GOP-led Senate Committee Makes Criminal Referrals for Don Jr., Kushner and Manafort

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Friday, Aug. 28, 2020 Friday, Aug. 28, 2020 at 9:23:03am PDT

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 04: A list of high crimes and misdemeanors are listed on a monitor as constitutional scholars Noah Feldman of Harvard University, Pamela Karlan of Stanford University, Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina, and Jonathan Turley of George Washington University testify before the House Judiciary Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill December 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. This is the first hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee in the impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Donald Trump, whom House Democrats say held back military aid for Ukraine while demanding it investigate his political rivals. The Judiciary Committee will decide whether to draft official articles of impeachment against President Trump to be voted on by the full House of Representatives. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

In one sense this is “old” news. The Intelligence Committee Report was released more than a week ago. But despite being an obsessive political news junkie, I didn’t learn about this part of it until last Sunday, when my reaction was “Holy Crap. How did I not know about this?”

Sure, I knew about the Report’s validation of many of the Mueller Report’s findings, confirmation Kilimnik was a Russian agent and other revelations. But the criminal referrals were not in the headlines of the two “newspapers of record,” the New York Times and the Washington Post. The Post at least included that information in its articles, The Times did not mention it in its coverage. From the linked Post story:

The Intelligence Committee’s report notes that it had made referrals to the Justice Department “for potential criminal activity” suspected during the course of its investigation. As The Washington Post reported late last week, Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort were among those flagged to federal prosecutors because the committee believed that their testimony was contradicted by information unearthed by Mueller.

It is unclear whether the Justice Department took action on the referrals.

[Ed. note — last line — irony intended or not?

Four years ago, Hillary Clinton not being the subject of a criminal investigation created at least a week’s worth of headlines and speculation. And here we have a Republican-led Committee voting for these cirminal referrals.

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