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Gosh I really hope they release the transcript of McCabe's testimony. They should start releasing everything on this. Don't stop now. Don't let the media get a chance to sweep this under the rug. Make them eat their own lies with the actual evidence and testimony.

The media has gone into over drive with its spin and outright lies about what is going on. They go back forth between saying the release of the memo is one of the darkest days in our history to saying its a nothing burger. They can't seem to get their narrative on it straight yet. Don't give them a chance to get back on their feet. Keep hitting them with the cold hard truth.

Remember, to the media, scandals are only a Republican thing. Democrats are not capable of scandals, and its the media's job to make sure that their readers/viewers never think otherwise.

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Rep. Zeldin (R-NY) Quickly Refutes Attack on FISA Memo Sourced to Dems
By Debra Heine February 2, 2018

Democrats on the House Intel Committee are desperately trying to beat back one of the key findings in the FISA abuse memo — that Deputy FBI Dir. Andrew McCabe admitted under oath that there would have been no FISA warrant without the "dirty dossier."

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) explained concisely why the revelations in the memo amount to a major scandal: "The Democratic party hired the Perkins [Coie] law firm. The Perkins [Coie] law firm hired Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele to go and dig up the dossier and then they hired Nelly Ohr, the wife of Bruce Ohr, to get the fake dossier from a political environment into the bloodstream of the intelligence community and to convert it into an intelligence document."
But it's McCabe's admission that there would have been no FISA warrant without the dossier that gives teeth to the rest of the revelations.

The Daily Beast's Spencer Ackerman today published a story refuting the key point based on allegations from Democrat sources:
However, just this week Ackerman got a major story wrong based on faulty tips from Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee:
Jim Sciutto, who went straight from being an Obama administration political appointee to being a reporter at CNN in 2013, filed the same report as the Daily Beast, also based on Democrat sources:
CNN, it should be noted, recently won a well-deserved “Fake News Award" for reporting that Donald Trump Jr. received an email on September 4, 2016, with a link to the WikiLeaks archive of the DNC hack more than a week before the hacked emails were made public, thus proving “collusion” with the Russians. That story, based on Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, turned out to be fake news. Documents showed that Don Jr. got the link the day after it was published.

Embarrassingly enough, it looks like both Ackerman and CNN were burned by their sources again.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) tweeted that McCabe did indeed "testify under oath that there would not have been a FISA warrant if not for the dossier." And — "It was recorded”:
https://pjmedia.com/trending/dem-source ... -recorded/
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I thought Wolf Blitzer might stroke out during his interview (attack) of Rep Chris Stewart who’s a member of the House Intelligence Committee. The interview couldn’t have been more one sided. Wolf couldn’t even acknowledge the contents of the memo might be an issue. He was on full attack on why the Dems memo wasn’t released at the same time.
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Mcl3 Hokie wrote:I thought Wolf Blitzer might stroke out during his interview (attack) of Rep Chris Stewart who’s a member of the House Intelligence Committee. The interview couldn’t have been more one sided. Wolf couldn’t even acknowledge the contents of the memo might be an issue. He was on full attack on why the Dems memo wasn’t released at the same time.
Wolf Blitzer went full blown conspiracy theory nutjob retard upon the release of this memo. Funny how he's so concerned about how "one sidedness" this memo is, but I never heard him or any other Democrat party hack on CNN be concerned about the one-sided nature of all the anonymous leaks that they reported designed to hurt Trump and push this false phony Russia narrative. To hell with them all.

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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Attacks GOP for Memo Release: ‘Putin Has Succeeded’
by Jeff Poor2 Feb 201810,215

Friday on CNN’s “Wolf,” host Wolf Blitzer harangued Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, for releasing the much-anticipated FISA memo and doing so not at the same time as the Democratic Party minority memo, so that a side-by-side comparison could be made.

Stewart dismissed the criticism, but later in the segment, Blitzer accused Stewart and the GOP of allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to succeed given the member created doubt in U.S. government agencies.

“So, Putin has succeeded because that’s what’s happening right now,” he said. “The whole nature of the support for the intelligence community, the law enforcement community, the fighting that’s going on here in Washington, he’s sitting back and he’s smiling, saying, guys, good work. We succeeded.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/02/ ... succeeded/
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These people have lost their ever living minds!!! This is the very definition of McCarthyism.

