{"id":3716,"date":"2017-10-19T12:51:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2017-10-19T12:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:51:25","slug":"the-russia-investigation-why-the-overseers-need-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-russia-investigation-why-the-overseers-need-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russia Investigation: Why the Overseers Need Oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Russia-investigation-10-19-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3717\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-russia-investigation-why-the-overseers-need-oversight\/russia-investigation-10-19-2017\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Russia-investigation-10-19-2017.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1140,500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Russia investigation 10-19-2017\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Russia-investigation-10-19-2017-300x132.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Russia-investigation-10-19-2017-1024x449.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3717\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Russia-investigation-10-19-2017-1024x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Russia-investigation-10-19-2017-1024x449.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Russia-investigation-10-19-2017-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Russia-investigation-10-19-2017-768x337.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Russia-investigation-10-19-2017.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>What\u2019s going on with the Russia investigation? For most of us, the answer likely is, \u201cBeats me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It seems every week or two there\u2019s a media report about Congress holding a hearing or some member of Team Trump or other person being called in to testify: James Comey, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. The facts come out in drips: one reads of meetings with Russians during this past year\u2019s presidential election; Facebook turning over information about shady campaign ads; Michael Flynn and possibly his son being subpoenaed to produce documents.<\/p>\n<p>There are five congressional committees involved, to say nothing of independent counsel Robert Mueller. Who is doing what, when and why is anything but obvious&#8230;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/2017\/10\/19\/the-russia-investigation-why-the-overseers-need-oversight\/\">Read more at the R Street Institute Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s going on with the Russia investigation? For most of us, the answer likely is, \u201cBeats me.\u201d It seems every week or two there\u2019s a media report about Congress holding a hearing or some member of Team Trump or other person being called in to testify: James Comey, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr. The facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-r-street-institute-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-XW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}