Politically explosive Senate investigations run through a very reluctant Mitt Romney

Senator Mitt Romney has his foot hovering over the brakes for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s ongoing probe into alleged — and so far unsubstantiated — malfeasance by Obama-era intelligence officials during the 2016 and 2017 Russia investigations.And that’s where it remained on Thursday, as the Utah Republican voted in lockstep with his party’s majority on the panel, 8-6, to approve nearly three dozen subpoenas for top ex-Obama officials such as former FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

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