[boop]

Republicans to Susan Rice: We'd like to ask you a few questions about illegal unmasking.

Rice: "I don't feel like it"

Republicans: That's OK.

Republicans to Fusion GPS: We'd like some information on this phony dossier, designed to undermine our democracy.

Fusion CEO: "I plead the fifth"

Republicans: Well our investigation here is over. Now lets get back to grilling Kushner and Don Jr. endlessly for no discernable reason.

Oh, and get one of our republican staffers to give their daily leak to CNN.

[Travis McGee]

So many of the players hold threats of blackmail or guilty-knowledge “mutual assured destruction” (past sins committed, overlooked or covered up) that it’s very hard to get any of them to break the “omerta” code of silence.