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Chairmen Devin Nunes & Trey Gowdy Plot "Never-Before-Used Procedure" To #ReleaseTheMemo
2018-01-22
[Washington Examiner via GP] Washington Examiner reports:

There’s no doubt Republicans want the public to see the classified memo. To get it out, they are studying a never-before-used procedure whereby House Intelligence Committee members would vote to make the memo public, after which the president would have five days to object.

If the president had no objection, the memo would become public after those five days. If the president did object, the matter would go to the full House, which could vote to overrule the president’s objections and release the memo anyway.

Republicans believe it is unlikely they would have to go that far; why would President Trump object to the release of a document allegedly showing that Obama administration officials abused the law in investigating Trump? But even if there were an objection, the feeling is the House would go ahead.

After millions of Americans called on Congress to release the memo, Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) announced Saturday that the process has begun.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  We should assume that they'll pull this crap (or other, equally damaging crap) in this year's elections and future ones.

After all, there haven't been any negative consequences to them so far.
Posted by: charger   2018-01-22 17:54  

#9  #4 Joe, good summary.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-01-22 17:08  

#8  A Never-Before-Used Procedure for a Never-Before-Experienced-Corruption.

"WOW and jaw-dropping" Interesting descriptors.

We're all pretty jaded regarding government after 8 years of WJC and 8 years of Obama and HRC. They and their puppet masters have dirtied-up our government and our country. #ReleaseTheDamnMemo ASAP.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-01-22 17:05  

#7  Just give the memo to Pelosi....
Posted by: Zebulon Chirong3710   2018-01-22 14:56  

#6  Nice work!
Posted by: newc   2018-01-22 14:55  

#5  Thx Joe.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-22 14:03  

#4  Here is what we now know, per intelligence gleaned form federal law enforcement sources with insider knowledge of what amounts to a plot by U.S. intelligence agencies to secure back door and illegal wiretaps of President Trump’s associates:

Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself.

To feign ignorance and to seemingly operate within U.S. laws, the agencies freelanced the wiretapping of Trump associates to the British spy agency GCHQ.

The decision to insert GCHQ as a back door to eavesdrop was sparked by the denial of two FISA Court warrant applications filed by the FBI to seek wiretaps of Trump associates.

GCHQ did not work from London or the UK. In fact the spy agency worked from NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, MD with direct NSA supervision and guidance to conduct sweeping surveillance on Trump associates.

The illegal wiretaps were initiated months before the controversial Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

The Justice Department and FBI set up the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner with controversial Russian officials to make Trump’s associates appear compromised.

Following the Trump Tower sit down, GCHQ began digitally wiretapping Manafort, Trump Jr., and Kushner.

After the concocted meeting by the Deep State, the British spy agency could officially justify wiretapping Trump associates as an intelligence front for NSA because the Russian lawyer at the meeting Natalia Veselnitskaya was considered an international security risk and prior to the June sit down was not even allowed entry into the United States or the UK, federal sources said.

By using GCHQ, the NSA and its intelligence partners had carved out a loophole to wiretap Trump without a warrant. While it is illegal for U.S. agencies to monitor phones and emails of U.S. citizens inside the United States absent a warrant, it is not illegal for British intelligence to do so. Even if the GCHQ was tapping Trump on U.S. soil at Fort Meade.

The wiretaps, secured through illicit scheming, have been used by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election, even though the evidence is considered “poisoned fruit.”
Posted by: Joe of the Jungle   2018-01-22 12:49  

#3  It's amazing how they can look at obvious facts like the Deep State illegally tried to keep Trump out of their turf, and come to the conclusion it's all a partisan frame-up. It's hallucinatory. Scott Adams has a great series of blog posts on these. People literally will hallucinate that you said something you didn't.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309   2018-01-22 05:03  

#2  Just leak it you morons!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-01-22 04:39  

#1  It's a Bob Mueller hit job !

Media Matters - #ReleaseTheMemo is the next phase in the anti-Mueller campaign.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-01-22 04:17  

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