Steny Hoyer After Mueller Report: ‘Impeachment Is Not Worthwhile at this Point’

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said Thursday that the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report shows pursuing impeachment proceeding against President Donald Trump is “not worthwhile at this point.”

“Based on what we have seen to date, going forward on impeachment is not worthwhile at this point. Very frankly, there is an election in 18 months and the American people will make a judgment,” Hoyer told CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash. Hoyer’s remarks come after the Department of Justice released the special counsel’s report, which states the investigation found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/18/steny-hoyer-after-mueller-report-impeachment-is-not-worthwhile-at-this-point/

Dem Sen. Blumenthal: Mueller Report Demonstrates ‘a National Scandal’ – It’s ‘Far From the End’

While speaking to reporters on Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated that the Mueller report demonstrates “a national scandal.”

Blumenthal said, “What’s demonstrated, in powerful and compelling detail in this report, is nothing less than a national scandal. And this report is far from the end of the inquiry that this country needs and deserves. It is the beginning of another chapter. I will be asking for Robert Mueller to testify, for an unredacted copy of this report, for all of the evidence and findings that underlie it, and for other testimony, including William Barr, who has agreed to testify in early May.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/18/dem-sen-blumenthal-mueller-report-demonstrates-a-national-scandal-its-far-from-the-end/

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1118922682437750791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Axelrod: Mueller Report ‘Virtually Inviting an Impeachment Probe’ from Congress

"The report provides a conundrum for Congress by virtually inviting an impeachment probe around the obstruction issue."

Democratic operative David Axelrod, who is best known for serving as chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, said Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted final report virtually invites “an impeachment probe” for President Trump on Thursday.

Attorney General William Barr released a redacted version of Mueller’s final report regarding whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. While Mueller’s final report found no evidence of collusion, there is still the question of whether Trump attempted to obstruct justice. “The report provides a conundrum for Congress by virtually inviting an impeachment probe around the obstruction issue,” Axelrod tweeted.

https://ntknetwork.com/axelrod-mueller-report-virtually-inviting-an-impeachment-probe-from-congress/

https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1118902263882440704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

>>6229639

Indeed, just polar opposite of what he's implying.

>>6229657

They will never go silently..they will always fight back until they are stopped dead in their tracks.

>>6229778

Agreed, its just another example of the voices out there…among all the others. Very familiar with his history, and then again..look at who he has worked for an supported all of these years, he's in as deep as the rest of them.

Microsoft Unveils Two Secret Data Centers Built for Classified Government Data

Microsoft is building data centers and expanding security capabilities to compete with Amazon to host sensitive government data.

Microsoft unveiled two data centers Wednesday designed exclusively to host the government’s secret classified data. Microsoft’s announcement is part of the company’s plan to compete with Amazon—the only company cleared to host the CIA and Defense Department’s secret and top secret classified data—and comes as both companies compete for a $10 billion military cloud contract called JEDI. While Microsoft’s new data centers are operational, the company awaits security accreditation from the Defense Department before military branches or intelligence agencies can begin moving secret classified data to the facilities. But Microsoft is offering a “private preview” for its existing customers in which they can move unclassified workloads to the data centers. Microsoft did not disclose the location of their data centers, though the company said they are 500 miles apart from each other. In addition, the company announced that each of its Azure Government regions—data centers that specifically support government customers—were granted what is called Impact Level 5, or IL5, provisional authorization from the Defense Department, meaning they can host, process and run analytics on the Pentagon’s sensitive unclassified data.

The Government’s Cloud Wars Continue Microsoft’s latest moves come as the demand for cloud computing services is at an all-time high, with the Pentagon alone expected to spend $2 billion on cloud in the coming year. Microsoft will compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services for the JEDI contract, which will essentially become the Pentagon’s war cloud, processing, storing and analyzing swaths of classified military data around the world. The Defense Department will assess the capabilities of Microsoft and AWS in the coming weeks, with an award expected by mid-July.

The government’s increasing reliance on cloud computing has attracted a bevy of suppliers, pitting longstanding defense contractors like IBM, Oracle and General Dynamics against newcomers like Google and AWS. Microsoft is both a longtime government contractor and a growing commercial cloud provider, and its ubiquitous Office 365 platform has it all but guaranteed to receive a chunk of the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract, another multibillion-dollar cloud deal.

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/04/microsoft-unveils-two-secret-data-centers-built-classified-government-data/156376/

Announcing Azure Government Secret private preview and expansion of DoD IL5

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-government-secret-private-preview-and-expansion-of-dod-il5/

The Details About the CIA's Deal With Amazon

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/

Another Defense Agency Migrates Data to Amazon Cloud

https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/03/another-defense-agency-migrates-data-amazon-cloud/155699/

Pentagon Says No JEDI Conflict, Narrows Field to AWS and Microsoft

https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/04/pentagon-says-no-jedi-conflict-narrows-field-aws-and-microsoft/156216/

Get Ready for the Pentagon’s Big Cloud Buy

https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/02/get-ready-pentagons-big-cloud-buy/154893/

Analysts: Pentagon’s Multibillion-Dollar DEOS Contract is Guaranteed for Microsoft

https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/03/analysts-pentagons-multibillion-dollar-deos-contract-guaranteed-microsoft/155901/