The Russia investigation and apparent White House cover up swallowed Washington whole this week as everyone from Donald Trump to House Intelligence chair Devin Nunes to Speaker Paul Ryan sought desperately and unsuccessfully to contain the sordid narrative.
The flurry of activity—which included welcome and seemingly sane appearances from the Senate Intelligence Committee—was absent one voice: former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
It became clearer by the day this week that almost all the Russian investigation news was driven by an effort to silence Yates, who was set to testify on Monday before the House Intelligence Committee. That didn’t happen after Nunes hastily shut down that public hearing and ground his committee’s investigation to a halt. Notably, the ranking Democratic member of the committee seems to think Yates has some pretty explosive information.
For the moment, we can only speculate on what that information might include, but former national security adviser Michael Flynn was indeed seeking immunity to testify with no luck as of Friday. Flynn “certainly has a story to tell,” his lawyer advertised, dangling his client’s juicy testimony before the FBI and intelligence committees. Getting immunity wouldn’t entirely insulate him from criminal prosecution, but it would make a prosecutor’s job much harder.
Although Trump backed Flynn’s come-on to the intelligence community Friday morning, the former national security adviser’s failed advance might just be the first step in an “every man for himself” stampede. As for reading into Trump’s “this is a witch hunt” tweet seeming to support Flynn testifying, we must always remember how “ignorant of his own ignorance” our unfortunate pr*sident is, bless his heart, as they might say in the South.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2nuxIyn
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