Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) on Monday night indicated that it was time for the House Intelligence Committee to conclude its Russia investigation because the panel has merely become a forum for partisan bickering.
“We’ve gone completely off the rails,” Rooney told CNN’s Erin Burnett when she asked why the committee had concluded its investigation.
“Now we’re just basically a political forum for people to leak information to drive the day’s news,” Rooney added. “We’ve lost all credibility, and we’re going to issue probably two different reports, unfortunately.”
The committee, which has been roiled by partisan rhetoric, announced Monday evening that it had concluded its Russia investigation. In a one page summary of its findings, the committee said that it found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and that the committee disagrees with the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia favored President Donald Trump.
On the issue of preference for Trump, Rooney took a slightly more nuanced view. He told CNN that there’s evidence that Russian hackers favored Trump in some way but that he had doubts that Putin was working to elect Trump.
“I don’t know that necessarily there was a full-fledged campaign to do everything that they could to help elect Donald Trump. I think that their goal was chaos,” he said.
Watch a clip from the interview via CNN:
“We’ve gone completely off the rails, and now we’re just basically a political forum for people to leak information to drive the day’s news…we’ve lost all credibility” – Rep. Tom Rooney on the Republican decision to end the House Russia investigation https://t.co/smu8O6gYSJ pic.twitter.com/wzgCf2oiKZ
— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) March 12, 2018
In the other thread on this topic i wondered how this POS suddenly got a spine and then I saw that he is not running for re-election.
facepalm
> " the committee said that it found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia"
None so blind as those who refuse to see.
Here’s a news flash twit.
Both sides didn’t do it
One side did it
One side was partisan
One side had White House tool Nunes who lied about his trips to the White House and dodged the truth
One side did not
Well, isn’t this “nuanced.” Doesn’t have the honor or integrity needed to call BS on the whitewash but can’t quite go full-monty on the no-collusion no-collusion mantra either. If that’s what it takes to look in the mirror and sleep at night then good for you, but you’re a mealy-mouthed traitor-coward like the rest of them if you see what’s happening and can’t be a patriot about it. Gutless invertebrate. This saga in our history just keeps challenging your capacity for contempt. Step aside, pal, because real Americans are going to deal with this, not cowards. Go home, you whining beta dog. Nobody has any use for you.
“the committee said that it found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and that the committee disagrees with the intelligence community’s assessment”
Hmm. Who to believe. On one hand we have intelligence professionals. On the other: Pissant congresspersons who are terrified of trumpy’s pitchfork mobs and who are likely to personally believe the world is 6000 years old and that state mandated ultrasounds are morally consistent with “small government” principles.
I cannot wait for these hypocrite rats to run away from trump and to hear them denying clinging to him for years after his guilt and just-plain-personal awfulness was apparent. They’ll be issuing themselves mulligans at a record pace.