#house intelligence

Avoid The Truth at All Costs

This post is about the newly released transcripts by the House Intelligence Committee. In this post I want to focus on how Republican law makes worked to cover Trump’s tracks and how conservative media grossly misinforms the public. If you have any specific questions about what is contained in the transcripts, please send me an ask. 

I’ve linked the press release on the transcripts by Fox News above. It’s very brief and uninformative. Other than a quote by Adam Schiff, only one sentence mentions the actual contents of the transcripts. Whether Rep or Dem, very few people will gander at the transcripts themselves, and I don’t really blame anyone for that. That’s why we have journalists, right? But those who are convinced that Fox is a trustworthy source are pretty much being told “there’s nothing to see here.” People are acting on the presumption that if there was anything significant to report that Fox employees would have the integrity to tell them. Therefore, they will write off anything said by liberals. 

The technique that Fox News is using if very purposeful. There is no way you could read through these transcripts and not see anything of controversy that is worth reporting. So, instead of reporting the contents they simply refer to public comments already made that assures the public of no collusion. This is not small bias, this is very thoughtful avoidance of facts to push a desired belief. 

Republican Lawmakers Are Twice as Bad

The transcripts that were released are the text print outs of some 60 different interviews held by the House Intelligence Committee while investigating Russia. This also includes summary reports by the House Republicans and House Democrats. The information is not exactly new, because we received the findings from these interviews in the way of the Mueller Report(read my summary here). After doing some browsing for key highlights, I realized that all of these documents collectively show what was reported in the Mueller Report, but back it up with some extra detail. For anyone who read the Mueller Report, you’ll find a little more depth and detail in these transcripts. I still have a lot more exploring to do. 

However, it’s clear these documents only back up what was in the Mueller report. This is chiefly that the Russians made a cyber attack on our nation, and then approached the Trump campaign to offer a quid pro quo deal from their attack, and the Trump campaign welcomed, sought after, and took this help in all it’s forms. 

It was clear from public statements and actions of the House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee that they refused to acknowledge any wrong doing by Trump’s campaign and never supported in the purpose of the investigation. What the Minority Report shows it that House Republicans refused to fully investigate matters or seek answers to questions on virtually every issue. 

If you had read my summary of the Mueller Report in the past, I mentioned that the main reason the report did not definitively determine collusion to be proven was that the investigation was incomplete and had not discovered the answers to many details. 

Take the Trump Tower for example. This is something most people should have some recollection of. Don Jr. admits that the purpose of the meeting was to receive harmful information about Hillary Clinton. He also admits that the Russians lobbied for the removal of key sanctions. He admits that he would not have taken the meetings if he did not believe he was going to receive dirt on Hillary. The Majority Report downplays the significance of this meeting, and the Minority accuses the Majority of never trying to answer the larger questions, such as: What dirt did Russia have? Why are they so interested in Trump and his admin? What did Russia want out of this relationship? 

While investigating George Papadopoulos, House Republicans claimed that the emails connected to his attempts to link Trump and Russia were not verified, but they refused to take the next step in interviewing/investigating ancillary characters which Papadopoulos was in contact with. Basically, they discovered Papadopoulos made contact with a Russian agent about linking the Trump admin and the Kremlin, but they refused to explore the links and witnesses to find out how far his actions went or to confirm they even happened. 

Russians also made contact with the Trump admin through the NRA, this is related to the Butina scandal in the news. Unfortunately, the House Reps refused to dig deeper into the how, why, and who of Russia’s back channel through the NRA. 

To this date, for every major plot point we know about, there are many questions left unanswered and details unconfirmed. This is directly because the Intelligence Committee regularly ended it’s interest in matters at the surface level. That is a fact that’s bore out by the actions on record and public statements through out the investigation, which culminates in the Minority report as a refusal to act by the Reps.   

Only this time, the call is coming from inside the White House.

This story is weird. It’s going to get weirder. If we don’t brace ourselves, then it’s going to work, again. If we do get a grip on it, we really might be able to make this a turning point against the regime. So even if you don’t usually care about the international intrigue, you do need to understand what’s going on with Trump, Ukraine, and the whistleblower.

Since when does the White House dictate whether a Congressional Hearing is scheduled and Who Can or Cannot Testify?!

The house intelligence committee has finally been allowed to release their transcripts. This means we can now directly read their files and memos they kept during the Russia investigation. I’ll make a post about what can be learned after I sift through it. 

Last week two very important classified meetings were held by the Dept. of Justice. One meeting was attended by Rep. Trey Gowdy, Speaker Paul Ryan, Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Devin Nunes, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, Rod Rosenstein, and Chris Wray. The second meeting was with the “Gang of Eight,” the leaders of both parties from both chambers, as well as the heads of the intelligence committees. 

These meetings were actually to discuss the validity of President Trump’s conspiracy theory claims. Some officials see these meetings as a way to humor the President and keep him from taking further action on his accusations. From the topic of these meetings we can deduce that they will be discussing in detail facts about the early stages of the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s campaign and the evidence surrounding the investigation. They would likely be discussing or mentioning other key details of evidence in the Russia investigation. That is why this meeting was classified.

Shockingly two people whom work Trump appeared at both meetings when they had absolutely no business attending. Those two people were Trump’s defense attorney Emmet Flood and Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly! They were not allowed to stay for the meetings, but tried to sit in on both. They stated that the President wanted to develop more openness around the investigation.

First, this meeting was classified so that alone bars these men from being there. It’s hard to view their appearance in any other light then them trying to learn what information the DOJ and FBI have against Donald Trump so they can destroy evidence, change their stories, and prepare to lie. That is unthinkably corrupt and immoral.

Think there is another explanation for them being there? Think again because we can thank Rudy Giuliani for clarifying their intentions, as he told politico, “We want to see how the briefing went to today and how much we learned from it. If we learned a good deal from it, it will shorten that whole process considerably.” He is literally saying they wanted to gain classified information, which they should not have. When he says “shorten the whole process” he means that if they know what evidence they are facing they will be better prepared to lie and get their stories straight before going into court.

Nunes is a seriously dangerous man ... he’ll try to “Normalize” any and all information and sweep under the rug any incriminating evidence.

New video posted on: https://dailyvideovault.com/day-4-part-1-adam-schiffs-opening-statement/

Day 4, Part 1: Adam Schiff's opening statement

Schiff: Ryan Leaving Because Washington Is In ‘Complete Shambles’

USA Paper: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said early Thursday that Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is leaving Congress in part because GOP leadership has reduced Washington to “shambles.”

“I think part of the reason he’s leaving is the way the GOP has run Washington over the last couple over the years, it’s in complete shambles,” Schiff said on CNN’s “New Day.”

The ranking Democrat on the House…