"If you don't agree with us then you're a Russian agent."

"If you don't tow our party line, then you love Putin."

What kind of "logic" is that? What kind of debating is this??

If you don't want to watch the whole video, go to the 7:10 mark and watch from there.
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UpstateSCHokie wrote:
Mcl3 Hokie wrote:I thought Wolf Blitzer might stroke out during his interview (attack) of Rep Chris Stewart who’s a member of the House Intelligence Committee. The interview couldn’t have been more one sided. Wolf couldn’t even acknowledge the contents of the memo might be an issue. He was on full attack on why the Dems memo wasn’t released at the same time.
Wolf Blitzer went full blown conspiracy theory nutjob retard upon the release of this memo. Funny how he's so concerned about how "one sidedness" this memo is, but I never heard him or any other Democrat party hack on CNN be concerned about the one-sided nature of all the anonymous leaks that they reported designed to hurt Trump and push this false phony Russia narrative. To hell with them all.

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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Attacks GOP for Memo Release: ‘Putin Has Succeeded’
by Jeff Poor2 Feb 201810,215

Friday on CNN’s “Wolf,” host Wolf Blitzer harangued Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, for releasing the much-anticipated FISA memo and doing so not at the same time as the Democratic Party minority memo, so that a side-by-side comparison could be made.

Stewart dismissed the criticism, but later in the segment, Blitzer accused Stewart and the GOP of allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to succeed given the member created doubt in U.S. government agencies.

“So, Putin has succeeded because that’s what’s happening right now,” he said. “The whole nature of the support for the intelligence community, the law enforcement community, the fighting that’s going on here in Washington, he’s sitting back and he’s smiling, saying, guys, good work. We succeeded.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/02/ ... succeeded/
In a sense he may be correct in that Russia is loving this disruption, discontent, and partisan infighting. Has anyone thought that part of Russia's plan to disrupt the election was to have Russian agents feed false info to an eager and pliable Steele knowing that all this info would create a feeding frenzy in DC? That the intent was not to collude with Trump, as the democrats are desperately trying to prove, but to create a false narrative to create turmoil in the US? A disinformation campaign?
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The knives were out on ABC this morning. It was an all out assault on the truth with a full arsenal of DNC talking points and "Russia!!! Putin!!!" hysteria. How can people watch this stuff and feel like they learned anything?

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ABC Lashes Out at GOP: Claim Memo Helping Putin Meddling Pay in ‘Spades’
By Nicholas Fondacaro | February 4, 2018 11:34 AM EST

The knives came out on ABC during their Sunday morning programming as they made President Trump and the GOP the target of their hyperbolic smear campaign following the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo detailing alleged misconduct by the FBI and Justice Department. And at one point during This Week, host George Stephanopoulos and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz suggested that the “discord” and “mistrust” sowed by Republicans was ultimately helping Russian President Vladimir Putin.

After reading a statement from Arizona Senator John McCain (R) asserting something similar, Stephanopoulos was in awe of how much of a return Putin was getting for his efforts. “When you think about the investment that Vladimir Putin in intervening – interfering in our election it is paying off every day in spades,” he chided. His slip-up with using the term “intervening” may indicate that he actually believes the Russians changed the outcome of the election since he’s a Clinton lackey.

Raddatz’s agreed with Stephanopoulos and ridiculously asserted that, in a way, he had won the Super Bowl because of Republicans. “He won the Super Bowl. He really-- Putin has won the Super Bowl here. Exactly what he wanted to happen in this country, this discord, this mistrust of institutions is exactly why they operate this way,” she spat.

That moment was really a crescendo in their anti-Republican screed that had been building for most of the morning. During the previous hour, on Good Morning America, correspondent David Wright parroted Democratic Party talking points and claimed: “House Republicans who voted along party lines to release that document of being part and parcel of an organized event to obstruct the special counsel investigation.”

After Stephanopoulos began his show by opining about how “the memo didn’t match the hype” during the opening tease, he wrote off the memo’s central focus which was that the FBI failed to tell the FISA court that the information they were presenting was paid for by Democrats and was the work of a biased foreign agent. “Democrats, whose own rebuttal memo has been blocked by GOP, says that’s simply not true. They're backed by a host of independent experts and [a] statement from the FBI,” he argued.

