McCain wants a select committee because the House committee is getting too close to the truth that Obama, in conjunction with career CIA and NSA personnel, released confidential national security information about Trump and his team in violation of the law, and McCain wants to gain more control over the probe to cover that up and protect his national security bureaucracy buddies.
I don’t think the releases are the problem, in fact, the releases were a serious mistake that, like McCord’s letter to Sirica, reveal something we were never supposed to know about.
It’s possible that the monitoring of overseas financial activity in Russia started legit. Maybe more than possible.
But when Trump people started turning up, conducting their own legal private affairs, it was just TOO, TOO good to resist unmasking them and bundling product for POTUS and, perhaps, HRC. And as the true state of affairs in their internal polls got worse and worse, they got more greedy and more reckless.
And once the worst actually, UNBELIEVABLY happened and Trump won, they started passing product around like candy, hoping that before 1/20/17 something, anything would turn up that could derail the inauguration.
But now, Zero has fled to Taihiti, and we await a competent investigation. Who will be our Peter Rodino? Who will be our Sam Ervin?