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(Adam Silverman is a former military advisor who is expert in these matters - always worth reading at the Balloon Juice blog on intelligence and security.)
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David Kris, the former Assistant Attorney General for National Security, had this to say:
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Also, from Joyce Vance, a former US Attorney, and Julie Zebrak, formerly of both the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasurys Financial Crimes Enforcement Office.
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Heres what I think is going to happen: the selectively unclassified and unredacted material will be released. Like every previous one of these attempts by either the President and/or his allies like Congressman Nunes, it will quickly be picked apart and make them look silly. Even more important, as was the case a couple of weeks ago regarding what Bruce Ohrs actual work for the DOJ was about, the US intelligence community will selectively leak in order to knock this selective declassification back. And at the end of the day all that will have happened is the President and his allies in Congress like Congressman Nunes will have simply further damaged and weakened the Department of Justice, the FBI, and other parts of the intelligence community in order to protect their own political and/or legal fortunes.
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2018/09/17/the-lajes-protocol-iv-the-president-the-house-permanent-select-committee-on-intelligence-and-the-politicization-of-the-doj/
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)All together these steady drips and chips at USA strength, influence, economic well being, and national security constitute The Great Weakening (R) so long dreamed of by Dirty Donny*s intimate cronies, the Evil Empire** of russia. As well documented, russia has long planned to destroy American democracy. And as the overwhelming body of evidence makes clear, republicans have gone submissive and are meekly, greedily & skankily cooperating in this heinous Great Weakening of America. Tragic and disgusting betrayal.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
** per ronald freaking reagan (R)
kentuck
(111,097 posts)To de-classify the Russian information that has been gathered.
It is traitorous.