USA: investigation of Russian intervention

In the United States, Congress continues to investigate the alleged intervention of Russia in the American presidential election in 2016. On Wednesday, the leaders of the relevant committee in the Senate made the first report on this topic. The essence of this speech, according to most authors, came to the conclusion that the Senate Committee is ready for the sake of investigation to overcome inter -party disagreements. By this, he can make a striking contrast with the committee in the House of Representatives, where quarrels prevented the investigation.

The investigation of the House of Representatives on the alleged Russian intervention in the American elections has practically failed, writes Politico . The Senate is happy to be in a hurry to fill the formed vacuum. The specifics of the investigation by representatives was that their work was systematically interfered with inter -party enmity, as a result of which they poorly agreed among themselves. In contrast, the party leaders of the Committee in the Senate (Republican Richard Barr and Democrat Mark Warner) decided to demonstrate cohesion in the name of the common cause.

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“Two senators,” writes Politico, “arranged a cheerful bicamera performance at their first joint press conference, where they made each other and promised to neglect their political disagreements in order to finally understand the case that Barr called one of the most important investigations for his 22 -year service in Congress.”

In another material, Politico describes the provision of cases of investigation in the House of Representatives. On Wednesday, the Chairman of the Investigation Committee, Republican Davin Newness, tried to shift responsibility for the failure of the investigation of the Democrats. The main failure is that Russian intervention is positioned as “obvious”, but there is no convincing evidence of this. The Democrats, in turn, accused Newness of a conspiracy with the White House and deliberately confused the investigation.

The Atlantic notes that the senators promised a long, slow and boring investigation of the case. In this rhetoric, the author finds hidden criticism of representatives, whose investigation turned out to be chaotic. At the beginning of the material, the author will paraphrase Leo Tolstoy: "Each dysfunctional committee is dysfunctional in its own way, while all functional committees are depressingly laconic." The functional committee in this case is in the Senate, where, at least at the public level, representatives of competing parties were able to portray the composure and ability to cooperate.

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A characteristic feature of the investigation in the House of Representatives, the author stipulates, there were regular sensational statements, to which no evidence was attached (sometimes this was motivated by the secrecy of the sources). Against such a background, the promise of a boring investigation without high -profile statements and far -reaching conclusions looks solid and encouraging. Otherwise, during the press conference, almost nothing was said. The speakers hinted that the committee works with an “unprecedented” number of documents. Rumors were also mentioned that during the American election race on the American Internet there were more than a thousand “paid trolls”, which influenced public opinion in Russian interests.