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The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel’s top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer, according to two congressional officials briefed on the matter.
Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the committee’s Republican chairman, and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat, were so perturbed by the leak that they demanded a rare meeting with Speaker Paul D. Ryan last month to inform him of their findings. They used the meeting with Mr. Ryan to raise broader concerns about the direction of the House Intelligence Committee under its chairman, Representative Devin Nunes of California, the officials said.
To the senators, who are overseeing what is effectively the last bipartisan investigation on Capitol Hill into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, the leak was a serious breach of protocol and a partisan attack by one intelligence committee against the other.
The messages between Mr. Warner and Adam Waldman, a Washington lawyer, show that the senator tried for weeks to arrange a meeting with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who assembled a dossier of salacious claims about connections between Mr. Trump, his associates and Russia. The Senate committee has had difficulty making contact with Mr. Steele, whom it views as a key witness. And Mr. Waldman, who knew Mr. Steele, presented himself as a willing partner.
Those texts, which were sent via a secure messaging application, were then leaked to Fox News who quickly used them in an attempt to discredit Senator Warner.
And they even called in a little help to do so.
So to be clear, Devin Nunes revealed private correspondence between a sitting Senator and his source to a national media outlet, and then the president of the United States used that information to publicly attack a fellow Republican and attempt to discredit an investigation into his own wrongdoing.Wow! -Senator Mark Warner got caught having extensive contact with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch. Warner did not want a “paper trail” on a “private” meeting (in London) he requested with Steele of fraudulent Dossier fame. All tied into Crooked Hillary.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2018
And all of this happened only weeks after the House Republicans published that erroneous memo claiming that the FBI relied only on the dossier and some media reports in order to get a FISA warrant to put Carter Page under surveillance.
Which of course is also a lie.
We are so far down the rabbit hole now.
Just to be clear...
ReplyDeleteA Senator on the Intelligence Committee which is investigating the Russian interference in our last election was 'caught' trying to connect with one of the primary witnesses in the case???
I'm pretty sure that's called 'doing his job', not that Nunes is familiar with that concept.
Nunes is guilty as f*ck in the Russian conspiracy. So is Ryan. He has the power to remove but does nothing.
ReplyDeleteDevin Nunes Has Turned the House Intelligence Committee Into an Oppo Research Center
ReplyDelete...In other words, Ryan couldn’t care less. And needless to say, Nunes doesn’t care either since he’s the one who leaked the stuff in the first place. This is what the House Intelligence Committee has become: basically an R&D center for producing inane oppo research in service of Donald Trump’s latest conspiracy theories. Nice work, guys.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/03/devin-nunes-has-turned-the-house-intelligence-committee-into-an-oppo-research-center/
Millennials hate Trump, eager to vote in midterms: poll
ReplyDeleteIn a new report from Pew Research Center, Millennials are energized for the 2018 midterms and don’t like Trump
https://www.salon.com/2018/03/01/millennials-hate-trump-eager-to-vote-in-midterms-poll/
Good. They only have to keep up that enthusiasm for 8 more months.
DeleteRemember that Chris Christie refused to let Michael Flynn on the transition team, and it was *Jared and Ivanka* who pushed him out of the operation altogether in order to bring in Flynn, who"d been working with the Turks for a long time by then.
ReplyDeleteSome things are coming together.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/969655095788032002
Christie should be thanking his stars he was shut out of Trump's administration. Not that he isn't his own toxic. Wonder if he'll have the brains to say no if Trump asks him to take any of the upcoming vacant positions.
