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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to request documents about former FBI director James B. Comey's conversations with the Obama administration and journalists, amending and replacing a Democratic resolution that was designed to obtain documents about Comey's firing by President Donald Trump.

"In my district, my constituents say, 'Hey, what's going on with investigation of the crimes of the previous administration?' " said Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., one of the amendment's sponsors. "When I hear talk that this contains right-wing conspiracies - well, I'll tell you, my constituents think what's going on in the other bill are left-wing conspiracy theories."

The amendment was a surprise to Rep. Primala Jayapal, D-Wash., the freshman who had proposed the Democratic resolution of inquiry, which had been expected to fail. In a heated markup, Jayapal and other committee Democrats expressed amazement that Republicans wanted to resurrect questions about the defeated Clinton campaign.

"There appears to be deliberate stonewalling to stop any inquiry into the questions facing us today," she said. "You want to have another beating of the dead horse of Hillary Clinton and her emails? Fine, I'll include it. But let's have another opportunity to debate."

But over several hours, the drama and farce of the 2016 campaign - and even Bill Clinton's 1998 impeachment - played out again between Judiciary members. Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, an impeachment manager and a senior member of the committee, chastened Democrats who said that Clinton had been impeached over a mere sex scandal.

"Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury," said Chabot. "It had something to do with the fact that he had a history of sexual harassment of women."

"We have a lot more than a blue dress now," said Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., referring to evidence in the Clinton impeachment.

Republicans argued otherwise, sometimes suggesting that Jayapal's amendment asked the committee to repeat work that special counsel Robert Mueller was already doing, and sometimes suggesting that the Mueller investigation was unfair.

"They're not focused on things like the Clinton Foundation functionally selling access to the State Department; they're not worried about selling uranium to the Russians; they're not worried about unmasking," said Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., another amendment sponsor, referring to Democrats.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, another sponsor, suggested a probe of Comey's interactions with sources, the Obama administration, and especially former Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch. After referring to part of the amendment that asked for documents about Lynch's tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton in Phoenix, just a few days before her FBI interview, Jordan argued that Comey also needed to explain why he followed apparent advice from Lynch to call the Clinton email probe a "matter" instead of an investigation.

"Last time I checked, he wasn't director of the Federal Bureau of Matters," said Jordan. "We've got all these investigations about Putin's influence in our election. How about the Obama administration's influence on our election?

Democrats, lacking the votes to stop the amendment, expressed their amazement at the Republican push. "This is the most astonishing moment I've ever experienced in the Judiciary Committee," said Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn. "To take a question about the firing of James B. Comey and turn it into a question about Hillary Clinton? The chairman has left the room. Justice has left this room. Common sense has left this room. A lot of stuff has left this room, and maybe never entered it."

But the amendment passed, and the altered resolution passed on a 16-13 partisan vote, giving it a chance to be approved by the House.

Bwahahahaha! That's great.

There are some unanswered questions there, aren't there.

Awesome.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
There are some unanswered questions there, aren't there.

Ya think. Maybe it'll all start to unravel and we'll find out the russia fanaticism was an effort to distract the adults running the country.

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"This is the most astonishing moment I've ever experienced in the Judiciary Committee," said Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn. "To take a question about the firing of James B. Comey and turn it into a question about Hillary Clinton? The chairman has left the room. Justice has left this room. Common sense has left this room. A lot of stuff has left this room, and maybe never entered it."

And you're a blubbering idiot, Steve.

And given the complete farce that the Republican's "repeal Obamacare" promise has become, does anybody really expect anything substantive to emerge from this Comey/Hillary investigation? If you do, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell you!

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Originally posted by tsmccull:
And given the complete farce that the Republican's "repeal Obamacare" promise has become, does anybody really expect anything substantive to emerge from this Comey/Hillary investigation? If you do, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell you!

Thanks for the very unwelcome yet predictable negativity.

So, why is this not being covered?
Drudge, Breitbart, FOX

Its about damn time!

Give it some time, and actual reaction / response from DOJ.


The specific areas for which a special counsel is requested to be appointed to investigate are as follows:

Then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch directing Mr. Comey to mislead the American people on the nature of the Clinton investigation;

The shadow cast over our system of justice concerning Secretary Clinton and her involvement in mishandling classified information;

FBI and DOJ’s investigative decisions related to former Secretary Clinton’s email investigation, including the propriety and consequence of immunity deals given to potential Clinton co-conspirators Cheryl Mills, Heather Samuelson, John Bentel and possibly others;

The apparent failure of DOJ to empanel a grand jury to investigate allegations of mishandling of classified information by Hillary Clinton and her associates;

The Department of State and its employees’ involvement in determining which communications of Secretary Clinton’s and her associates to turn over for public scrutiny;

WikiLeaks disclosures concerning the Clinton Foundation and its potentially unlawful international dealings;

Connections between the Clinton campaign, or the Clinton Foundation, and foreign entities, including those from Russia and Ukraine;

Mr. Comey’s knowledge of the purchase of Uranium One by the company Rosatom, whether the approval of the sale was connected to any donations made to the Clinton Foundation, and what role Secretary Clinton played in the approval of that sale that had national security ramifications;

Disclosures arising from unlawful access to the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) computer systems, including inappropriate collusion between the DNC and the Clinton campaign to undermine Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign;

Post-election accusations by the President that he was wiretapped by the previous Administration, and whether Mr. Comey and Ms. Lynch had any knowledge of efforts made by any federal agency to unlawfully monitor communications of then-candidate Trump or his associates;

Selected leaks of classified information related to the unmasking of U.S. person identities incidentally collected upon by the intelligence community, including an assessment of whether anyone in the Obama Administration, including Mr. Comey, Ms. Lynch, Ms. Susan Rice, Ms. Samantha Power, or others, had any knowledge about the “unmasking” of individuals on then candidate-Trump’s campaign team, transition team, or both;

Admitted leaks by Mr. Comey to Columbia University law professor, Daniel Richman, regarding conversations between Mr. Comey and President Trump, how the leaked information was purposefully released to lead to the appointment of a special counsel, and whether any classified information was included in the now infamous “Comey memos”;

Mr. Comey’s and the FBI’s apparent reliance on “Fusion GPS” in its investigation of the Trump campaign, including the company’s creation of a “dossier” of information about Mr. Trump, that dossier’s commission and dissemination in the months before and after the 2016 election, whether the FBI paid anyone connected to the dossier, and the intelligence sources of Fusion GPS or any person or company working for Fusion GPS and its affiliates; and

Any and all potential leaks originated by Mr. Comey and provide to author Michael Schmidt dating back to 1993.


http://www.redstate.com/diary/...l-what-you-wish-for/

http://thehill.com/homenews/ho...ecial-counsel-report

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...-lynch-and-more.html

http://www.rollcall.com/news/p...uments-clinton-probe

https://www.weaselzippers.us/3...clinton-comey-lynch/

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07...er&utm_medium=Social

I hope they gut the whole gang of 'em like hooked tuna.