Alright fellow Kossacks and Resisters, the news have started to come out yesterday that Senate’s investigation of Trump’s Russian ties had stalled. The big reason for the investigation not going anywhere? Senator Richard Burr. If you remember this guy was on Trump’s transition team so that alone would have been enough of a conflict of interest to recuse himself. But he acted as he was going to do his job and choose country over party. Sen. Burr and Sen. Warner were supposed to be the grown ups compared to the House investigation. Well, reports indicate otherwise. The committee only has 6 staffers working on Trump Russia collusion but they’re not working on this full time, have no investigative or prosecutorial experience and have their own busy full time jobs already.
The investigation does not have a single staffer dedicated to it full-time, and those staff members working on it part-time do not have significant investigative experience. The probe currently appears to be moving at a pace slower than prior Senate Intelligence Committee investigations, such as the CIA torture inquiry, which took years to accomplish.
No interviews have been conducted with key individuals suspected of being in the Trump-Russia orbit: not Michael Flynn, not Roger Stone, not Carter Page, not Paul Manafort, and not Jared Kushner, according to two sources familiar with the committee’s procedures.
Remember when Sen. Warner told the public that this is the biggest investigation in his life time? Yeah, if you rely on the reports, it doesn’t look like the committee is treating it as such.
“The wheels seem to be turning more slowly than the importance of the inquiry would indicate,” said Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of the 9/11 commission and former Watergate prosecutor, one of a number of veteran Washington investigators who have begun to question the lack of movement in the probe
Isikoff reports that the main bottleneck is Senator Richard Burr who is not signing off on the Democrats request to ask for Trump related documents.
The committee has yet to issue a single subpoena for documents or interview any key witnesses who are central to the probe, the sources said. It also hasn’t requested potentially crucial evidence — such as the emails, memos and phone records of the Trump campaign — in part because the panel’s chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., has so far failed to respond to requests from the panel’s Democrats to sign letters doing so, the sources said.
This is outrageous and we must demand that Senator Burr recuse himself from the most important investigation in our countries history. Join us and call the senator’s office today and demand that he recuse himself.
CALL: 202-224-3154