A subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee is also investigating the matter and has pledged “to ensure<br />that the F. B.I.’s work is free of all political influence.”<br />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<br />that potentially implicate current and former administration officials and former campaign officials.<br />Yes, Trump Is Being Held Accountable -<br />By JACK GOLDSMITHMARCH 15, 2017<br />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<br />and the possibly related Russian entanglements with the Trump administration and campaign.<br />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<br />and Congress’s suspicions about Mr. Trump’s guilt and increase pressure on the F. B.I.
