
Chuck Grassley (age 89, BTW) just said the quiet part out loud.
"We're not interested in whether the allegations against Biden are accurate or not." You can listen to a clip of his interview on Fox News embedded in the article linked below. https://newrepublic.com/post/173162/grassley-admits-republicans-dont-care-accusations-joe-biden-accurate |
What he was saying is that it is NOT the role of Congress to determine guilt or innocence. That is the job of the Justice Dept. and the courts. The job of the oversight committee is to ensure the FBI is doing THEIR job. He stated as much in the full interview here. Unlike members of Congress like Adam Schiff, Grassley is not making a judgment on guilt or innocence based on an accusation. I can understand why you might not understand that, given that too many liberals don't seem to believe in due process. |
I hear that NYT and WaPo are preparing a deep investigative series to get to the bottom of this. |
Huh? He was an impeachment manager making a case that the majority of the senate bought. Just not enough to remove Trump from office because...well who knows why they thought Trump remaining in office instead of Pence was a good idea. |
That’s bullshit though. If Republicans are going to call the accuser a “whistleblower”, they need to stay out of the whistleblower process, which is a sealed investigation of the evidence submitted by the whistleblower. If the agency finds evidence is lacking then the whistleblower could take the evidence to court or Congress or OIG or the media or Wikileaks or Twitter or any other way to publicize it. It isn’t public because Republicans know exactly what the “whistleblower” has and they know it is nothing, so they are alleging a cover up because they all they want is a political smear in the media. |
Congress has OVERSIGHT of the FBI. This is the OVERSIGHT committee. And, the whistleblower has gone through the proper channels to claim whistleblower status. |
Time will tell if there's anything to the allegations. That won't stop the Rethuglicans from spreading rumors and innuendo in the meanwhile. |
Comer knows what the allegation is. He’s seems the document. He could just investigate if he wanted to. But likely he knows the allegation is BS so he’s trying to create a bunch of smoke. The usual RWNJs will lap it up. |