Stephen Cohen on McCarthyite hearings in Congress

Eve of the Trump & Russia hearings in Congress

Stephen F. Cohen, @nyu @princeton University EastWestAccord.com

"...More than three months after the committee announced that it had agreed on the scope of the investigation, the panel has not begun substantially investigating possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, three individuals with ties to the committee told The Daily Beast.

The investigation does not have a single staffer dedicated to it full-time, and those staff members working on it part-time do not have significant investigative experience. The probe currently appears to be moving at a pace slower than prior Senate Intelligence Committee investigations, such as the CIA torture inquiry, which took years to accomplish.

No interviews have been conducted with key individuals suspected of being in the Trump-Russia orbit: not Michael Flynn, not Roger Stone, not Carter Page, not Paul Manafort, and not Jared Kushner, according to two sources familiar with the committee’s procedures...."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/04/25/the-gops-russia-investigation-is-a-joke-and-americans-know-it/?utm_term=.7d16defeebf1