A short time later, Stephanopoulos turned to Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas for his crafted defense of the FBI. “This is an extraordinary moment and these are extraordinary times with the tension between the White House and FBI seeming to grow day to day and sometimes minute by minute,” Thomas lamented before touting the FBI’s response:
But many believe the Presidents and his allies are engaged in an assault on the integrity of their institution. So, as a result, we're seeing rare moves if not unprecedented moves by FBI officials to push back. On Friday, the 13,000 FBI Agent's Association put out a statement which basically accused House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee of playing politics in releasing that controversial memo.
Stephanopoulos would go on to have former Bush-era Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matt Olsen and ABC Chief Legal Analysts Dan Abrams on to fling petty smears at the House Intelligence Committee for writing up the memo.

“Just on the four corners of the memo, it's politically motivated, it’s sort of amateurish, it's very short and it really leads to more questions than it answers,” Olsen mocked. And to continue the insults, Abrams claimed the memo “reads like a defense attorney’s brief to try to exclude evidence … This is a relatively weak legal argument, really, coming from the Nunes memo. Because in the end, what they're talking about is motivations. They're not talking about facts they got wrong or laws that were broken.”

There was no real analysis of the content of the memo, just blanket dismissals and the lobbing of Democratic insults at Republicans.

ABC
Good Morning America
February 4, 2018
8:10:31 AM Eastern

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DAVID WRIGHT: The President does claim that newly declassified Republican memo vindicates him in the Russia probe. But the Democrats are blasting back, accusing House Republicans who voted along party lines to release that document of being part and parcel of an organized event to obstruct the special counsel investigation.

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ABC
This Week
February 4, 2018
9:01:45 AM EASTERN

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning. President Trump ramped up his war on the FBI this week signaling he'll do whatever it takes to discredit the Russia probe. He’s already fired one FBI director, forced out a deputy, publicly attacked his attorney general and threatened other officials behind closed doors. And it all broke open Friday when the President declassified that infamous memo from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. The President and his allies claim it shows the FBI wrongly convinced a judge to approve a wiretap against former campaign adviser Carter Page by relying on a dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign, and for failing to disclose that funding.

Democrats, whose own rebuttal memo has been blocked by GOP, says that’s simply not true. They're backed by a host of independent experts and this statement from the FBI. “We grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

(…)

PIERRE THOAMS: This is an extraordinary moment and these are extraordinary times with the tension between the White House and FBI seeming to grow day to day and sometimes minute by minute. This is what I'm hearing from inside the FBI. They're willing to acknowledge that agents and officials sometimes make mistakes. But many believe the Presidents and his allies are engaged on an assault on the integrity of their institution. So, as a result, we're seeing rare moves if not unprecedented moves by FBI officials to push back. On Friday, the 13,000 FBI Agent's Association put out a statement which basically accused House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee of playing politics in releasing that controversial memo.

(…)

STEPHANOPOULOS: Matt, I want to begin with you, because you’re kind of the man of the moment because for three years under President Bush you oversaw the FISA application process. So your reaction to the memo?

MATT OLSEN: You know, my reaction… Just on the four corners of the memo, it's politically motivated, it’s sort of amateurish, it's very short and it really leads to more questions than it answers. You know, the central claim in the memo that biased information wasn’t was presented to the court, we now know that's not true. And that's actually consistent with my own experience overseeing the lawyers in the Justice Department.

(…)

DAN ABRAMS: This memo reads like a defense attorney’s brief to try to exclude evidence. Because in just about every high profile case I cover, the defense argues that the investigators and the prosecutors had tunnel vision. They were out to get the defendant from the beginning, they never looked at any other possible defendants. They included all sorts of unverified information in warrant applications. This is a relatively weak legal argument, really, coming from the Nunes memo. Because in the end, what they're talking about is motivations. They're not talking about facts they got wrong or laws that were broken.

(…)

STEPHANOPOULOS: When you think about the investment that Vladimir Putin in intervening – interfering in our election it is paying off every day in spades.

MARTHA RADDATZ: He won the Super Bowl. He really-- Putin has won the Super Bowl here. Exactly what he wanted to happen in this country, this discord, this mistrust of institutions is exactly why they operate this way.
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