Politico: Ron Johnson says committee Republicans blocking Comey, Brennan subpoenas

See Ron Johnson says committee Republicans blocking Comey, Brennan subpoenas:

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chair Ron Johnson suggested Wednesday that fellow Republicans on his committee were blocking him from subpoenaing former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan and other figures involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and its contacts with Russia — even though the panel gave him the unilateral power to do so in the spring. 

"We had a number of my committee members that were highly concerned about how this looks politically," the Wisconsin GOP senator told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, who pressed Johnson to identify Republicans standing in the way of a wave of high-profile subpoenas.

But Johnson did not mention that Comey, Brennan and other senior Obama administration intelligence community leaders were included in a list of officials that Johnson was given blanket authority to subpoena in June. Asked about the discrepancy, committee officials acknowledged that no committee Republicans are blocking Johnson from issuing subpoenas, attributing the exchange with Hewitt to a misunderstanding. Johnson, a spokesman said, "is committed to running a thorough investigation." 

it sounds to me like Ron Johnson is being blackmailed and this is a call for some help. Of course I am only guessing, but that is all anyone can do in such circumstances. My advice to him is to take the hit and just do the right thing, without seeking guarantees in advance, because in truth, no-one can guarantee anything right now. We have to just have faith that good will prevail, even if it doesn't happen in our own lifetimes, or even those of our children. 

What is important in cases where someone is being blackmailed is to prosecute the blackmailer before you prosecute the individual who is the victim of the blackmail, otherwise you incapacitate the victim, which is all the blackmailer himself probably wanted to do, and so you leave blackmail as an effective means to pervert the course of Justice. Blackmail is almost always a far worse crime than the thing being used by the blackmailer. Blackmail would not be nearly so effective a technique for subversion if it were always possible for the blackmail victim to "press the button".

Having mulled this over for a while, I think a much more plausible explanation for this behaviour is that he put the whole show on simply to give me the opportunity to show off. If that's so, then the people who made this seem necessary should be ashamed of themselves, and then charged with wasting a lot of time of a lot of people much, much better than they are! See Russiagate/Obamagate.

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