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Jefferson Morley at Alternet: “”if we don’t see massive popular protest to protect the special prosecutor, the plot against Mueller may well succeed in killing the rule of law in America.”

Rep. Nunes has been violating his alleged recusal all along, Rep. Schiff informs us, demanding final approval of subpoenas, etc.

While AG Sessions’ decision to climb back on the Hillary Distraction Bandwagon notches up another count of perjury against him.

What the GOP Committee is trying to do is shift focus away from what The Dossier said and make the pretext of its alleged innate innacuracy an excuse to punish or expulse any Justice official who handled it.

But as Seth Abramson tweets: “How about we just find out if *the dossier is true*? I’m sick and tired of US media writing stories on the Dossier without doing even a *fraction* of the work others—especially independent journalists and UK reporters—have done to confirm its key elements.

” This is garbage journalism and POLITICO should be ashamed. You don’t write process stories attempting to cast doubt on a document without having thoroughly researched the sum and substance of the document. US media has done the GOP’s dirty work on the Dossier story from Day 1.”

The House as well as Senate Republicans are trying to humble the FBI officials to whom James Comey confided the details of his distressing conversations with Trump. The careers and reputations of the witnesses Mueller could call to corroborate Comey’s testimony are being destroyed.

Democratic challengers to every GOP Congressperson who genuflected to Fearless Leader must play that footage over and over again, asking the electorate, “Is this the America you want to live in?”

Andrea Germanos at Common Dreams reports the way that the little ferret is chewing up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Now, the Fox undercover–I think she’s posing as a journalist–agent tells us, it’s the Democrats who want Trump to fire Mueller!

Don’t bother to ask why.

The House Intelligence Committee invites Bannon to Come On Down.

Lined up at the trough for their humongous tax cuts, companies like Wells Fargo and AT& T are trying to pretend that pay raises already negotiated are magically due to Trump’s not-yet enacted tax cuts.

• Katie McDonough at Splinter News describes what’s really going on.

Remember: Fascism is an alliance of state and corporate interest.

Once-occasional Trump critic Sen. Graham has become a panting lapdog pleading for treats from Supreme Leader.

Expert on authoritarianism Sarah Kendzior–she’s got more than enough to work at the moment in this country–shares with Joy Reid her suspicions that Graham, as well as Hatch, et al. are being blackmailed or threatened.