Posted on 01/25/2018 8:26:45 AM PST by markomalley
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said Wednesday that the classified report compiled by the House Intelligence Committee, which reportedly details abuses by federal law enforcement and surveillance agencies, is “sloppy” and “baseless.” He also has not read the memo.
“I have not seen the memo,” Warner said, according to CNN. “But I think it is sloppy, careless, and again, I think has no grounding in fact.”
The senior senator form Virginia did not explain how he could know intricate details about a document he has not even read.
Under the rules of the U.S. House and the committee motion to make the report available to the entire House, only members of the House have been authorized to read the four-page classified memo. Before the memo can be made available to Senators and their staffs, executive branch agencies like the FBI, and the general public, the committee must vote to make the report publicly available. Congressional Democrats have repeatedly said they oppose making the report available to the public. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has said that the American public doesn’t have the necessary knowledge or experience to adequately understand the findings in the report and should therefore be denied access to it.
The memo, which has stoked both widespread speculation and outrage in Washington, reportedly contains information about the FBI’s reliance on a now-infamous dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele to obtain a warrant from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on associates of the Trump presidential campaign. To date, none of the dossier’s substantive allegations of illegal foreign collusion have been independently verified.
Steele, who has not set foot in Russia in nearly two decades, relied on information he received third-hand, including from Kremlin-connected Russians who may have used Steele to peddle disinformation in order to interfere with the 2016 presidential elections in the U.S. This dossier was funded in part by the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, and possibly others. The firm that commissioned the dossier, Fusion GPS, was at the same time working on behalf of a Russian company accused by the U.S. government of fraud and money laundering as part of a scheme to violate U.S. sanctions against corrupt Russians.
Republican lawmakers in the House are currently considering if, when, and how to make the House report available to the public. Under House rules, if the president objects in writing to the release of the report, a majority vote by the full House of Representatives is necessary to make the report public. Absent a presidential objection, the House Intelligence Committee can release the memo by majority vote.
I’m confident that Sen. Warner (D-Bag) accepted the Steele/Clinton Dossier without question or reservation.
Democrats are going to release their own “memo”....so we are going to have a ratchet up in the propaganda war. The Republicans are going to have release all documents to keep this from getting out of hand.
The senior senator form Virginia did not explain how he could know intricate details about a document he has not even read.
It is a skill developed by legislators, who often institute policies that they have not read either.
What an embarrassment for Virginia.
The best decision is made after taking in the most information, thus Warner does not know what he is talking about in reference to the memo. He may well know what he is talking about in reference to the disarray in the dems.
Like the ACA bill, Democrats don’t have to read it to draw conclusions. Just like they don’t have to wait for an investigation to conclude before exonerating the woman being investigated.
As I said on another thread, the Deep State is playing this game like Children.
Against Trump?? They will lose bigly.
Hey! I haven’t read the 4 page memo, but I have read the talking points handed to me by the political spin team of the Democratic Party, which is based on polling & focus group data that was compiled by the DNC allies in the DOJ and FBI.
I think the above is a better translation of what the ranking Democrat meant to say.
Seems like most of Virginia agrees with you (with the exception of NOVA, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Charlottesville).
Warner: I am commenting on a memo I haven’t read.
Brilliant!...
5.56mm
And of our two Senators from Virginia...Warner’s the smart one! Smart, of course, being a relative term...
F’ing morons...
This applies to Warner as well...
TheLastRefuge
@TheLastRefuge2
Schiff saw the Nunes memo this month, January 2018.
But Shiff never went to see underlying evidence in March 2017.
Schiff has no idea what Nunes has seen; or what evidence underlines the memo.
Only three people do. Chairman Nunes, DNI Dan Coats and NSA Director Mike Rogers.
6:54 PM - 24 Jan 2018
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/956359483147669504
“I haven’t read it, but it’s not worth reading.”
Or, `I would not eat that double cheeseburger if I were you, it looks like it has gone bad. You had better leave it with me and I’ll get rid of it for you.’
The `rats deal with one another and their base like this and are surprised when adults laugh at them.
We're too stoo-pid. Oh, the gall of these bastards!
The memo spells out the very real possibility the FBI went after a Presidential candidate and President elect. So the Rats start attacking the memo without the least bit of concern about the implications of the memo.
This from the party that slandered Bush because of the “seriousness of the charges”. What it must be like to have 90% of MSM totally on your side.
Similar to an interview with a WaPo reporter I heard on CNN yesterday. The reporter authored the article that claimed Trump asked McCabe directly who he voted for in the election and complained to McCabe about his wife’s dealings with Virginia Gov Terry McCaulife. The CNN host asked the reporter to describe the setting and the reporter did. When questioned by the CNN host whether the WaPo reporter was told directly by McCabe that Trump asked him directly who McCabe voted for, the reporter then back off and said he did not have direct knowledge and was not told that by McCabe, but that you can infer that all kinds of things like that would be said by Trump. I was embarrassed for the reporter...he totally discredited his whole story with that one comment...all speculation...no facts.
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