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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 01:23 AM Jan 2018

House GOPers Say A Secret Memo Could End The Trump-Russia Probe. Their Staff Wrote It.

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― House Republicans spent the end of the workweek telling everyone who would listen that the American people must be allowed to see a top-secret four-page document that could bring an end to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 elections.

One thing about that document: Republican staffers wrote it.

The memo Republican staffers compiled reveals information that is “absolutely shocking,” “sickening,” “jaw-dropping” and “worse than Watergate,” GOP members of Congress said Thursday and Friday. The document could send government officials to jail, one congressman said. “Is this happening in America or is this the KGB?” asked another.

The document, which alleges abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the FBI’s quiet counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in the final months of the 2016 election, was actually compiled by Republican staffers on the House Intelligence Committee. That committee voted along partisan lines this week to allow any member of Congress to take a peek at the document themselves. Republican members soon flocked to a secure room to read the memo written by their allies — and then ran to tell the press about it.

Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-russia-mueller-fbi-doj-house-gop_us_5a613a58e4b01d91b25446b5?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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House GOPers Say A Secret Memo Could End The Trump-Russia Probe. Their Staff Wrote It. (Original Post) Stonepounder Jan 2018 OP
They are so crooked you could screw them into the ground. CentralMass Jan 2018 #1
Stealing this! Cracklin Charlie Jan 2018 #2
GOP smoke screen pecosbob Jan 2018 #3
Reminds me of a carnival sideshow act jmbar2 Jan 2018 #4
Joe Scarborough will probably get the gist of it. Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #5
They sound terrified. alittlelark Jan 2018 #6
Nunes is hiding something. Scarsdale Jan 2018 #7
Got this, M$M?! Be sure and let Cha Jan 2018 #8
This admin has given investigative journalism a Hortensis Jan 2018 #13
Adam Schiff has destroyed the basis of this memo. It is full of disinformation & lack of info. . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2018 #9
It sounds like a classic deflection FakeNoose Jan 2018 #15
Is it not predicated on the Steele dossier being the basis for FISA warrants? Roland99 Jan 2018 #21
They must push their conspiracy theories to prop up their brainwashed base of Fox junkies wishstar Jan 2018 #10
well, in a way, they are right... getagrip_already Jan 2018 #11
Yeah. Just like Nunes Mc Mike Jan 2018 #12
Hey GOP, by some small chance have you read the Book "Collusion" turbinetree Jan 2018 #14
Thank you. Delphinus Jan 2018 #16
Your welcome turbinetree Jan 2018 #18
My guess is they took their usual bullshit accusations Bradical79 Jan 2018 #17
Yepper, spot on turbinetree Jan 2018 #19
LOL. And it was going to be wrapped up by now, if I recall correctly. Downtown Hound Jan 2018 #20

jmbar2

(6,143 posts)
4. Reminds me of a carnival sideshow act
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 01:44 AM
Jan 2018

For $2 you can see the most shocking thing you've ever seen in your life... Step right this way...

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
5. Joe Scarborough will probably get the gist of it.
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 01:51 AM
Jan 2018

He's close with some of the Republicans in Congress.

It sounds like a partisan summary of "evidence" and supposed "facts"?

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
7. Nunes is hiding something.
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 05:38 AM
Jan 2018

They are all knee deep in Russian money. Since they have no truly DECENT candidates to run for the WH, they take the slimiest, most corrupt, low intelligence person they could find - tRump. As McConnell said "He will sign anything we put in front of him" They have all broken laws, and now the veil is being lifted, and they are terrified. Their "easy job for easy pay" with all those perks are in jeopardy. The gop is going down, due to their own greed and selfishness. Good riddance. I can not think of a single gop member that I respect, admire, or even wish well.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. This admin has given investigative journalism a
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 08:18 AM
Jan 2018

big shot in the arm. They will report, all right.

FakeNoose

(35,817 posts)
15. It sounds like a classic deflection
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 10:38 AM
Jan 2018

Unless it's the pee-pee tape I don't want to hear about it. As a matter of fact I'm beginning to believe that Mueller already has the pee-pee tape.

