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House Intelligence Committee votes to release documents alleging missteps by the FBI while surveilli

Erod said:
The daily ass-kicking continues. Lol

A full investigation of the FBI, CIA, Hillary, and Obama is in order for illegal surveillance, and gross abuse of power.
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Some ass kicking is happening alright. Republicans are officially investigating career law enforcement officials and have impugned our Intelligence agencies because they're investigating Trump and checking his power. The United States needs these institutions, and Republicans are burning them to the ground to protect one man.
 
Verax said:
So they're going to comment on and summarize stuff we can't see? Some of who are doing everything they can to obstruct the investigation. I don't have high hopes.
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High hopes of what, exactly? Go ahead, call for impeachment.
 
Paperview said:
Germany, 1935
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We certainly are another step or two closer. The Republicans in Congress have shown that they will NOT exercise their duties as a separate and co-equal brand hot government and this is merely the latest example. The elections in November may be our last chance to save what we know as our democratic republic from taking several steps more in the direction of authoritarianism. That much is at risk.
 
Somerville said:
Of course it would sell, urban fantasy is a very popular genre.
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Nah, it would not, people would not believe it, a plot has and needs to have some substance that has a reality/believably factor. And even fantasy could not come up with this, and if they did, it would not be published as not having a decent footing to be credible.
 
McCabe leaves the FBI early, under pressure, rather than being demoted, because of the investigation that is being done by the OIG, the day after Wray read the memo. It sure don't look good for Wray. I have a feeling this ain't gonna turn out like the Democrats want it to. Hello 2018.

Oh, and Nunes had Wray review the memo for inaccuracies and to make sure that no classified information was going to be released.

Here is where the left starts to call Wray a shill and holler about his bias.
 
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ttwtt78640 said:
High hopes of what, exactly? Go ahead, call for impeachment.
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I don't have high hopes that what is released will be objective and an honest record of the situation.
 
Cardinal said:
Some ass kicking is happening alright. Republicans are officially investigating career law enforcement officials and have impugned our Intelligence agencies because they're investigating Trump and checking his power. The United States needs these institutions, and Republicans are burning them to the ground to protect one man.
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So why did Wray get rid of McCabe if there's nothing in this?
 
NonoBadDog said:
McCabe leaves the FBI early, under pressure, rather than being demoted, because of the investigation that is being done by the OIG, the day after Wray read the memo. It sure don't look good for Wray. I have a feeling this ain't gonna turn out like the Democrats want it to. Hello 2018.
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They're wrapping themselves in the flag here now. I'm touched by it all. Truly touched.
 
Paperview said:
Germany, 1935
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It's kind of hard not to see a coup going on. In the month and a half since the Republican party finished coalescing around the President and began attacking the Mueller investigation in full, they've forced an investigation into the Clinton Foundation, forced out a the deputy director of the FBI, have begun an investigation into the law enforcement agency responsible for investigating a sitting President for multiple crimes, and the White House has summarily decided not to apply sanctions that Congress passed in a veto-proof majority. If this doesn't qualify as a coup, then the definition is a lot stricter than I ever understood.

History is moving very, very fast now. I don't think we'll recognize the political landscape come November.

Or as somebody else said, "Wow, things went banana republic fast today."
 
humbolt said:
They're wrapping themselves in the flag here now. I'm touched by it all. Truly touched.
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If we follow the example that the Democrats have so faithfully followed and defended, everyone on the new team, that Wray is bringing in, should be Republicans, since he might be investigating Democrats and one can never trust people in the same party to be objective.
 
Verax said:
I don't have high hopes that what is released will be objective and an honest record of the situation.
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Neither do I but at least more will be subject to investigation. The more fall guys that are named then the more likely that a few will spill the beans.
 
Erod said:
So why did Wray get rid of McCabe if there's nothing in this?
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I'm sure you have an insane conspiracy theory that you got from Hannity to explain it.
 
Verax said:
So is this memo a Republican "summary"? As in open to interpretation of the facts?
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As in a cherry picking of the facts, with an anti-investigation spin on it
 
Captain America said:
You GOT to be ****tin' me! Are you for realz?

A bill that was passed pretty much unanimously?

Well, if that don't lock in some of the Trump/Russia reach-around assumptions, I don't know what will.

It will be interesting to see the Trumptards explain or defend that. (But we can bet they will.)

I need to validate this. Haven't heard the news yet, this evening.

I got some catching up to do.

I'm going to make popcorn!
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Luke Harding's book Collusion spells out pretty clearly why Trump will lift the sanctions. It follows in line with the change in the GOP platform at the 2016 convention concerning Ukraine, and Trump's negative statements about NATO.
Putin and Trump are best buds, (so he thinks.)
 
