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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts) Sat Feb 24, 2018, 10:35 PM Feb 2018

Nunes memo fake; Russia scandal very real

By Jonathan Chait
February 24, 2018
6:26 pm

... a month ago, conservatives rose up in coordinated demands to “release the memo.” The memo, supposedly, contained breathtaking evidence of corruption in the Justice Department ... Fox .. and .. Republicans insisted the memo gave .. Trump .. cause .. to fire .. Rosenstein and rein in .. Mueller.

Republicans managed to delay the publication of a rebuttal memo by .. Democrats for .. weeks. The motivation .. is obvious. The Democratic memo lays waste to every important accusation made by .. Nunes ...

Did the Justice Department rely on the Christopher Steele memo in order to surveil Carter Page? No ...

More importantly, when applying for permits to surveil Carter Page, the DOJ did not hide Steele’s political motivations ...

... One passage, meant to be blacked out, reveals that no fewer than four Trump-linked figures were under investigation for covert ties to Russian intelligence ...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/the-nunes-memo-is-fake-and-the-russia-scandal-is-very-real.html

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Nunes memo fake; Russia scandal very real (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2018 OP

Why is Nunes not under arrest or at least censure, obstruction of justice and misleading Congress? Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #1

FOX and the republican congress seem to be Russian owned. nt jrthin Feb 2018 #2

Went to Fox website to see their slanted coverage. They have a title link "See the FiSA memo", Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #3

They're rented. dchill Feb 2018 #4

Because Paul Ryan in the rest of the Repugnants fully supported cstanleytech Feb 2018 #5

Up to their eyeballs... czarjak Feb 2018 #6

local news abc affiliate Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #7

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. Why is Nunes not under arrest or at least censure, obstruction of justice and misleading Congress?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 10:54 PM

Feb 2018

Can Fox be allowed to defend and get away with defending any crime committed by their party?

jrthin

(4,836 posts)

2. FOX and the republican congress seem to be Russian owned. nt

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 10:58 PM

Feb 2018

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. Went to Fox website to see their slanted coverage. They have a title link "See the FiSA memo",

Reply to jrthin (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 11:01 PM

Feb 2018

but it links to the February 2 Nunes memo, not the Schiff memo! I am not making that up. They do not want their brainwashed zombies to fry their little minds in the truth.

Fuckers are evil.

dchill

(38,502 posts)

4. They're rented.

Reply to jrthin (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 11:18 PM

Feb 2018

cstanleytech

(26,293 posts)

5. Because Paul Ryan in the rest of the Repugnants fully supported

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 11:52 PM

Feb 2018

this attack on the FBI.
Why? My guess is because some of them are in it up to their necks with the Russians and they're trying to avoid prison time.

czarjak

(11,278 posts)

6. Up to their eyeballs...

Reply to cstanleytech (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 24, 2018, 11:56 PM

Feb 2018

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,348 posts)

7. local news abc affiliate

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Feb 25, 2018, 12:11 AM

Feb 2018

The local news broadcast just mentioned the Democratic party memo, with a photo of the blacked out parts, then a photo of Adam Schiff, then immediately featured Nunes' yapping about it on some Fox thing.

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