“I simply don’t believe that congressional Republican leadership are serious about investigating Russia’s activities and Trump and his team’s connections to Russia. But a select committee doesn’t need the president’s approval. Other lawmakers have called for a special counsel or a special prosecutor to take over the Russia investigation. But the select committee model has vulnerabilities as well, as explained by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes on the Lawfare blog last month. The chief disadvantage is that while a select committee can operate without the consent of the president, its membership is determined by congressional leaders and could become hyper-partisan, as happened with the select committee that investigated the Benghazi attacks.

Source: National Post March 14, 2017 16:18 UTC