via The Hill by JULIA MANCHESTER
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff(D-Calif.), ripped into Republicans on the committee on Monday after they announced they were ending the probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia's election meddling.
"While the Majority members of our committee have indicated for some time that they have been under great pressure to end the investigation, it is nonetheless another tragic milestone for this Congress, and represents yet another capitulation to the executive branch," Schiff said in a statement.
"By ending its oversight role in the only authorized investigation in the House, the Majority has placed the interests of protecting the President over protecting the country, and history will judge its actions harshly," he continued.
"If the Russians do have leverage over the President of the United States, the Majority has simply decided it would rather not know," he said.
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