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CONFESSIONS OF A CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER: Forget The Nunes Memo & Focus On Grassley-Graham
DC Whispers ^ | 2-11-18

Posted on 02/12/2018 7:27:31 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

The following are the insights and opinions of a former senior congressional staffer who is now enjoying what he calls the “…happy uncertainty of a self-imposed semi-retirement.” He spent nearly eleven years working on Capitol Hill, arriving there shortly before Barack Obama became president, and then leaving shortly after Donald Trump succeeded him. His extended family’s ties to prior administrations go back decades – at the highest levels. Now approaching middle-age, (ancient by D.C. staffer standards) and despite all that time in the belly of the “D.C. beast” he still manages to look younger than his years. He’s quick to laugh, slow to anger, and enjoys the occasional (and most often inappropriate) joke while also being an occasional (and always highly valued) D.C. Whispers’ source. His contact list is an impressive whos-who of D.C. power players (a benefit of his political pedigree of which he readily admits he had nothing to do with) including both active and retired politicians, staffers, and (too many) lobbyists. (He feels most lobbyists are decent people working in what he calls an epically f*cked up system.) He has attended two inauguration balls, four Congressional retreats, (to which he says members of Congress drink – a lot) and seven State of the Union addresses.

(Excerpt) Read more at dcwhispers.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fisagate; graham; grassley; grassleymemo; nunes; obama
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Read the whole thing at the link. Although he doesn't name names (except for heavy hints towards Obama), the incident he describes is particularly alarming regarding our elections.
1 posted on 02/12/2018 7:27:31 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

17 minutes late....


2 posted on 02/12/2018 7:34:12 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: afraidfortherepublic

How about a summary or excerpt of what’s so ‘alarming’?


3 posted on 02/12/2018 7:35:34 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Hostage

Obama stole 2012 from Romney?


4 posted on 02/12/2018 7:38:58 AM PST by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service ... #ReleaseTheMemo)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

If this guy is such a heavyweight, how come he is confusing Carter Page with Christoper Steele? [About halfway through]

The editing on some of these web articles is atrocious.


5 posted on 02/12/2018 7:39:30 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Hostage
The son of a Congressman admitted to the staffer in the article that the Dems cheated in the 2012 election.

I don't consider that alarming. What is concerning is that people know this and do nothing.

6 posted on 02/12/2018 7:39:51 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: afraidfortherepublic
So DC Whispers is now complicit in covering up election fraud ?
7 posted on 02/12/2018 7:40:04 AM PST by onona
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To: Tench_Coxe

Yes...if they DIDN’T cheat...then that would be news!


8 posted on 02/12/2018 7:42:28 AM PST by gr8eman (Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
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To: Hostage

How about a summary or excerpt of what’s so ‘alarming’?

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It’s not that long. I’m sure you could get through it in a couple of minutes.


9 posted on 02/12/2018 7:43:15 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: rbg81

Thought the same thing. Seemed weird that he would indicate that the FBI took Page at his word when he meant Steele.


10 posted on 02/12/2018 7:43:22 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: onona

No one was more surprised at the 2012 outcome than Barack Obama ( or whatever his real name is ) himself.


11 posted on 02/12/2018 7:44:07 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: rbg81
don’t want to lose anyone in the weeds here but what the head of the FBI testified to before the Senate was that he basically took Carter Page at his word and ignored all of the other bias that was swirling around Page which would normally have made him someone clearly not worthy to be used as justification for making a FISA warrant request. There is really only one credible explanation for this – Carter Page was hired to create something that was used as justification to provide legal cover for what was a highly illegal surveillance program against the opposition candidate of a sitting President of the United States. James Comey attempted to explain this all away by basically saying, “We believed Carter Page because Carter Page assured us he was believable.” And please don’t forget that through all of this, James Comey and the other high-ranking FBI officials involved (some who still remain at the FBI) neglected to inform the FISA Court of the Clinton campaign’s direct involvement in the Trump Dossier, Fusion GPS, etc. (The Clinton campaign was Fusion GPS’s most important client at the time.)

Yep, Carter Page should be Christopher Steele in this entire paragraph. I stopped reading at this point.

12 posted on 02/12/2018 7:46:47 AM PST by NutsOnYew (If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.)
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To: BigEdLB

Yup


13 posted on 02/12/2018 7:49:28 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: rjsimmon

It is possible that it is the author making the mistake and not the article’s subject. Still, it really detracts from the narrative And, since no one is actually named, the whole thing smacks of fake news to me.


14 posted on 02/12/2018 7:49:34 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Just reading that little snippet convinced me that every one of these people is so brimming to the top with hubris that they should be taken out and shot.

Figuratively speaking, of course.


15 posted on 02/12/2018 7:51:22 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Tench_Coxe

Something tells me, before the congressional elections, the ability and carefree nature of stealing elections is going to be “fixed”.

Make more popcorn, make more rope...


16 posted on 02/12/2018 7:52:07 AM PST by Professional
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To: Hostage

Obama stole the 2012 election, which we all knew.


17 posted on 02/12/2018 7:53:28 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: rbg81

Definitely not out of the question. Without citing a specific source, that HUGE mistake calls the document into question. One of those “want it to be true” instead of “verifiably true”.


18 posted on 02/12/2018 7:54:05 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Tench_Coxe

This ‘confession’ doesn’t make sense. Allegedly there was cheating in a district for Obama and presumably for the dem congressional district. Yet, the cheating is described as having pissed off the dem who benefitted, WTH?


19 posted on 02/12/2018 7:54:53 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Reads like a cheap propaganda piece.


20 posted on 02/12/2018 7:55:36 AM PST by robel
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