Brennan's Warning: Some Lawmakers Didn't Get 'Gravity' Of Russian Meddling

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published AUGUST 25, 2017 11:16 AM

Former CIA Director John Brennan warned his employees in an internal memo last December that some members of Congress did not “understand and appreciate the importance of gravity” of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, Buzzfeed News reported Thursday.

The memo, which Buzzfeed obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, did not mention the specific lawmakers who Brennan referred to by name. Three unnamed intelligence sources told the publication that the lawmakers in question were Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and John Cornyn (R-TX), a particularly close ally of the Trump administration.

In the months since President Donald Trump took office, both McConnell and Cornyn have continued to downplay Russia’s interference in the U.S. election and any possible assistance the Trump team may have provided for that effort.

Brennan testified in May on the collective assessment that he and other intelligence leaders reached about Russia’s “brazen” interference in the 2016 race through bots pushing fake news and the release of emails hacked from Democratic Party organizations and operatives.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/brennan-internal-memo-some-congress-dont-understand-gravity-russia-meddling

[Le Gaucher]

1. Dont get it or Dont want to get it ?? nt

[meow2u3]

7. Don't want to get it, or have they've been paid off by the Russians?

[poli3]

2. He shouldn't forget officials like Comey also didn't get the gravity

Comey willingly used a forged russian document as his basis for going public on Hillary's investigation, he willingly utilized russian propaganda.

[sprinkleeninow]

3. I am not in the 'business' world, and I see a word 'collaborate'

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or a derivative thereof used all over the place.
Looks like it became nouveau chic within the last half decade or so.

Although it irks me, I am going to borrow it here. Just once. (Holding my ears.)

Those named senators and Comey appear to be 'collaborators' regarding the GE interference/manipulation.

[Juliusseizure]

10. Agree 100%

Comey should have been fired for that and ironic he was fired by the same tool he helped get elected. I think that's called Karma.

[sprinkleeninow]

11. Comin' back around to bite

ya in ze derriere.

Hopefully more are queued up to receive a bite. 😈

[byronius]

4. +1000

[oasis]

5. GOP jellyfish didn't want to "get it" since it would stall their dream

of gutting government programs.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Oh, they "get it". It's OK if repubicans win elections unlawfully.

Not OK if democrats win. And they're not going to allow democrats to win in the future, so no problem!

[sandensea]

17. +1

That's basically what the relationship between the two major parties has boiled down to by now.

[Botany]

8. Both Ryan and McConnell knew about Russia helping Trump and the Republicans too.

How did McConnell know that after the election he would have another person to
vote for the SCOTUS?

Paul Ryan is on tape telling his fellow republicans not to talk about Trump getting
$$$ from Russia. Something like hey we are family and we keep our secrets inside
our family. When asked about that quote Ryan's staff said he was only "joking."

It was a coup and we had treason.

[Justice]

9. McConnell blocking Garland; must have known

Wasn't taking too big of a risk. Media still doesn't call him out for blocking bipartisan reporting of hacking. So content to keep mum. Why?

The GOP has a fever - wasn't held accountable for Iraq lies. Fever needs to be broken or we are really not going to survive as a country in present form.

[BigmanPigman]

12. What is the term, "willfully ignorant"? Does NOT apply in this case.

They are willfully malignant.

[Dustlawyer]

13. John "Cornholio" Cornyn is a prick of the highest order!

That evil pale ghost lurks behind at every Republican press conference. Fits right in with the un-patriotic, sold out leaders of the Republican Party!

Donors first!

[matt819]

14. Didn't and still don't?

Or didn't and now do?

Or didn't, don't, and don't care?

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. They get it, they just don't care

The only thing that matters to them is really winning so they can cut taxes for the rich again. There is no level of treason that they will reject in order to achieve that objective. NO. LEVEL.

[sarcasmo]

16. Don't understand would be the likely answer.

How can you explain hacking to Gramps McCain and Lindsey?

[Solly Mack]

18. More like they didn't care.