Whether certain individuals met with Russian officials, and whether those meetings were significant, is secondary and can eventually be sorted out. The most important question concerns Russia’s ability to manipulate U.S. elections. When Republicans stand in the way of thorough, open and immediate investigations, they become Russia’s accomplice after the fact. But Republicans need to face the fact that by slowing down, limiting or otherwise hampering the fullest possible investigation into what happened, that is what they are doing. Republican leaders need to name a bipartisan select committee or create an outside panel, and they need to do so immediately.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2017 19:26 UTC