Posted on 02/18/2017 5:07:32 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
...It was also secretive even by traditional standards: Although Comey was photographed leaving the meeting, committee members wouldn’t admit that he’d been there. And it seemed as though the briefing was urgent, with senators delaying their departure during a weekend recess to hear what Comey had to say.
The Senate Intel Committee considers all manner of intelligence matters so in theory the briefing could have been about anything. Most recently, though, the Committee’s been in the news because it’s leading the congressional investigation into Russian interference in last year’s presidential campaign. Three days ago, after Mike Flynn resigned, Mitch McConnell said he thought it was “highly likely” that the Committee would include Flynn’s interactions with the Russian ambassador as part of its broader inquiry. And now suddenly Comey’s on the Hill, amid unusual secrecy, addressing them in what seems to have been an especially important briefing.
Still, we need more than that to suspect that the briefing was about Flynn, Russia, and/or Trump campaign advisors’ “constant communications” with Russian officials during the campaign. Which … is where Marco Rubio comes in:
"I am now very confident Senate Intel Comm I serve on will conduct thorough bipartisan investigation of #Putin interference and influence"
The word “now” strongly suggests that something that just came to light has convinced him and the rest of the Committee to treat the Russia matter even more gravely than they had before. The word “bipartisan” is significant too, as Democrats were of course already gung ho to investigate. Rubio seems to be suggesting that whatever Comey told them was so serious that Republicans would be eager to get to the bottom of it too.
Has part or all of Comey’s information leaked to the media, with stories already in the works about the mysterious allegations? It didn’t occur to me at the time that there was anything more to Trump’s tweet yesterday about the media as “enemies of the people” than the president being in one of his peevish moods, but David Frum had some interesting speculation about the possible cause of that peevishness:
"Decoded: one or more of NYT, CNN or NBCNews has a very very damaging story in the pipeline …"
That’s just a theory, but if something big is about to drop, the papers may well have already contacted the White House for comment about it, alerting Trump that it’s coming and ticking him off. Could be that Frum’s wrong, of course, or it could be that he’s right but the big scoop has nothing to do with what Comey told the Intelligence Committee. We’ll probably know this week.
Update: Lo and behold, here’s Reuters with a new story this afternoon claiming that Comey’s FBI is running no fewer than three separate investigations into Russian hacking during the campaign. “This counterintelligence inquiry includes but is not limited to examination of financial transactions by Russian individuals and companies who are believed to have links to Trump associates. The transactions under scrutiny involve investments by Russians in overseas entities that appear to have been undertaken through middlemen and front companies, two people briefed on the probe said.”
COMEY is dropping the bomb on BRENNAN..... Flynn leaker
aside from that ...... WHY IS COMEY STILL HEADING THE FBI.....
get rid of the pos
Rubio declared war on Russia back during the primaries. He’s a sock puppet of McCain and Lindsey Graham, he certainly didn’t require any new information to get him to join the Democrats in howling that the Russians stole the election for Trump.
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And where exactly has that information come from?
Who has released a transcript of the Flynn/Russian conversation?
There was never just one transcript although each one purported to be unique. My guess is several were circulated. Canaries have unique songs.
Alright if its the worst does Pence believe in most/any of Trumps agenda? Or is it likely he would be taken out too?
Sniff.
Sniff?
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Trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind......
Yes, this seems to indicate that it hurts the Democrats, since they are not leaking. Fascinating.
Be back bump
Perhaps.
I think Trump is smarter than all of them combined, though.
Rubio had better not turn his back on our President.
A transcription being offered as evidence would be an exact copy of what was said.
An official transcript hasn’t been publicly released AFAIK.
‘Multiple copies each claiming to be unique’ demonstrates that this stuff is nothing more than rumors being circulated for who knows whose benefit.
I don’t know, we have not been able to relax since the election it’s been one thing after another. Trump ripped the press HARD 2 days in a row then did this pep rally. It does seem like maybe he was rallying support. Could this be why?
“Alright if its the worst does Pence believe in most/any of Trumps agenda? Or is it likely he would be taken out too?”
Trump publicly said that he asked for Flynn’s resignation. Not because of anything Flynn said to the Russian, but because he felt Flynn had misled Pence.
It was Trump’s call whether to stay with Flynn or to replace him. I’m not sure how that equates to “being taken out”.
What l meant was if they manage to take out Trump with all this will Pence keep the agenda alive.
Will do, thanks.
Thank you for your comment. It was a canary trap designed as I describe. Multiple stories emerged because multiple fabricated transcripts were distributed. As the President said the news was fake but the leaks were real.
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