Roland99

(53,345 posts)
21. Is it not predicated on the Steele dossier being the basis for FISA warrants?
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 02:08 PM
Jan 2018

If so, that's already been disproved by virtue of Papadopoulos having talked to that Aussie diplomat

wishstar

(5,488 posts)
10. They must push their conspiracy theories to prop up their brainwashed base of Fox junkies
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 06:50 AM
Jan 2018

Very weak lame attempt to lash back after Democrats won a major round in the political warfare by getting Simpson's Steele Dossier transcript released showing that FBI actually had several other sources warning of Trump/Russia justifying the Trump/Russia investigation. Simpson also revealed that nearly 8 months of Fusion's Trump/Russia research had already occurred under conservative Free Beacon funding before Democratic funding allowed Simpson to hire Steele, a highly regarded nonpartisan intelligence pro who was so concerned with what he found to go to FBI..

getagrip_already

(17,461 posts)
11. well, in a way, they are right...
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:51 AM
Jan 2018

People can go to prison over this memo... for writing it to obstruct justice and spoil prosecutions.

You can't mis-use classified information to attack prosecutors in a case you are implicated in.

Classic espionage tactic though.

Mc Mike

(9,173 posts)
12. Yeah. Just like Nunes
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 08:13 AM
Jan 2018

holding his photo op fake press conference on White House grounds: "I'm here to tell the President all this new stuff, that clears him. All this new stuff he just told me.''

turbinetree

(25,343 posts)
14. Hey GOP, by some small chance have you read the Book "Collusion"
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 10:29 AM
Jan 2018

Secret Money, Dirty Money, and how Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, by Luke Harding


And then in google type in Dana Rohrabacher and Russia, and see what pops up, then for added enjoyment have you seen the reporting on what your speaker gets and does with Russian money in elections, look at what Joy Reid connected the dots on a congressional race in Florida




Then finally your party and your speaker of the house, after all "everything" goes through him, and I mean everything has to be approved by him the Paul "ayn rand" Ryan POS decided too put out in front of the camera one Jim Jordon from Ohio, and Matt Gaetz, from Florida, these two individuals right along with that Nunes asshole, are basically committing treason, along with everyone else in your corrupt party, when it comes to the "RULE of LAW and the Constitution.
The question should be asked, do you support country or party, and why are you and your party protecting a traitor and criminal enterprise, just so he can sign legislation------------------that's fucked up, I mean really fucked up.

You and your bunch "cherry-pick" information, so since you have leaked this document, let the public read it, you, and I for one do not want to bring to an end corruption and treason.......................I want people thrown in jail, and if Nunes staff committed a crime by writing specious comments in this so called memo, then they need to be brought before the grand jury, these are the "same" tea party, freedom caucus hypocrites, that use adjectives to just hear themselves speak.

I personally don't like traitors running interference and creating deflection when it comes to a foreign government attacking my democracy, and having individuals basically blaming my institutions has the problem............ when they are the problem.

And to get back to the book, the dots are pretty much connected in the book...........your leader is criminal, and has been for quite sometime, along with a bunch of hypocrites that are now in power, under indictment and those that have plead guilty, your attics don't hold water, you have former Lt. General and representative of your party establishment that plead guilty, you have two other individuals that are under indictment for crimes-------------if there was no indictment or guilty pleas, you could "try" to plead your case.......................... but your party is nothing more than a criminal organization, that never wanted to find out anything-----------------it's about the money......................and your hands are dirty

Read the book.........................


SO FUCK YOU..............................





November 2018 cannot get here fast enough





 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
17. My guess is they took their usual bullshit accusations
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 11:06 AM
Jan 2018

And added some classified info to it. Voila! Secret memo created!

turbinetree

(25,343 posts)
19. Yepper, spot on
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 11:16 AM
Jan 2018

When Paul "ayn rand" Ryan gave them the green light to do it, someone needs to ask why.

He also gave the green light for old Nunes to run over to the white house, in the wee hours of morning to have "a talk"


Ryan is so dirty, he has always put party over country, and this criminal investigation shows the true colors of that republican party...............when it came to a democrat, they never stopped when the facts didn't go there way..................they made it up, look no further than Issa and Gowdy

and in this situation they are trying to force there way into making it go their way, that is criminal, that's not how the "Rule of Law " works, you cannot make up a justification for breaking the law



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