WASHINGTON — More than a year after Republican leaders promised to investigate Russian interference in the presidential election, two influential Republicans on Friday made the first known congressional criminal referral in connection with the meddling — against one of the people who sought to expose it.Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a senior committee member, told the Justice Department that they had reason to believe that a former British spy, Christopher Steele, lied to federal authorities about his contacts with reporters regarding information in a dossier, and they urged the department to investigate.
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Christopher Steele is a highly regarded, former British Intelligence agent with a stellar career working for Britain's vaunted Secret Intelligence Service MI6. He has extensive experience in dealing with the Russians whom Britain, our ally remember, still considers a state enemy.
Steele played a vital role early in the Afghanistan conflict working with MI6 and allied Special Forces to target high level Taliban targets for capture and elimination. He subsequently rose in rank within MI6 to become a highly valued senior intelligence officer, and eventually became head of MI6's Russia intelligence desk.
To put this not so gaddamn, motherfucking bluntly --- Christopher Steele is a fucking hero and a patriot to not just his home nation of Britain, but to Britain's allies (yeah - that includes America you stupid right wing fuckers) and to democracy itself.
And now the Republicans want to persecute him. Why? The Gadfly could provide you dear readers with a truckload of cynical, manufactured motives that right wing conservatives are already floating to the top of the turd bowls masquerading as their mouths as the justification for this sudden interest in seeking criminal referrals against Christopher Steele. However, The Gadfly has no interest at this moment in wallowing in that pile of maggot-infested horse feces.
So why then? Well -- all that The Gadfly has to say to you dear readers is that with this suspicious turn of events, the very first inquisitive thought that popped in to The Gadfly's mind was -- how deep? How deep as in -- how deep does the treason with the Russians really go? And specifically now - with Grassley's and Graham's actions - how deep within the Republican party and in Trump/Republican supporting, oligarch America does this Russian ratfucking appeasement shit go?
It all jibes as well with the increased intensity in the past few weeks of coordinated (Trump/GOP) public attacks on the integrity of the FBI, the DOJ and by proxy the rest of the American intelligence and federal law-enforcement community.
Ask yourselves this dear readers.
Can any one of you show The Gadfly a single video tape, of any one of the top GOP leaders, stating for the record, that Russia, as a state, is indeed an enemy of the United States, and that Vladimir Putin is a murderous, authoritarian tyrant who would love nothing more than to see the destruction of American democracy and see it's alliances with European democracies damaged or destroyed, to the benefit of his empire, and -- that any American working in conjunction with Putin's Russia to sabotage and even alter the outcome of an American presidential election should most certainly be charged with the highest form of treason??
Just one video tape of just one high ranking Republican stating that stark, unambiguous truth and reality?? Not one?? . . .
The Gadfly rests his case.
There is ample evidence, at this juncture, that all of this Russia election meddling shit, enabled by a nation of frighteningly dumb-ass citizens turning a blind eye to it, isn't going to turn out well for this country. And people had better be prepared for when it doesn't.
----TFG
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