Watergate is NOTHING compared to the bomb that's about to drop on DC establishment

NotPC wrote:

Nothing will come of any of it, no matter what is in the memo.

Trump will never be impeached.

He will not run in 2020.

Hillary and Bill C will never face any serious jail time or consequences for any of their actions.

Obama will never have to deal with anything from the memo, at best a few low level people will testify in a congressional investigation, but that's it.

The new president will take over in 2020 and the other side will cry and scream..... it's just how it is.

This is all most likely true except that the next person to occupy the White House won't be there until elected in 2024. Trump will be re-elected.

Plus, GOP voted for this surveillance laws the same day.

The House vote came the same day the Senate voted 65-34 to reauthorize a FISA provision that allows US spy agencies to conduct surveillance on foreign targets abroad for six years. The bill, already passed by the House, is now heading to the White House where President Donald Trump has said he will sign it into law.

Schiff said: “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 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. This may help carry White House water, but it is a deep disservice to our law enforcement professionals."

More Russkie trolling here on LRC.

Oops, misread Subject, and thought an *actual* bomb was going to hit DC.

Would have made my day wrote:

Oops, misread Subject, and thought an *actual* bomb was going to hit DC.

yes, and the heads-up showed up here on LRC...

Nice to see the astroturfers are still making a steady paycheck here. Good job, Comrade!

bicroundstick wrote:

Funny how those are nothingburgers but idiots like yourself like to think theyre remotely comparable to treason ala surveillance of a political rival.

But youre right. Drumpfff is gonna get impeached anyyyy day now, right? Boom. Dead to rights.

Where did I say anything regarding an impeachment of Trump? You're so wrapped up in defending the nitwit that you read far too much into a truism. The FISA issue is a diversionary tactic to assist in the court of public opinion. There's nothing stopping those who are interested from releasing the info involved in the #releasethememo chant. It's all a diversion.

MSM doesn’t cover fabricated stories. So of course they aren’t going to cover this.

Ronald Dump wrote:

The FISA issue is a diversionary tactic to assist in the court of public opinion. There's nothing stopping those who are interested from releasing the info involved in the #releasethememo chant. It's all a diversion.

This^ x10.

Funny how all the Trumpers keep calling the Russia investigation a nothingburger, but are convinced of a conspiracy to thwart the FISA process because FOX told them so.

Mueller time is approaching.

Country over party.

There's nothing stopping those who are interested from releasing the info involved in the #releasethememo chant

Some treat contempt of Congress rather seriously.

Keep dreaming boys wrote:

MSM doesn’t cover fabricated stories. So of course they aren’t going to cover this.

Are you being sarcastic, or are you simply stupid? I honestly can't tell. And yes, the MSM most definitely covers fake stories, and they cover the absolute living hell out of them. Until they're proven false, at which time they move on to the next one.

1. The New York Times' Paul Krugman claimed on the day of President Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover. Mr Trump frequently takes credit for what he calls a booming economy.

2. ABC News' Brian Ross CHOKES and sends markets in a downward spiral with false report. Ross incorrectly reported in early December last year that during the 2016 presidential campaign, the president had told Michael Flynn to make contact with Russian officials before the election. Ross later read a “clarification”, saying Mr Trump had actually asked Mr Flynn to make contact with Russia after the election, when he was president-elect.

3. CNN FALSELY reported that candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald J. Trump, Jr. had access to hacked documents from WikiLeaks. In December 2017, CNN corrected an exclusive report that said Mr Trump, when he was a candidate, and his son Donald Trump Jr. had received an email providing a web address and decryption key allowing them to access hacked documents from WikiLeaks before such documents were publicly available.

The story said the email was sent to the Trumps on September 4, 2016. It was corrected to say the email was actually sent on September 14, a day after WikiLeaks made the documents public.

4. TIME FALSELY reported that President Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office. Time said at the time: "On the evening of January 20 (2017) TIME White House correspondent Zeke Miller incorrectly reported that the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office. Zeke quickly issued a correction."

5. Washington Post FALSELY reported the President’s massive sold-out rally in Pensacola, Florida was empty. Dishonest reporter showed picture of empty arena HOURS before crowd started pouring in. The Washington Post reporter apologised for his “bad tweet” in early December after Mr Trump called him out by name. “It was a bad tweet on my personal account, not a story for Washington Post,” the reporter, Dave Weigel, tweeted. “I deleted it after like 20 minutes. Very fair to call me out.”

6. CNN FALSELY edited a video to make it appear President Trump defiantly overfed fish during a visit with the Japanese prime minister. Japanese prime minister actually led the way with the feeding. The Washington Post noted that CNN and others did "hyperventilate over President Trump’s perfectly fine fish-feeding" in Japan in November.

7. CNN FALSELY reported about Anthony Scaramucci’s meeting with a Russian, but retracted it due to a “significant breakdown in process.” Three CNN journalists, including the executive editor in charge of a new investigative unit, resigned in June 2017 after the publication of the Russia-related article that was retracted. The story reported that Congress was investigating a "Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials," and cited a single anonymous source.

8. Newsweek FALSELY reported that Polish First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda did not shake President Trump’s hand. In July 2017, Mr Trump shook hands with Polish President Andrzej Duda and then appeared set to shake hands with his wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, who went to shake Melania Trump's hand first. According to Duda, his wife shook the president's hand afterwards.

9. CNN FALSELY reported that former FBI Director James Comey would dispute President Trump’s claim that he was told he is not under investigation. CNN later corrected a story and headline in June 2017 to reflect that Comey did not directly dispute that Trump was told multiple times he was not under investigation.

10. The New York Times FALSELY claimed on the front page that the Trump administration had hidden a climate report. The Times issued a correction in August 2017: "While it was not widely publicized, the report was uploaded by the nonprofit Internet Archive in January."

11. "RUSSIA COLLUSION!" Russian collusion is perhaps the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people. THERE IS NO COLLUSION! There are currently four separate investigations into the Trump campaign's links with Russia.

(CNN, unsurprisingly, has no mention of this)

Fake News, Cuomo is all over it.

Abdoujaparov wrote:

In pictures for anyone who doesn't read good:

https://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/

Interesting that Russian bots are pushing for for the release of this document, too. It's almost as if they're coordinating with the House Republicans! This misinformation campaign couldn't possibly have anything to do with recent revelations that the FBI has been investigating whether the NRA has been serving as a laundromat for Russian campaign contributions to Republican politicians, could it?

Not the real Eric Holder wrote:

There's nothing stopping those who are interested from releasing the info involved in the #releasethememo chant

Some treat contempt of Congress rather seriously.

Trump could de-classify with the stroke of his pen.

nontrumper wrote:

Trump could de-classify with the stroke of his pen.

Yes, the executive branch is in TOTAL CONTROL of all declassification, including that of Congressional Reports.

This is why the House voted (in 2015) to declassify the redacted 28 pages of the 2002 9/11 Report.

And why the Senate voted to declassify CIA interrogations, etc.

anti-doofus poster wrote:

Yes, the executive branch is in TOTAL CONTROL of all declassification, including that of Congressional Reports.

Maybe we should ask an expert on handling classified info.

So you're saying that it's Obama's fault that HRC had all that classified info on her unsecured server, because he could just have declassified it all anyway?