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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell Threatened to Frame Pre-Election Intelligence About Russians as a Partisan Attack
https://www.newsandguts.com/link/salon-new-book-mcconnell-threatened-frame-pre-election-intelligence-russians-partisan-attack/ThenCIA Director John Brennan wanted McConnells signoff on a bipartisan warning about Russia. McConnell had his own agenda.
Whose side was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on when he found out Russia was interfering with the 2016 election? Author Greg Miller alleges that when McConnell learned about Russian interference he said instead of condemning Russia, hed condemn the Obama Administration
When Sen. Mitch McConnell was told by thenCIA Director John Brennan before the 2016 election that Vladimir Putin and Russia were attempting to interfere with the goal of assisting Donald Trump, McConnells response took him aback, according to Greg Miller, a Washington Post reporter who has just released a book about Putin, Trump, and the election. The majority leader said he wouldnt sign on to any condemnation of Russias actions and that if the administration went public with the intelligence, McConnell would in turn call out Brennan as a partisan intervening on behalf of Hillary Clinton, Miller colorfully revealed in a CNN interview Tuesday.
While the broad outlines of this story have been known for a long time, Millers account adds a new level of detail to McConnells political machinations in the run-up to the election. In a Frontline documentary from November, Miller said that the Obama administration was so concerned about politicizing intelligence that aides didnt want Obama himself to publicly denounce the Russians without the support and buy-in of leaders in Congressincluding Republicans.
Jeh Johnson, the secretary of homeland security for the last four years of the Obama administration, describes meetings between top intelligence officials and congressional leadership as well as the heads and ranking members of the intelligence and foreign affairs committees in which they told the lawmakers what the intelligence community knew about Russias efforts to influence the election. McConnell expressed skepticism, Frontline reported, and warned that he would not join an effort to publicly challenge Putin.
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McConnell Threatened to Frame Pre-Election Intelligence About Russians as a Partisan Attack (Original Post)
G_j
Oct 2018
OP
Did anyone capture the video of McConnell the moment he realized that the jig was up?
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2018
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BSdetect
(8,999 posts)1. They should have called his bluff. It would not have helped the gop.
Fucking stand up to them at all times.
G_j
(40,370 posts)3. Eye opening interview here,
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/01/653193096/author-of-the-apprentice-talks-of-getting-trolled-and-sourcing-stories
Reportedly, Brennan and Mitch got in shouting match over this.
Reportedly, Brennan and Mitch got in shouting match over this.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)2. Did anyone capture the video of McConnell the moment he realized that the jig was up?
He came out with a fiery statement against Russia, which also sounded a little defensive.
Not at all consistent with what he did to Obama when it could have mattered.
Does this dinosaur realize that we have recording devices that can document all these political maneuvers.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)4. traitor mitch
"Traitor" is not defined in the Constitution. Mitch is a traitor.
"Treason" is defined in the Constitution. Mitch might be treasonous.
G_j
(40,370 posts)5. Terry Gross, in her interview on Fresh Air
asked if McConnell was guilty of treason.