Bigger than Watergate

Lawmakers probing the surveillance of key officials in the Trump campaign and administration say the intelligence agencies now nominally under the president’s control are stonewalling efforts to get to the bottom of who revealed names and leaked protected information to the press.

Multiple lawmakers and investigators for the panel told Fox News the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency - all agencies in position to aid the probe – are not cooperating. “Our requests are simply not being answered,” said one House Intelligence committee source about the lack of responsiveness.

Any information that will help find the wide extent on the unmasking and surveillance is purposely not being provided,” a Senate source said.

Rice isn’t the only Obama official implicated in the Trump team surveillance scandal. Multiple sources insist she was part of a group involved at the highest levels and was not calling the shots.

Sources within the NSA said they are watching the investigation closely, with one telling Fox News, “A number of people saw a lot of very questionable stuff. [The Obama administration was] using national assets and intelligence for politics.”

Rice had better seek immunity now before something more damning pops up.

According to Fox, this goes beyond Susie Rice, she wasn't in charge of the operation,

The Constitution says nothing about congressional investigations and oversight, but the authority to conduct investigations is implied since Congress possesses “all legislative powers.” The Supreme Court determined that the framers intended for Congress to seek out information when crafting or reviewing legislation. George Mason of Virginia said at the Federal Convention that Members of Congress “are not only Legislators but they possess inquisitorial powers. They must meet frequently to inspect the Conduct of the public offices.”

Origins

The constitutional framers assumed that Congress would conduct investigations as the British House of Commons conducted them. James Wilson of Pennsylvania, a future Supreme Court Justice and Convention delegate, wrote in a 1774 essay that members of the Commons were considered “grand inquisitors of the realm. The proudest ministers of the proudest monarchs have trembled at their censures; and have appeared at the bar of the house, to give an account of their conduct, and ask pardon for their faults.” When the U.S. House convened in 1789, it established an early set of select committees, such as Rules and Ways and Means, to structure the legislative process including investigations.

Heh, there ya go again. I don't care if you want to read it, or not.

Well, we will just wait and see if you angle goes anywhere.

Investigations are done by investigative bodies like the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, various other lettered organizations. But, not by the White House. They don't investigate stuff.....
....The National Security Adviser, while having the power to unmask American Citizens, has no business investigating anything. Not the job of that position. So, yeah, she should get an immunity deal soon before more stuff pops up.

By the way, what the hell was the Russian ambassador, Kisylak, doing at the Republican National Convention? Passing out down payments for future services rendered to Russia?

Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, has now come up in several communications with President Trump’s associates, officials say, as administration officials look into contact between his team and Russia.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, for instance, has come under fire after it became known Thursday night that he had two contacts with Kislyak during the presidential campaign, Justice Department officials confirmed to CBS News, following an initial report by The Washington Post. Sessions didn’t disclose his two conversations with Kisylak during his Senate confirmation process and it’s unclear what they discussed in their private conversation.

“Well, I have not met with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign,” Sessions said Thursday. “And those remarks are unbelievable to me and are false. And I don’t have anything else to say about that.”

The Russian ambassador also came up in the probe involving the president’s first national security adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn, in which officials discovered that they had a series of conversations before Mr. Trump’s inauguration about U.S. sanctions against Russia last month. The revelations led to Flynn’s resignation after White House officials discovered that Flynn had misled Vice President Mike Pence about his contact with the ambassador.

By the way, what the hell was the Russian ambassador, Kisylak, doing at the Republican National Convention? Passing out down payments for future services rendered to Russia?

The APNSA is supported by the National Security Council staff that produces research and briefings for the APNSA to review and present, either to the National Security Council or directly to the President.

I mean, at least you could have given the link to someone who is even interested in looking at your fairy tale.

Heh. She was given the link. Like you, she's not the least bit interested in looking at it.

Leave it to a ideological cheese-eater to call Federal law enacted to protect civil rights a "fairy tale" when their party violates civil rights, eh?

So tell me-what the hell was the Russian ambassador doing at the Republican Convention?

Probably getting to know who the new administration will be.

What were Hillary's people doing talking to him? They didn't even win yet they had several meetings with him. What do you suppose that was about?

The Kremlin’s spokesman sought to dismiss controversy over links between Russia and Donald Trump’s administration by claiming Hillary Clinton’s team had also “probably” met with the Russian ambassador during the election campaign.

Dmitry Peskov declined to name any individuals in an interview with CNN in which he said America was “self-humiliating” in insisting that Russia had intervened to help Donald Trump get elected.