I don't know a ton about it, but twitter is on fire with this, up to about 250k retweets right now. Based on the RTs, it seems like conservatives and Hillary-haters (really tight Venn diagram, I know) are super giddy...but as giddy as I've seen my very liberal friends recently about the Mueller investigation. Anyone have insight to this? And is it true that Congress can release classified info if it's "in the people's interest?"
Since this is apparently something Republicans wrote and are now lobbying to 'release', I am skeptical. I mean, I wrote a secret memo that says Denny Crane shoves carrots up his nose. If only I could #releasethememo! But we'll see. barfo
I'm trying to read about it right now. Allegedly there's a memo detailing a bunch of bad stuff done by gov't folks during the election process. And since it's a bunch of the more red-leaning friends that are loving it (and blues are quiet---just the opposite of the Mueller news when it comes out) I wanted to ask here--I know that there are very savvy folks on both sides of the aisle that may have better info/more fully formed opinions/previous data points that they've read. I feel kinda dumb. People that I read and trust to be "serious journalists" are saying it's big, and no one's leaked anything as of yet. Just trying to get up to speed.
House conservatives negotiating with GOP leaders over how to avert a government shutdown brought a fresh demand to the last-minute talks: release classified information they say raises questions about the origins of the FBI’s probe into President Donald Trump’s possible connections to Russia. A Republican lawmaker said they tried to pressure Speaker Paul Ryan to allow a vote on making public a document they say shows Justice Department and FBI misconduct and political bias in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign and whether anyone close to Trump colluded in it. The facts contained in the memo from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are “jaw-dropping and demand full transparency,” said Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican. The top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff of California, bashed the move. He dismissed the committee document as “talking points” drafted by Republican staffers that he said are “profoundly misleading” and “rife” with inaccuracies. Odd Juxtaposition The odd juxtaposition of issues -- tying the Russia probe to the debate over a stopgap spending bill -- came as much of the government faced a threatened shutdown on Friday at midnight. Gaetz said the effort was led by Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows of North Carolina and caucus co-founder Jim Jordan of Ohio. Neither Meadows nor Jordan could immediately be reached for comment. “Mr Meadows and Mr. Jordan and many conservatives want to include in this negotiation a requirement that the House make public intelligence documents that highlight the unfair treatment of the president” by the FBI and the Justice Department, Gaetz said. Gaetz said he couldn’t describe the contents of the entire memo put together by the House Intelligence Committee “because to do so would reveal classified information, in the absence of a vote to do so,” he said. “Just 218 votes and the American people can read this intelligence information that goes to the fundamentals of our democracy.” Tense Scene Schiff said a decision to let House members outside the Intelligence Committee read the document in question came in a party-line committee vote on Thursday morning. The scene inside the room was described as tense during that vote. Throughout the rest of the day, rank-and-file Republicans came to a secure room in the Capitol to read the memo. The push for wider, public access to the document is part of a Republican effort to reinforce allegations the FBI relied partly on an unverified “dossier” to obtain surveillance warrants against Trump associates. That 35-page dossier was assembled as opposition research against then-candidate Trump, including with money from the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...brought-russia-probe-demand-to-shutdown-talks
Except, of course, that Maddow didn't write the tax returns herself. And they were, by all accounts, Trump's actual (partial) tax returns. barfo
Obama, Hillary, and Comey have all gone into hiding, arrests imminent. Passports canceled. Per the internets!
