They don't HAVE to investigate anything. Nobody can make them. Anyone who is assuming the outcome of this is a foregone conclusion is jumping the gun, imo. Why not just ignore it, the way they've ignored all Schlump's other b.s?
I suggest reading the whole article to anyone who hasn't done so already. Like this part:
Late Friday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Jack Reed (Rhode Island), the committee’s top Democrat, issued a statement saying that the committee “is aware of recent news reports — and the Department of Defense’s initial response — regarding alleged follow-on strikes on suspected narcotics vessels.” The committee, they said, “has directed inquiries to the Department, and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances.”
The leaders of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mike D. Rogers (R-Alabama) and Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington), followed suit late Saturday. In a brief joint statement, the pair said they are “taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question.” The committee, they noted, is “committed to providing rigorous oversight of the Department of Defense’s military operations in the Caribbean.”
Please note: the above statements are coming from both the GOP chair AND the Democratic ranking member of these committees. These sounds like
bipartisan efforts to me. I know a lot of people here are prone to automatically expect the very worst from Republicans, always, and not without good reason. But why would Democrats go along with a phony investigation? Don't you think the Democrats on those committees would smell a rat of there was one to be smelled? I do.
I understand being suspicious, but just writing this off before its even gets started is a bridge too far to me. I think we should least keep am open mind and see what happens. If nothing else, I suspect that some of these Republican senators and reps have been hearing from concerned constituents about this crap (not to mention a million other things Schlump has done that no one is happy about).The reps will all be up for reelection next year, and a third of the senators will be as well. I think it's just barely possible that some of them are figuring out that continuing to silently support all of the Orange Hellbeast's decisions may
hurt rather than help their chances for reelection.
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