The House Intelligence Committee drafted a four page memo outlining its initial findings in the investigation of misconduct by the Obama Justice Department, the Obama FBI and the Democrats (including the Clinton campaign) in using the national security apparatus of the USA to spy on the Trump campaign. That includes obtaining a search warrant from the FISA court based upon information known to be false that was paid for by the DNC and the Clinton campaign. It's a memo that outlines the sort of misconduct that could lead to a great many people being fired or going to jail. It's also a memo that would put to bed once and for all the investigation into supposed collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016. That investigation would be disclosed as nothing more than a Clinton dirty trick. The committee has now voted to release the memo, and both the Democrats and their media allies are going into a panicked melt-down. Consider this:
1. This morning, CBS News actually described what the memo "purports to allege". The reporter couldn't even bring himself to just say "allege". He was desperate to try to undermine the document before it is released to the public.
2. Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi was asked on CNN (of all places) why the public shouldn't see the memo. Her answer was pitiful. She went on about how America respects our people in the intelligence community and that every one of them would say that the release of the memo is reckless. It was an obvious talking point. Chris Cuomo was interviewing her, and he then said that the director of the FBI Wray, had reviewed the memo and had not come out against its release. All Pelosi could say in response to Cuomo was that he "did not know what he was talking about." Actually, Cuomo was completely correct. Wray reviewed the memo and then went back to the FBI and forced out the deputy director Andrew McCabe who the memo supposedly purports to allege was involved in the illegal knowing misuse of false information to get a FISA warrant. (sorry, I couldn't resist the "purports to allege".)
3. Adam Schiff is the ranking Democrat on the committee that wrote the memo. For the last year, he has selectively leaked all manner of secret information hoping to undermine President Trump and to bolster the investigation by the special prosecutor. Now, he is suddenly "horrified" at the prospects that the memo might lead to disclosure of confidential information. But he's doing more. He's trying to make the memo into some sort of conspiracy theory by claiming that since news of the memo broke, he has been receiving death threats and nasty phone messages. Now I don't know whether or not Schiff has gotten death threats; I certainly hope not. I do know that those threats aren't coming from the Republicans on the committee or from responsible citizens. Schiff has been the cheerleader in chief for the Trump-Russia collusion hoax for the last year. If the memo shows that the whole investigation was just another Clinton dirty trick, Schiff should pay the price for his behavior, but that is a political price. If he did something illegal, he should be booted from Congress or even prosecuted.
1. This morning, CBS News actually described what the memo "purports to allege". The reporter couldn't even bring himself to just say "allege". He was desperate to try to undermine the document before it is released to the public.
2. Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi was asked on CNN (of all places) why the public shouldn't see the memo. Her answer was pitiful. She went on about how America respects our people in the intelligence community and that every one of them would say that the release of the memo is reckless. It was an obvious talking point. Chris Cuomo was interviewing her, and he then said that the director of the FBI Wray, had reviewed the memo and had not come out against its release. All Pelosi could say in response to Cuomo was that he "did not know what he was talking about." Actually, Cuomo was completely correct. Wray reviewed the memo and then went back to the FBI and forced out the deputy director Andrew McCabe who the memo supposedly purports to allege was involved in the illegal knowing misuse of false information to get a FISA warrant. (sorry, I couldn't resist the "purports to allege".)
3. Adam Schiff is the ranking Democrat on the committee that wrote the memo. For the last year, he has selectively leaked all manner of secret information hoping to undermine President Trump and to bolster the investigation by the special prosecutor. Now, he is suddenly "horrified" at the prospects that the memo might lead to disclosure of confidential information. But he's doing more. He's trying to make the memo into some sort of conspiracy theory by claiming that since news of the memo broke, he has been receiving death threats and nasty phone messages. Now I don't know whether or not Schiff has gotten death threats; I certainly hope not. I do know that those threats aren't coming from the Republicans on the committee or from responsible citizens. Schiff has been the cheerleader in chief for the Trump-Russia collusion hoax for the last year. If the memo shows that the whole investigation was just another Clinton dirty trick, Schiff should pay the price for his behavior, but that is a political price. If he did something illegal, he should be booted from Congress or even prosecuted.
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