Cardinal said:
NEWS: schiff announces the GOP majority told the democrat minority today that house intel has opened an investigation into the DOJ & FBI
-Kelly Cohen, justice reporter @dcexaminer • also @nbcswashington
https://twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/958118260041502720

Schiff says House Intel voted to release NUNES memo; he says they would not agree to release Democratic memo as of now
-Manu Raju, Senior Congressional Correspondent, @CNN
https://twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/958118260041502720

This is now open trench warfare
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Stick a fork in Nunez' career. It is done.
 
RAMOSS said:
As in a cherry picking of the facts, with an anti-investigation spin on it
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Quite the mess.
And from a trump appointee.
Trump is willing to burn down the country to protect himself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...hp-top-table-main_memovote-645:homepage/story

But even before Monday’s vote, the memo has strained relations between the White House and the Justice Department, and the Justice Department and Congress.

The president wants the memo to go public. He has also told close advisers that the document is starting to make people realize how the FBI and the Mueller probe are biased against him, according to one person familiar with his remarks.
The Justice Department, however, has come out against the memo’s release. Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote to Congress last week, warning them that releasing the memo without giving the Justice Department and the FBI an opportunity to review it “would be extraordinarily reckless,’’ because doing so could cause harm to national security and ongoing investigations.

Since that letter was written, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray was allowed to review the memo, though it has not been reviewed by the FBI’s in-house lawyers, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Speech by Schiff.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/958125817371987971

Things are about to get dark.

danarhea said:
Stick a fork in Nunez' career. It is done.
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We crossed a dark line when the DOJ was pressured into opening an investigation into Trump's past political rival, so we're no longer operating on the terrain of pre-2016 where Nunes' career would have been expected to implode.

We're officially entering a new chapter in American history.
 
Cardinal said:
I'm sure you have an insane conspiracy theory that you got from Hannity to explain it.
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Would you accept CNN as a source. I know you are hyper sensitive about your sources.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/29/politics/chris-wray-mccabe-fbi/index.html
FBI Director Chris Wray hinted to FBI staff in an all-employee email that a government watchdog investigation played a role in FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's departure Monday, sources who have seen the memo told CNN.
Wray said in the message he could not comment on the coming inspector general report about the FBI's conduct during the 2016 election and defended himself as not being swayed by politics.
A source familiar with the matter told CNN that Wray had informed McCabe he is bringing in his own team, which McCabe would not be a part of, and that it was McCabe's decision whether to stay at the FBI or leave.
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Earlier Monday, The New York Times reported that McCabe's sudden decision to step down came after he told friends he felt pressure to do so from Wray.
The Times, citing one official close to McCabe, said the deputy director's decision to leave before his anticipated retirement in March came after Wray discussed the looming inspector general report and suggested demoting McCabe from the number two post at the bureau.
Rather than accept the demotion, the source told the Times, McCabe informed colleagues he would leave the bureau Monday.
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Or maybe another paragon of liberal leaning views that you so dearly love:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-fbi.html
In a recent conversation, Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, raised concerns about a forthcoming inspector general report examining the actions of Mr. McCabe and other senior F.B.I. officials during the 2016 presidential campaign, when the bureau was investigating both Hillary Clinton’s email use and the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia. In that discussion, according to one former law enforcement official close to Mr. McCabe, Mr. Wray suggested moving Mr. McCabe into another job, which would have been a demotion.

Instead, the former official said, Mr. McCabe chose to leave.

In a message to F.B.I. employees on Monday afternoon, Mr. Wray said he would not comment on “specific aspects” of the inspector general review. He said that he and his deputy spoke, and that afterward, Mr. McCabe said he planned to take leave immediately and retire on March 18. Mr. Wray thanked Mr. McCabe for his service.
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JANFU said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...pid=hp_no-name_no-name:page/breaking-news-bar


Has the WH reviewed this?
Has the FBI/DOJ reviewed this?
Nunes this will blow back on you and the Republican Party
I understood Nunes was recused. Not really. He is still directing this.
And Paul Ryan support this.
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GOP is in full treason mode. This is how dictatorships are formed.

President Trump fuming on Air Force One that "Trump's Justice Department" didn't do enough to protect him.

Here's hoping we buck all of human history and oust the dictator without violence.
 
Rogue Valley said:
The Nunes memo (four pages I understand) lacks the requisite supporting documents (hundreds of pages) that provide the proper context.

But then again, proper context is the last thing Nunes cares about.
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GOP is using Russia's wikileaks tactic: comb through huge sets of data (DNC emails, classified intel, Stzrok texts), take a few crumbs out of context and misrepresent them to sway public opinion.

This will pick up until 2018 at a minimum. GOP is full-on complicit. Ryan lied, too bad he couldn't find a spine.
 
Absentglare said:
GOP is in full treason mode. This is how dictatorships are formed.

President Trump fuming on Air Force One that "Trump's Justice Department" didn't do enough to protect him.

Here's hoping we buck all of human history and oust the dictator without violence.
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a vile race quislings
 
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