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riversedge

(70,465 posts)
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 02:51 PM Jan 2019

Senators introduce bill to require special counsel report be made public

Source: the hill


By Jordain Carney - 01/28/19 01:48 PM EST


Senators introduce bill to require special counsel report be made public
A bipartisan pair of senators want to require that a report from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, as well as from other Justice Department special counsels, is released publicly once the investigation ends.

Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), both members of the Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation on Monday that would require a DOJ special counsel to hand over a report to Congress once either the probe ends or in the event a special counsel is fired or resigns.

“A Special Counsel is appointed only in very rare serious circumstances involving grave violations of public trust. The public has a right and need to know the facts of such betrayals of public trust," Blumenthal said in a statement.

Grassley added that requiring a public report would provide "oversight of and insight into activities" of a special counsel probe............................

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/427278-senators-introduce-bill-to-require-special-counsel-report-be-made-public

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Senators introduce bill to require special counsel report be made public (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2019 OP
I agree. Also, Marco Rubio is a terrible idea. (n/t) Iggo Jan 2019 #1
Sorry, my fault but I got my times mixed up. The Rubio story is now posted in GD... riversedge Jan 2019 #2
I see cracks forming in the GOP wall... Hekate Jan 2019 #3
Will they need 60 votes Mr.Bill Jan 2019 #4
It also shows us duforsure Jan 2019 #5
Ken Starr released his report in a book format which they sold as copies to the public on the day politicaljunkie41910 Jan 2019 #6
I predict it will fail by 1 vote... awwww... so close... PeeJ52 Jan 2019 #7
If it does make it will it be heavily redacted for public viewing? BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #8
Gawdalmighty how many fingers and toes do I have left to cross? akraven Jan 2019 #9
Taxpayers have a right to know Scarsdale Jan 2019 #10
Absopositively. akraven Jan 2019 #11
Will have to get past the turtle first. Snellius Jan 2019 #12
Great news! Grassley sponsored it, too! Bipartisan! There is hope. nt Honeycombe8 Jan 2019 #13
Kick orangecrush Jan 2019 #14
You know McTurtle ut oh Jan 2019 #15

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
5. It also shows us
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 03:05 PM
Jan 2019

How he falsely claims the border is a National Emergency , but all the studies and facts show it isn't. What's even more of a National Emergency is he's saying nothing about the Putin cyber threat that's still going on leaving our infrastructure sectors all at extreme risk, and also from an EMP attack from Russia or China, and he says nothing when

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
6. Ken Starr released his report in a book format which they sold as copies to the public on the day
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 03:19 PM
Jan 2019

it was first released. Starr's report included the most salacious details of who touched whom and where. I had stated in a previous post that if Starr could release and sell copies of his 'smut' report, than the general public had better get to see Mueller's report. I will always believe it was the perv Ken Starr's report that nearly drove Monica Lewinsky to commit suicide, not Bill Clinton's. I also stated previously that if I were Monica's Mother, Ken Starr would have had to send me to jail before I would have told the perv anything about my daughter's activities. Ken Starr interviewed Monica's mother and threatened to send her to jail unless she told him all the details that her daughter Monica had told her. As her Mother, I would have sat in jail indefinitely before I would have told the Pervert anything my daughter told me in confidence. Starr then took all those salacious details and published them in a book, and sold them to the public.

 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
7. I predict it will fail by 1 vote... awwww... so close...
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 03:35 PM
Jan 2019

and it will be a leaving Senator to cast the deciding vote... Kabuki!!!

BigmanPigman

(51,674 posts)
8. If it does make it will it be heavily redacted for public viewing?
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 03:48 PM
Jan 2019

A Dem rep said last week that he will make sure the report gets to the public and he was very confident and certain it would happen, as if this has been seriously discussed and decided already.

akraven

(1,975 posts)
9. Gawdalmighty how many fingers and toes do I have left to cross?
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 03:51 PM
Jan 2019

I guess I could start crossing my hair, too!! I'm old, it's too hard to cross my legs.....I won't walk under any ladders but don't expect me to pass up a black cat, neighbor has 3!

Oh, this is such good news!

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
10. Taxpayers have a right to know
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 04:07 PM
Jan 2019

if their money was well spent. We SHOULD know what is going on. To HELL with redactions, to protect Agent Orange. If you have done nothing wrong, what do you have to fear??

akraven

(1,975 posts)
11. Absopositively.
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 04:09 PM
Jan 2019

And Agent Orange (if it hadn't killed the best brother-in-law ever) would be my choice of epithet for Twitler.

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