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My expected reaction from Democrats on the memo:

WookieMan says

Trump was the non-politician. Guess what, he's now a politician. Again, I hate them all. The power corrupts.

Agreed. 2 years ago I could unequivocally say Hillary was the absolute worst. I hated her so much I thought NO ONE could come close as far as how much I could despise them.

I was wrong. It's now Trump. I honestly would wipe away all the stock market gains I got if I never had to see his face again.

anon_db202 says

Really?

Where was that posted?

https://www.onenewspage.com/n/Front+Page/75inlgbar/Paul-Ryan-Warns-Republicans-To-Be-Cautious-Of.htm
"House Speaker Paul Ryan met with Republicans on Tuesday and told them to avoid overstating the findings that are contained in a classified House intelligence committee memo that claims misconduct on part of the FBI investigators that are involved in investigating Trump campaign contacts with Russia, according to Politico. The group met in a closed-door meeting at the Capitol where Ryan also called on lawmakers not to directly correlate the findings of the memo with the ongoing probe being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Ryan was firm with members present not to oversell the memo and keep it separate from Mueller's probe..."

Ryan hasn't seen it, how ever Gowdy has and says there's going to be some red asses and red faces.
More FBI resignations are expected later this week, and a hasty resolution of the Russian investigation.

anon_510fd says

I was wrong. It's now Trump. I honestly would wipe away all the stock market gains I got if I never had to see his face again.

Are you European or something? No true American says take away my stock gains. We are greedy capitalist whether being lead by HRC or DT. This is indisputable.

anon_8f378 says

you see Rep. Congressmen walking back their comments about how "shocking" and "explosive" it's going to be.

anon_8f378 says

House Speaker Paul Ryan met with Republicans on Tuesday and told them to avoid overstating the findings that are contained in a classified House intelligence committee memo

So, you think those two statements mean the same thing?

Got any direct quotes from the congressmen that made the original statements, where they walked them back, not just the suggestion from Ryan to "avoid overstating"?

anon_8f378 says

If Trump wants the memo released, why doesn't he do so?

You might get your wish tonight:

Larry Schweikart‏ @LarrySchweikart

BREAKING: According to CNN Trump has ordered the Memo to be released immediately after the SOTU.

Here come the nukes.
10:51 AM - 30 Jan 2018

Sniper says

anon_8f378 says

If Trump wants the memo released, why doesn't he do so?

You might get your wish tonight:

Larry Schweikart‏ @LarrySchweikart

BREAKING: According to CNN Trump has ordered the Memo to be released immediately after the SOTU.

Here come the nukes.
10:51 AM - 30 Jan 2018

#FakeNews

President Trump hasn’t even seen the memo yet. His handlers don’t trust him with it lol

errc says

President Trump hasn’t even seen the memo yet.

Oh really? I've seen it!

FBI officials review surveillance memo, could not cite 'any factual inaccuracies'.

Fox News confirms two senior FBI officials reviewed the Republican memo alleging surveillance abuses during the presidential campaign and could not find any factual inaccuracies; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports.

Two senior FBI officials have now reviewed a controversial Republican staff memo alleging abuses of government surveillance programs during the 2016 presidential campaign, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News – adding that the officials “could not point to any factual inaccuracies.”

The two officials – one from the bureau’s counterintelligence division and the other from the legal division – followed up after an initial review of the memo during a rare Sunday trip to Capitol Hill by FBI Director Christopher Wray.

After the contentious committee vote Monday night, the source confirmed that House staffers physically took the memo over to the White House for the president.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/30/fbi-officials-review-surveillance-memo-could-not-cite-any-factual-inaccuracies-source.html
I wonder if Schiff will need to eat his words below?

But the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, characterized the memo as misleading and inaccurate. The committee, Schiff explained, had voted Thursday along party lines "to grant House Members access to a profoundly misleading set of talking points drafted by Republican staff attacking the FBI and its handling of the investigation."

"Rife with factual inaccuracies and referencing highly classified materials that most of Republican Intelligence Committee members were forced to acknowledge they had never read, this is meant only to give Republican House members a distorted view of the FBI," Schiff's statement said. "This may help carry White House water, but it is a deep disservice to our law enforcement professionals."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-call-for-release-of-memo-on-surveillance-abuses/

Just before President Trump headed to the Capitol for last night's "State of the Union", the Washington Post reported that top Justice Department officials made a last-ditch plea on Monday to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly about the dangers of publicly releasing the memo.