DeleteIt's not just Trump advisor Carl Icahn dumping steel stock like he knew Trump would be issuing a surprise announcement on steel—it's the man Manafort offered Trump updates to getting out of aluminum under a week before the surprise announcement on aluminum.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/969613188298870789
Add insider trading to the list of crimes
DeleteThat it's the GOP inquiring about this is wild as hell. The month delay in notifying Comey about the Weiner emails or getting Abedin/Weiner permission to view them or getting a search warrant kept the issue alive to blow up right before the election. The FBI's delay hurt CLINTON.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/969616303026851841
Whoa. Trump confidant dumped millions in steel-related stock last week, days before tariff announcement
https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/969600566300114946
5/ Russia and the UAE are two of the three largest aluminum importers to the U.S., so this hurts them. That said, I don't doubt that if you're a Russian aluminum magnate or a bauxite-slinger you could turn foreknowledge of the timing of this sudden announcement to your *benefit*.
Deletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/969451643032031232
30 years ago, even 10 years ago, Putin's speech today threatening to attack America in new ways with nuclear weapons would have been sensational news, demanding a response from our president. Today? Nothing. Amazing. Disappointing. And scary.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/McFaul/status/969463695263727616
Little donnie wouldn't want to hurt putins feelings would he, putin might call in all the loans.
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/ex-cia-director-worries-trump-holding-nuke-codes-petty-alec-baldwin-spat/
Delete"“If we have somebody in the Oval Office who is unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical, we really have rough waters ahead. And I do think it is going to get more painful, a bit worse before it gets better. ”
“Your former colleague, James Clapper thought he was too unstable, to pickup on a word you used, to possess the nuclear codes,” Wallace reminded. “Do you agree with that?”
“When I hear what Vladimir Putin was saying about the nuclear capabilities he has, the President of the United States is tweeting about Alec Baldwin this morning, I mean, where is your sense of priorities?” Brennan asked. “And so I think a lot of Americans are looking at what’s happening with a sense of — this is surreal.”"
Being the sarcastic, childish antagonist that I am, I would have responded "Hey, Vlad, I see you finally got your DVD copy of War Games. Wasn't Matthew Broderick awesome?"
Delete"...We are so far down the rabbit hole now."
ReplyDeleteThere is no longer a rabbit hole. It has become an open bit mine.
open pit mine with tons of toxic waste.
DeleteOT?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.salon.com/2018/03/02/americans-arent-being-bamboozled-by-bonuses-the-gop-tax-law-is-a-flop/
" as predicted, much of the windfall is already ending up in the pockets of the wealthy — not workers. Warren Buffett announced that Berkshire Hathaway received a $29,000,000,000 (that's billion) windfall from the tax cut."
"T]he vast majority of the billions of dollars in planned share purchases will benefit the richest 10 percent of American households, who own 84 percent of all stocks. The top 1 percent of households own about 40 percent of all stocks.
Of course, the individual tax cuts will expire in 2025, while the business cuts are permanent."
This is what happens when corrupt elected officials like David Nunes have a propaganda outlet like Fox News.
ReplyDeleteWarner was only doing his job on the committee and he made no secret of it.
ReplyDeleteNunes needs to go immediately. Him and Rohrbacher are essentially working for the Russians whether intentionally or not. They are both obstructionists in their own way.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-reportedly-leaked-democratic-225425592.html
"Warner disclosed to his committee months before the leak that he had reached out last year to lobbyist Adam Waldman, who runs a firm that worked with a Russian oligarch named Oleg Deripaska in 2009 and 2010. Warner hoped Waldman could connect him with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the now infamous dossier that, among other things, alleges a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
The leaked communication also appears to fall in line with Warner’s duties on the intelligence committee. Nevertheless, Trump seized on the shell of a controversy to attempt to discredit the investigations into the role Russia played in influencing the 2016 election.
Both the timing of the Fox News report and markings on the documents they published indicated to the Senate committee that Republicans on the House committee were behind the leak, the sources told the Times.
The documents containing the texts were leaked just days after one of Nunes’ staff members asked the Senate committee to share copies of the exchange with the House committee, one source said. Additionally, neither the documents sent to the House committee nor the ones published by Fox News contained page numbers, while the original copy possessed by the Senate committee did. "
Look for a staffer that has just gone to see "The Post."