by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Congressman Devin Nunes, the Republican Chair of the (oxymoron alert!) House Intelligence Committee, has apparently penned a memo that castigates the FBI for allegedly targeting the Trump circus during the 2016 presidential campaign. The memo, which has not been released to the public as of yet, supposedly lambastes the FBI for targeting Carter Page, a Trump foreign policy advisor, as a person who was subject to manipulation by Russian spy agencies.
This week the House Intelligence Committee voted to send the four-page memo to Trump with the ultimate aim of him making it public as a part of his on-going war with the FBI. Trump is reportedly eager to release the document, and has even told some members of Congress that it will be released, but he is currently having it reviewed to insure that the document's release poses no security threats to the country. Some see this procedural delay as little more than a suspense-building drum roll for the memo's ultimate dissemination.
Democrats on the committee who voted to oppose the memo's release were quick to note that the memo is based on documents that Devin Nunes, the author, reportedly did not even bother to read. One Democratic congressman on the committee asked Nunes during a stormy closed-door hearing if he had worked with the White House on drafting the memo, and Nunes refused to answer.
So, to recap, for the past ten days or so House Republicans have been touting an "explosive" secret memo which they wrote, one which will reportedly make the FBI look like it is pursuing an on-going vendetta against Donald Trump, and a memo which the Trump White House more than likely helped to draft.
And we are supposed to be impressed? America must now hold its collective breath in silent anticipation of this revelation that will reset the Trump presidency and paint it with the soft pastels of victimhood? The Russian subornation of our democratic electoral process will cease to be relevant, or even real, because Nunes and the Trump White House managed to bang out a four-page document aimed at proving the FBI targeted one Trump advisor as a possible spy - at a time when Trump surrogates were flitting around Russia like so many fleas on a bear?
Who is the enemy here - the FBI or the Russian government of Valdimir Putin?
(The Trump administration gave its own answer to that question this week when Trump declined to impose sanctions against Russia, sanctions which were passed almost unanimously by Congress last year - while at almost the same instant floating a suggestion that the Justice Department should prosecute Robert Mueller.)
Now, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic Vice Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has authored a rebuttal memo to the one prepared by Nunes. Schiff's memo, a ten-page retort, lays down challenges to the material hammered together by Nunes and the White House.
The House Intelligence Committee voted along partisan lines not to release Schiff's memo.
That's seems fair, now doesn't it?
At the end of the day it's all sausage and counter-sausage.
Citizen Journalist
Congressman Devin Nunes, the Republican Chair of the (oxymoron alert!) House Intelligence Committee, has apparently penned a memo that castigates the FBI for allegedly targeting the Trump circus during the 2016 presidential campaign. The memo, which has not been released to the public as of yet, supposedly lambastes the FBI for targeting Carter Page, a Trump foreign policy advisor, as a person who was subject to manipulation by Russian spy agencies.
This week the House Intelligence Committee voted to send the four-page memo to Trump with the ultimate aim of him making it public as a part of his on-going war with the FBI. Trump is reportedly eager to release the document, and has even told some members of Congress that it will be released, but he is currently having it reviewed to insure that the document's release poses no security threats to the country. Some see this procedural delay as little more than a suspense-building drum roll for the memo's ultimate dissemination.
Democrats on the committee who voted to oppose the memo's release were quick to note that the memo is based on documents that Devin Nunes, the author, reportedly did not even bother to read. One Democratic congressman on the committee asked Nunes during a stormy closed-door hearing if he had worked with the White House on drafting the memo, and Nunes refused to answer.
So, to recap, for the past ten days or so House Republicans have been touting an "explosive" secret memo which they wrote, one which will reportedly make the FBI look like it is pursuing an on-going vendetta against Donald Trump, and a memo which the Trump White House more than likely helped to draft.
And we are supposed to be impressed? America must now hold its collective breath in silent anticipation of this revelation that will reset the Trump presidency and paint it with the soft pastels of victimhood? The Russian subornation of our democratic electoral process will cease to be relevant, or even real, because Nunes and the Trump White House managed to bang out a four-page document aimed at proving the FBI targeted one Trump advisor as a possible spy - at a time when Trump surrogates were flitting around Russia like so many fleas on a bear?
Who is the enemy here - the FBI or the Russian government of Valdimir Putin?
(The Trump administration gave its own answer to that question this week when Trump declined to impose sanctions against Russia, sanctions which were passed almost unanimously by Congress last year - while at almost the same instant floating a suggestion that the Justice Department should prosecute Robert Mueller.)
Now, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic Vice Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has authored a rebuttal memo to the one prepared by Nunes. Schiff's memo, a ten-page retort, lays down challenges to the material hammered together by Nunes and the White House.
The House Intelligence Committee voted along partisan lines not to release Schiff's memo.
That's seems fair, now doesn't it?
At the end of the day it's all sausage and counter-sausage.
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