Shortly before the House Intelligence Committee voted to make the document public, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein warned Kelly that the four-page memo prepared by House Republicans could jeopardize classified information and implored the president to reconsider his support for making it public.

But those pleas from Rosenstein - who isn't exactly the West Wing's favorite lawman, and whose name apparently appears in the memo - have apparently fallen on deaf ears.

Last night, President Trump promised a lawmaker that the memo would "100%" be released now that the House Intel Committee has voted to approve its release.

And during a Fox News Radio interview with Brian Kilmeade, Chief of Staff John Kelly added that the memo would be publicly released "pretty quick."

"I'll let all the experts decide that when it's released. This president wants everything out so the American people can make up their own minds," he said.

While the reports specific contents are not yet known, last week we reported the four-page "FISA memo" alleges egregious surveillance abuses by the FBI, DOJ and Obama administration, specifically now-former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former Director James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-31/john-kelly-confirms-hes-seen-memo-and-it-will-be-released-pretty-quick

After the memo is released:

anonymous says

seriously this is the best that can be put on this forum ?

No, we needs tons more TDS threads, now there's some quality posts!!

The suspense is killing me!

This is it. They’re finally going to nab Hillary

After head aching over her for the last decade for tens of thousands of hours, and using her as a distraction from the Trump family criminal enterprise, and pretty much every other anti-American thing the Republicans have done, she will finally get her comeuppance. Good

The question is what the fuck will those poor ninnies worry about after Hillary is locked up? It’s been the bread n butter distraction du jour since as long as i can remember, will they know anything else or will they still blame everything on her all the time while carefully being distracted by the Republicans fucking them raw?

Mccabe resigns weeks before he can access a pension but the memo is a nothing burger. Also, the unscheduled solar eclipse is nothing to be worried about, said NASA officials

TwoScoopsPlissken says

Mccabe resigns weeks before he can access a pension but the memo is a nothing burger. Also, the unscheduled solar eclipse is nothing to be worried about, said NASA officials

OK so tell us what resigning does to help him w.r.t. the memo. Does resigning grant him some sort of immunity?

@zzyzzx did anything happen?

No?

Then WTF are you saying?

anon_8f378 says

TwoScoopsPlissken says

Mccabe resigns weeks before he can access a pension but the memo is a nothing burger. Also, the unscheduled solar eclipse is nothing to be worried about, said NASA officials

OK so tell us what resigning does to help him w.r.t. the memo. Does resigning grant him some sort of immunity?

Except, he didn't resign, he was told to leave, big difference. He never came into the office on Monday to collect his belongings.

There's more to come, let's see where McCabe travels to.

Reuters quoted Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intel Committee, who believes the contents of the four-page memo about allegedly egregious FBI abuses of FISA set for public release in the next several days, could lead to the firing of Special Counsel Bob Mueller, or more likely Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein.

In response to the FBI's "rare public statement" claiming the contents of the memo distort the truth, House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes, Schiff's Republican counterpart and primary antagonist on the committee, has responded with his own statement dismissing the FBI's "spurious objections."

The question on everybody's mind is whether the memo will prove that the FBI improperly relied on the Steele dossier to obtain s FISA Court warrant on Carter Page. One Twitter user pointed out that Nunes' statement comes close to confirming that this is indeed the truth.


https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-31/game-over-adam-schiff-says-memo-could-lead-firings-mueller-rosenstein

Enough just release it, I don't care who or how many heads roll.

Hmmm, if Flynn's 100% guilty, and it's a slam dunk, why agree to pospone the sentencing?????

Robert Mueller Requests Postponement of General Mike Flynn Sentencing.

Against a newly discovered likelihood the Robert Mueller investigation began under false pretenses; and against the backdrop that FBI surveillance and wiretaps were obtained through materially (intentionally) false representations to the FISA court; and against the backdrop the original Flynn plea judge (Contrereas) was also the approving FISA judge; and that judge ‘was summarily recused’ from the case; and against increasing evidence that Mike Flynn was set up by a terminal animus, and politically-motivated investigative rogue unit, operating within the FBI; and against surfacing IG Horowitz evidence that FBI investigators manipulated (lied on) their FD-302 interrogation documents; and understanding those falsified 302’s were used in the Mueller/Flynn charging document…

…Special Counsel Robert Mueller now asks for postponement of sentencing:


Well, then the underlying evidence presented to the initial judge, Ruben Contreras, in the December 1st plea hearing, were materially misrepresented.

