A subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee is also investigating the matter and has pledged “to ensure
that the F. B.I.’s work is free of all political influence.”
While there is no doubt that partisan politics will inform what many in both congressional parties do in this matter, one should not overlook what is truly remarkable here: In the second month of a new presidency, several bodies in a Congress controlled by the president’s party are conducting high-profile, politically fraught and hard-to-control investigations
that potentially implicate current and former administration officials and former campaign officials.
Yes, Trump Is Being Held Accountable -
By JACK GOLDSMITHMARCH 15, 2017
Many critics of President Trump, including a sizable number of Democrats in the Republican-controlled Congress, are wary about the incipient congressional investigations of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election
and the possibly related Russian entanglements with the Trump administration and campaign.
Rather, just as President Richard Nixon hastened his impeachment with the Watergate-related firings known as the “Saturday Night Massacre,” canning Mr. Comey would only heighten the public’s
and Congress’s suspicions about Mr. Trump’s guilt and increase pressure on the F. B.I.
