Bingo! As mentioned in another thread, the Senate enquiry looks...

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    Bingo!

    As mentioned in another thread, the Senate enquiry looks like it will be where things get really tough for the Trump administration. Despite being a Republican, chairman Burr understands that his job is NOT to act as fullback for the Trump defensive team, unlike Nunes in the House.


    "Burr acknowledged voting for President Donald Trump but said his job as Intelligence chairman “overrides any personal beliefs that I have or loyalties that I might have.”

    In the lower chamber, Nunes continued sparring with his fellow committee members. “It appears like the Democrats aren’t really serious about this investigation,” he said, seeking to deflect blame for presiding over a probe that has ground to a halt over his own actions.

    His panel’s top Democrat and fellow Californian, Rep. Adam Schiff, shot back with a news release debunking Nunes’ claim that Democrats had not submitted a list of potential witnesses and accusing him of not responding to their request to reschedule a canceled hearing featuring former acting attorney general Sally Yates.

    The standoff began last week when Nunes held a secret meeting on the White House grounds with an unnamed source who provided what Nunes claims is evidence that Trump transition aides might have been improperly monitored.
    Other members of Nunes’ committee have not been given access to this information, leading Democrats to accuse Nunes, who served on the Trump transition’s executive committee, of running a one-man show designed not to uncover the truth but to cover for the president.


    Schiff and other top Democrats have called on Nunes to recuse himself from the investigation, something he refuses to do.
    House Republicans have largely rallied behind Nunes, though some GOP criticism is trickling in. GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina dubbed Nunes’ probe as “sort of an Inspector Clouseau investigation.”


    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/senate-russia-probe-nunes-236661
 
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