one 4th of July I'll never forget...

Link to tweet

[oasis]

17. +1,000,000x1,000,000.

[Catch2.2]

16. I prefer to call them...

Traitors!

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Traitor following his greed by destroying the Federal State

Libertarians nothing more nothing less

[dalton99a]

4. .

“I’ve been pretty upfront that the election interference — as serious as that was, and unacceptable — is not the greatest threat to our democracy,” Sen. Ron Johnson said in an interview with the Washington Examiner published over the weekend. “We’ve blown it way out of proportion.”

[Botany]

6. In 2016 Russ Feingold was @ 90% of winning back his senate seat in Wisconsin but ...

... somehow Ron Johnson "won" the race thanx in a large part because of Russian help.

https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/

[dalton99a]

8. +1. Putin owns Johnson.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Fully paid for

[nordenbluejay]

7. nordenbluejay

He will have plenty of GOP help. South Dakota Senators Thune and Rounds have nothing else to do. Rounds is up for election but the Dem big brass won't support Dem candidate Ahlers. Dems National re-election committee is out to lunch as usual.

[Progressive Jones]

19. This amazes me because the Dems wouldn't have that many voters to reach out there. nt

[Thekaspervote]

9. ron johnson is a lying sack of shit...no better than his idiot king

[FM123]

10. Rachel Maddow brought this up the other night, she knew it was going to get worse

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russian-election-interference-finds-ready-conduit-in-gop-senators-89763397688

[Baked Potato]

11. Savin' the Party, one subpoena at a time. Trump's personal legal team.

[cstanleytech]

12. And yet the GOP did not launch a Russian investigation before this election

in the Senate over the claim by Trump that there was no collusion with Russia back in 2016.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Ron Johnson, another mental midget.

[Progressive Jones]

18. Two more years of this asshole, unless he has a hunting accident before then. nt