DOJ Initial Russia Hearings

If he were to be impeached and face a trial in the Senate.  Would that open up the floodgates for everything he knows?  

Seems like a can of worms I wouldn't want to open.

 
The investigation is to find wrongdoing, and bring the wrongdoers to justice. Why give the possible wrongdoers information you may have about their wrongdoing, before the investigation is complete,  so they can, deny, denounce and spin that information as fake news? Is that really how its supposed to work? Makes no sense to me. 

 
Let's be clear: If they actually found a way to impeach Rosenstein, it would be utter political suicide for Republicans. They're already swimming upstream in the midterms with an unpopular president; if they obstructed the investigation into him this way they'd bleed all the uneasy moderate voters they have left to bleed.  

I'm pretty sure this is more meaningless grandstanding from the conservative wing of the party, like all the times they voted to repeal the ACA when they knew Obama would veto it or shut down the government when they knew the votes weren't there. 

There's no way the reasonable members of the GOP let this go anywhere.

 
I'm sure this angered Trump but Sessions defends Rosenstein.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sessions-defends-deputy-rosenstein-impeachment-move-143717897.html

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday defended his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, and took a swipe at fellow Republicans in Congress who moved to impeach Rosenstein, who oversees the federal probe of Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election.

"My deputy, Rod Rosenstein, is highly capable. I have the highest confidence in him," Sessions said during an appearance in Boston.

"What I would like Congress to do is to focus on some of the legal challenges that are out there," including illegal immigration, the attorney general added.
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And other mainstream Repubs are voicing their support of Rosenstein

https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/2018/07/26/rosenstein-still-standing-despite-conservative-push-to-impeach#gs._3JFQOw






A summer legislative recess and the election-year calendar is likely to protect Rosenstein from facing the impeachment sought by those Republicans.





“I just don’t see that happening,” GOP Representative Dennis Ross of Florida said. He and other House and Senate Republicans say they see no enthusiasm for taking definitive action against the No. 2 official at the Justice Department -- either now or nearer to the November election.





Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina also dismissed the possibility, saying it’s “more likely" he’d end up "in the NBA playing basketball” than Rosenstein is to to be impeached.
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Ooof. This is a huge deal. If true, this kind of blows apart Trump's argument about no collusion, doesn't it? 

We've got to take what Cohen says with a grain of salt, but boy... not only did he apparently sign off on it, he's been lying about it ever since. 



 
Clifford Franklin said:
Ooof. This is a huge deal. If true, this kind of blows apart Trump's argument about no collusion, doesn't it? 

We've got to take what Cohen says with a grain of salt, but boy... not only did he apparently sign off on it, he's been lying about it ever since. 
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you would think it was bad...but it was only 10 days ago donnie was making out with putin and there have been dozens of other things thrown in the fan since then....my guess is that there will be a tweet tomorrow either throwing cohen under the bus, or somehow claiming this somehow proves that there was no collusion.  then the next week with be more smokescreens thrown out to hide these things.

 
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Clifford Franklin said:
Ooof. This is a huge deal. If true, this kind of blows apart Trump's argument about no collusion, doesn't it? 

We've got to take what Cohen says with a grain of salt, but boy... not only did he apparently sign off on it, he's been lying about it ever since. 
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The problem is Cohen has no proof of it. It's always been obvious to anyone with half a brain that Trump would've known about it, but that never seemed to matter.

 
Moiraine said:
The problem is Cohen has no proof of it. It's always been obvious to anyone with half a brain that Trump would've known about it, but that never seemed to matter.
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It was obvious that Trump would've known about it, but the other underlings present were going to lie for him. If Cohen were to testify to this, that breaks ranks and is a big deal. He doesn't need a video/audio, he can testify to his personal observations. Then it comes down to the credibility of the witnesses...

 
By the way, wasn't sure if this was the right place to post this...but it looks like we've got our first documented attempts by the Russians to hack the offices of vulnerable Democrats in 2018:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/26/17619818/russia-claire-mccaskill-2018-midterm-hack

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-hackers-new-target-a-vulnerable-democratic-senator

From the Vox article:

Fancy Bear, a subgroup of Russia’s GRU intelligence service, is the same group that went after Clinton campaign staffers in 2016. The strategy was to put a link in an email saying a password had expired, and then redirect the reader to a website where they would click another link that would grant the hackers access to the email accounts.

To get people to click the second link, the hackers plastered their fake website with Microsoft logos — so it looked like a site you’d legitimately visit to change your Outlook password. Microsoft didn’t like this and actually sued the Russian hackers in US court, demanding the power to be able to shut down any websites hosted on servers identified as belonging to Fancy Bear that used Microsoft logos in them. In August 2017, the company won the case, and it’s been shutting down Fancy Bear sites ever since.
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So at least Microsoft is fighting the Russian hackers. That's good. But the reason they're targeting folks like McCaskill is because she's within the margin of error on polling ahead of her opponent:

This is an extremely big deal. Microsoft had already announced that Russian hackers had gone after “three candidates” in the 2018 election, but hadn’t revealed who they were. Identifying McCaskill specifically as a target is incredibly revealing: She’s only up on her Republican opponent by one point in the RealClearPolitics average. If Democrats lose her seat, they face a very tough road to win back the Senate in November. Helping Republicans defeat McCaskill (or another Democratic senator in a Trump-voting state) would be perhaps the single biggest boost that Russia could give to the GOP — and, by extension, to President Trump.
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Anyway, so the Russians are at it again. I'm sure our Federal Cybersecurity group is watching out for Americans...

https://www.wired.com/story/rob-joyce-tom-bossert-white-house-cybersecurity-policy/

TODAY, THE WHITE House confirmed that cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce will head back to the National Security Agency, where he previously ran the nation’s top hacking team. His departure comes just a week after Tom Bossert, Trump’s cybersecurity czar and Joyce’s boss, was forced out—and leaves the administration without two trusted voices on one of the most important challenges the US faces going forward.
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Oh FFS... 

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