Posted on 01/31/2021 7:55:16 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Sen. Chuck Grassley on Friday called on the Justice Department to explain its decision to close an investigation into leaks of information about former national security adviser Michael Flynn with a finding of no wrongdoing on the part of Obama administration officials.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that federal prosecutors quietly closed a criminal probe into the leak of information to The Washington Post in 2017 regarding Flynn’s phone calls in December 2016 with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
According to The Times, prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C. who were investigating the leak found “no wrongdoing” on the part of Obama administration officials.
The investigation focused on leaks to Post columnist David Ignatius, who reported on Jan. 12, 2017, that Flynn had spoken with Kislyak, possibly about U.S. sanctions against Russia.
The newspaper published another article on Feb. 8, 2017 with additional details of Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak. It was later revealed that the FBI intercepted the phone call as part of routine surveillance on Kislyak.
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He has enriched the farm lobby while destroying Iowa’s small towns. After voting for this Chameleon since the mid 80s, I am done
A deep stater who pretends he will hold the deep state accountable. Just one of the geriatric boys.
You nailed it. That’s Grassley. For that matter, almost all the politicians in Iowa are wholly owned by the corn lobby. As Rush said once, politicians don’t care about voters, they only care about big donors.
Grassley is hanging on until his son Pat can take over his senate seat. In Pat’s opening speech to the state house, he blathered about more taxpayer money for “affordable” (don’t you love it when politicians use that word?) daycare. Meanwhile, the Democrat leader’s speech was all about blasting Trump and the Republicans.
We are tired of our senators always asking the tough questions when the iron *IS NOT* hot
Grassley is a sterling example of a professional conservative and why I find the term useless.
Grassley knows, he just play smoke and mirrors stupid....
“A deep stater who pretends he will hold the deep state accountable. Just one of the geriatric boys.”
This ^
The only reason Grassley and his ilk can get away with ‘concern trolling’ is a thoroughly corrupt 4th estate.
Until we ‘cure’ the cancer in the media little ‘tumors’ like Grassley will grow without any sunshine stopping them.
Spot on!
Yup, that's Senator Grassley alright.
It’s easy Sen. Grassley the DOJ and the FBI, IRS, ATF, DHS DOJ, DOE SC, and other agencies are COMPLETLEY and TOTALLY CORRUPT
What they really meant was “We couldn’t find any Republicans doing wrong”.
Feckless. One of the nicer words I’d use to describe Grassley, Graham and many other repubs.
We are tired of our senators always asking the tough questions when the iron *IS NOT* hot
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That’s the game. Make big noise when out of power. Do nothing for the people when in power. Always feather your own nest.
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Grassley has no power now.
He wants to snipe for public consumption knowing he did nothing when he could have.
Fake and Phony Senators
My suspicion with Flynn’s calls from the very start was that they were leaked to the U.S. media from a foreign source and therefore cannot be prosecuted under U.S. law. The Washington Post knew they had this legal cover from the moment they published their first story on the matter.
People like to say that what can a Senator do but write a strongly written letter? Well that’s the GOPs speciality and their excuse for doing nothing but grandstanding. But look at a guy like Harry Truman who rose to prominence by going scorched earth on war profiteers who came before his committee. Tell that to Joe McCarthy who turned the entire nation’s attention to the problem of communists in government and major industries (until communists in government and ajor industries ruined him). A Senator can do more than write sternly written letters. But these senators never will.
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