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Rod J. Rosenstein (in photo being sworn in), President Donald Trump's nominee for deputy attorney general, testified at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Tuesda... Rod J. Rosenstein (in photo being sworn in), President Donald Trump's nominee for deputy attorney general, testified at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Tuesday March 7, 2017. Democrats on the committee pressed Rosenstein on whether he would recuse himself from any Russia investigations or appoint a special prosecutor. The committee also heard from Trump's nominee for associate attorney general, Rachel Brand. (Photo by Jeff Malet) MORE LESS

By Alice Ollstein

June 7, 2017 9:45 a.m.

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The Senate Intelligence Committee will hear Wednesday morning from four of the men at heart of the government’s response to Russian meddling in the 2016 election, possible collusion with the Trump campaign, and the administration’s alleged efforts to derail the inquiry.

Though the official purpose of the hearing with Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, NSA Director Michael Rogers, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, senators plan to question the men about a wave of shocking recent reports, including Tuesday night’s allegation that President Trump asked Coats to intervene with the FBI to get it to back off its investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

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Alice Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) was a reporter at Talking Points Memo, covering national politics. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2010 and has been reporting in DC ever since, covering the Supreme Court, Congress and national elections for TV, radio, print, and online outlets. Her work has aired on Free Speech Radio News, All Things Considered, Channel News Asia, and Telesur, and her writing has been published by The Atlantic, La Opinión, and The Hill Rag. She was elected in 2016 as an at-large board member of the DC Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Alice grew up in Santa Monica, California and began working for local newspapers in her early teens.

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barkdog says:

June 7, 2017

Today is an appetizer before tomorrow’s main course. Enjoy!
sickneffintired says:

June 7, 2017

I’m ready
spencersmom says:

June 7, 2017

me, too

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Vive la France!
bonvivant says:

June 7, 2017

I’d like to hear more from Clapper. Clapper yesterday at Australia’s National Press Club:

“I lived through Watergate,” Clapper said of the multiple scandals engulfing the Trump administration. “It was a scary time, I have to say though that I think, you know, compare the two, that Watergate pales in my view compared to what we’re confronting now.”

Then later:

Clapper was deeply troubled when Trump began his presidency by insulting the intelligence community as “Nazis,” after their findings had suggested his election might have been tainted.

“This was prompted, I found, I realized later, by his and his team’s extreme paranoia about and resentment of any doubt cast on the legitimacy of his election which, of course, our assessment did,” Clapper said.
barkdog says:

June 7, 2017

Yesterday on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell he discussed how once it became clear that Nixon had obstructed justice by agreeing with Haldeman’s plan to ask the CIA to tell the FBI to “back the hell off” of the Watergate investigation, Republicans had heard enough and three of them marched over to the White House and informed Nixon that he could no longer survive impeachment. How long will we have to wait after Comey’s testimony on Thursday for anyone in the Republican party to do the same?

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