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Eugene

(61,953 posts)
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 10:20 PM Feb 2018

House Democrats to 'clean up' Trump-Russia memo in bid for release

Source: Associated Press

House Democrats to 'clean up' Trump-Russia memo in bid for release

Associated Press
Sun 11 Feb 2018 20.14 GMT

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are prepared to black out parts of their memo about the FBI’s Russia investigation to ensure there is no harmful spilling of secrets, then try again to get Donald Trump to let it come out.

A White House aide said Sunday he was confident it would be released once Democrats “clean it up”.

That possible nudge toward progress came as both sides traded recriminations over the matter.

Representative Adam Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Trump was putting his personal interest above the country’s in blocking a memo that “completely undermines his claim of vindication” in special counsel Robert Mueller’s continuing investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign’s relationship with Russian interests and Russia’s meddling in the election. “The president doesn’t want the public to see the underlying facts,” Schiff said on CBS’s Face the Nation.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/11/house-democrats-to-clean-up-trump-russia-memo-in-bid-for-release
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regnaD kciN

(26,045 posts)
8. No question in my mind...
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 10:55 PM
Feb 2018

We'll "redact" it, then Trump will decide it isn't good enough and send it back once more. We do it again, same result. This will go on as long as it takes until we give up. Meanwhile, Republicans will keep up a drumbeat of how our memo (unlike theirs) is "very political," "biased," and "ridiculous," so that, even if someone gets tired of this charade and leaks it, the public will be preconditioned to dismiss it, and the media (wanting to appear "even-handed" ) will be sure to repeat every Trumpista talking-point every time anything about it is reported on.

rzemanfl

(29,570 posts)
3. Just leak the thing or read it into the record. Blacking stuff out just encourages Drumpf.
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 10:34 PM
Feb 2018

He doesn't like to read.

 

TheyAreDeplorble

(27 posts)
4. I would not put much faith in the Democrats actually accomplishing anything in this battle.
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 10:36 PM
Feb 2018

Remember, this is the party that even when it did have some power in government, did not even want a public option alternative in the ACA.

Their lack of courage when they could have done something (on any issue) does not bode well for battles today when they HAVE NO POWER.

When the enemy ignores the rules of the system, it is idiocy to try and fight them within that system.

I thought we liberals were supposed to be the creative ones.

AJT

(5,240 posts)
6. Why would they do this? They just validated 45s objections.
Sun Feb 11, 2018, 10:51 PM
Feb 2018

All he has to do is say that the dems were willing to release classified information and don't deserve another chance.

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