Senate Republicans are suddenly ramping up their efforts to dig into the origins of the probe of President Trump’s 2016 campaign. Two committees are launching investigations that essentially ask whether there was an effort at the highest levels of the Obama administration or the FBI to undermine Trump.
This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee took a step toward this by issuing a list of dozens of names of Obama officials they would like to subpoena, either for documents or testimony. And Tuesday, the Senate’s homeland security committee issued a subpoena related to an investigation of Hunter Biden.
Why are they doing this now? The committees say that if there was wrongdoing by the intelligence community as Trump got his presidency started, the American public deserves to know about it. Continue reading.