The bipartisan group of Sens. Chuck Schumer, Jack Reed, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham are basically like “no, really, Mitch McConnell, we need a select committee on Russian interference in the elections, but if you want, it can be an investigation into cybersecurity threats from other governments more generally … “
"Recent reports of Russian interference in our election should alarm every American,” the four senators wrote to McConnell in the Sunday letter. “Cybersecurity is the ultimate cross-jurisdictional challenge, and we must take a comprehensive approach to meet this challenge effectively." [...]
During an appearance Sunday morning on CNN’s “State of the Union,” McCain stressed that a select committee is needed not only to determine what happened this year, but also to look at “the whole issue of cyberwarfare, where we have no strategy or no policy.”
McConnell has said that the Intelligence Committee would handle any investigations.
In New York, Schumer flatly said an Intelligence Committee investigation was “not good enough.”
“First, things could be left out. There could be holes that no committee covers,” Schumer said during his news conference. “Second, we could get contradictory information. … And third, the existing committees are very, very busy.”
We can expect McConnell to continue doing whatever is needed to look like he’s not blowing off the issue while, in reality, totally blowing off the issue—because it might raise uncomfortable questions about the Republican president he obstructed so long and hard to elect.