Writing my Congessman

Feel free to contact your member. Divide your submission into 2 parts.

Smith, Jordan and Comer have been acting in unison in using GRU Agents Smirnoff's information. I have concerns as to how they received this information in the first place and (we must ask) whether they knew where it was coming from. 

When the January 6 Select Committee was early in its investigation, I urged you to refer the matter of the December congressional members meeting with Trump directly to the Ethics Committee for their involvement in the overall conspiracy.

I urge you again to make this referral, adding Smith and Comer.

The speech and debate clause protects these members from examination of their official activities in any other place BUT CONGRESS! It is time for Congress to step up, especially given a possible GRU connection to their recent efforts as well as January 6th. Recall that the December 18, 2020 meeting was full of Russian operatives (Flynn, Giuliani, Byrne and Trump).

Any conduct involving the GRU is likely already under FBI investigation, which is why Jordan is going after the Bidens. Three explanations are possible. 1. Jordan is pre-taliating to make it look like any coming indictments headed his way look like retaliation. 2. Jordan thinks he could leverage a deal to have Biden's troubles go away if Biden calls off investigations of he and his co-conspirators or 3. He is actively pursuing a Moscow agenda.

Hopefully the Smirnoff affair will have the Speaker put Ukraine aid on the table immediately. 

I am sure it is tempting to let DOJ take the lead on GOP aid and comfort to Moscow. I urge you not to wait.

PART 2

Please allow me to restate my proposal for the Ethics Committees of each chamber to expand their purview, possibly as a joint effort, to include investigating presidential disqualification under the 14th Amendment. Please communicate this proposal to the Vice Chair of the Committee and to Leader Jeffries for action when Insurrectionists in the House start resigning or are expelled for that involvement. Ethics should also be empowered to investigate members who participated in January 6. A finding by the Committee should require that a 2/3rds majority be required to retain office (rather than to expell such members). A bipartisan committee like Ethics should be trusted not to abuse this precedent.

Finally, let me comment on the timeline of the afternoon of January 6. This was apparent to me watching events unfold on television, which was a better viewpoint than members of the Select Committee had because you were sheltering from the mob.

When Babbitt was shot and her squad arrested, the air was immediately taken out of the event. Aside from those in active melee with officers, the building started to clear as if by magic. Connie Meeks, who was a member of the Oath keepers stack - indeed the entire stack - melted away. The stack seems to have been timed to see if security had been breeched at the Speaker's lobby and on the Senate side. And then it was gone.

The moment Babbitt was shot and her squad arrested and this was televised is the moment Trump began to cooperate with Meadows in unwinding the insurrection. Given his remarks on the Ellipse on convincing "week Republicans," and finding Democrats hopeless, the opportunity to do this meant breaching the lobby and seeing what the Oath Keepers stack had in their backpacks. Trump demonstrating his knowledge of the plan by referring to it in his speech is not protected speech - it is evidence that he knew what the plan was.

Hanging or convincing Pence was the perfect smoke screen, just like election interference and the perfect phone call were misdirection from the plan to deny (not leverage) the sale of the Javelins in obedience to Putin (which is likely found in the NICE records that Trump was likely trying to hide in his office at Mar O Largo). The quid pro quo was the funding of the Defend the House PAC - and covering the tracks on how the PAC was set up explains why there was so much congressional involvement in January 6.

None of the events were about the election or Trump's ego or ambitions. They were and are about Ukraine. It is all a single narrative, not a series of unrelated events.

Again, the Ethics Committees need to take point on how members were and are involved. For the sake of the people of Ukraine, this cannot wait for the FBI to act first.