House Democrats Pushing Russia-Collusion to Distract Away From “Unmasking” Scandal

Mike Conaway (R-TX) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) as well as other House Democrats have made announcements today regarding a round of subpoenas that have been issued to both former national security adviser Michael Flynn and President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen.

“As part of our ongoing investigation into Russian active measures during the 2016 campaign, today we approved subpoenas for several individuals for testimony, personal documents and business records,” said a joint statement from Reps. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who are leading the House committee’s inquiry. “We hope and expect that anyone called to testify or provide documents will comply with that request, so that we may gain all the information within the scope of our investigation. We will continue to pursue this investigation wherever the facts may lead.”

The subpoenas are evidence of a ramped-up and expanding investigation in Congress. The House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee are the dominant committees leading the congressional probes.

The latest committee action shows that lawmakers have not given up their own Russia investigations despite a separate FBI probe led by former FBI director Robert Mueller, who was appointed as special counsel by Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein on May 17.

These are merely a distraction however from the actual worry that Democrats have regarding the apparent illegal “unmasking” of Trump officials’ names prior to Inauguration Day when national security adviser Susan Rice and former CIA Director John Brennan. This is a much more evidence-supported charge and that worries the Democrats, so much so that these bogus Russian-collusion charges will continue to be tossed about in an effort to shut down inquiry into the seditious “unmasking” activities by upper-level Obama appointees and cronies

With the firing of the three Obama shadow weasels just recently, there are bound to be others that follow and that is yet another very troubling obstacle for the Leftists in the intelligence communities and Congress.

Cohen’s name surfaced last year in an unsubstantiated dossier prepared by a former British intelligence agent, alleging that the lawyer attended a meeting in Prague to discuss Russia’s targeting of Democrats for hacking operations.

“To date, there has not been a single witness, document or piece of evidence linking me to this fake Russian conspiracy,” Cohen said in a text message to USA TODAY on Tuesday. “This is not surprising to me because there is none! I declined the invitation (by the Senate and House Intelligence panels) to participate as the request was poorly phrased, overly broad and not capable of being answered.”

Meanwhile, former FBI director James Comey has been talking with Mueller about his intention to testify publicly — possibly as early as next week— before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his communications with the president. Trump abruptly fired Comey earlier this month as Comey was leading the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

Comey reportedly has notes of a Feb. 14 encounter with Trump in which he says the president urged him to back off the FBI investigation of Flynn.

This is about to become very interesting from a jurisprudence point of view and the chips put down by the Democrats are about to become much more expensive, especially if they intend on inventing more evidence with which to accuse Trump and his administration officials.

Source: USA Today