With the IG exposing falsified and manipulative investigative practices by the FBI, Mueller would have no alternative but to throw the brakes on. This whole thing is turning into a sh*t-show of epic proportions.

anon_8f378 says

OK so tell us what resigning does to help him w.r.t. the memo. Does resigning grant him some sort of immunity?

No clue, but if it was nothing to do with him - or didn't lead to other charges or at least admin punishment, why ditch his own pension within weeks of attainment?

Are the Dems nervous???

FISA Fireworks: Pelosi Demands "Removal" Of Nunes From Intel Committee.

Hours after Democrat Adam Schiff attempted to distract from the imminent release of what is likely over-hyped to be a very damaging memo , by claiming "material" changes were made to the memo (which consisted of "grammatical fixes,") Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has written a sternly-worded letter to Speaker Ryan demanding Nunes be removed from his position as Chair of the House Intelligence Committee...

...."Congressman Nunes' deliberately dishonest actions make him unfit to serve as Chairman, and he must be removed immediately from this position...The integrity of the House is at stake. We look forward to your immediate action on this subject."

All of this comes after Pelosi's grandstanding at Trump's SOTU attempting to bring the narrative back to Russia-collusion narrative that has so clearly imploded...


https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-01/fisa-fireworks-pelosi-demands-removal-nunes-intel-committee

Trump To Sign Off On Nunes Memo; Send To Congress By Tomorrow.

Update 1120ET: Minutes after Pelosi's tantrum, Bloomberg reports that The White House plans to sign off on the memo's release today and send it back to Congress with a declaration that is has been declassified.

The committee would then release the memo.

The release is likely to come Friday morning, Fox News is told.


https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-01/republican-memo-likely-be-released-thursday

What is Trump waiting for? If he wants it released, then do it.

We need to start sending Trump tweets! Release the memo!!

anon_8f378 says

What is Trump waiting for?

When a cat’s prey is helpless, they often like to toy with it a while, just because.

Quigley says

anon_8f378 says

What is Trump waiting for?

When a cat’s prey is helpless, they often like to toy with it a while, just because.

#MAGA

How many people will die of a drug overdose while ol Trump makes good use of his time here?

Will this be a bigger flop than the FakeNews awards?

Ever wonder why the hive of rightwits never asked for Bush to be put in Prison?

I mean, most of the rightwits I’ve seen are tens of thousands of hours invested into their cute little “Lock her Up!” Silliness, you’d think somewhere along the line, some of them might wonder wtf are we even doing anymore?

Quigley says

When a cat’s prey is helpless, they often like to toy with it a while, just because.

We shall see. Why did Nunes have to change the memo when he sent it to Trump?

My personal guess is that the reason he is delaying is that he's not going to release it at all and claim that he's going to abide by the FBI/DOJ. That way he can keep folks like those on this thread hyped up as opposed to them realizing the memo is a bunch of Trumped up nonsense.

Has the memo been released yet?

anon_8f378 says

Why did Nunes have to change the memo when he sent it to Trump?

Jacob Wohl
‏Verified account @JacobAWohl
14m14 minutes ago

JUST IN: Fox News confirms that President Trump will release Nunes Memo with minor technical edits. The minor technical edits to the Memo were made at the request of the FBI. Don't believe Adam Schiff's BS that this is a bait and switch.

anonymous says

completely ignore all the damage this administration is pulling while no one is looking.

Like what?

Got some examples?

Sniper says

JUST IN: Fox News confirms that President Trump will release Nunes Memo with minor technical edits. The minor technical edits to the Memo were made at the request of the FBI. Don't believe Adam Schiff's BS that this is a bait and switch.

Well, if FOX news said it, it must be true.

They do this all the time anyway.

zzyzzx says

My expected reaction from Democrats on the memo:

I don't think I've posted this before, has the memo been released?

And for fucks sake, I thought 2017 was the year of the memo. We can't have back to back memo years. It's just not possible. I'm going to whip up a quick memo myself right now so I can jump on the bandwagon.

WookieMan says

I'm going to whip up a quick memo myself right now so I can jump on the bandwagon.

I actually went a step further after thinking about it. I just impregnated my wife. Memo will be born Nov. 1st 2018.

Shoot me your emails so I can get you guys the evite to the baby shower. My one request is that you RSVP by June 9th, just because.