Posted on 01/20/2018 10:59:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are considering using an obscure committee rule to bypass the executive branch's declassification process to release the classified memo on alleged surveillance abuses spearheaded by Chairman Devin Nunes.
Rep. Mike Conaway, the Texas Republican leading the committee's Russia investigation, said Friday evening that the committee would consider using the rule — which he believed had never been invoked in the committee's 40-year history — in order to publicly release the memo that Republicans say details FBI abuses of a surveillance law known as FISA. And if the committee votes in favor of making the classified Nunes memo public, the rule states that it's then up to President Donald Trump to decide whether it should be released.
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The committee rule that Republicans might rely on to release the memo states that the Intelligence Committee "may disclose publicly any information in its possession after a determination by the select committee that the public interest would be served by such disclosure."
Under the rule, the committee vote would trigger a five-day waiting period where the President has to notify the committee whether he objects to the disclosure of the information.
If the President does not object, the information would be released. But if the President does object, it would put the matter to the full House, which could potentially debate the matter in a closed session in the chamber before a public vote could override the President's objection.
Such a decision for the President could drive yet another wedge between Trump and the intelligence community, the FBI and the Justice Department, all of which almost surely would object to the release of information related to FISA warrants.
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Just reading the memo as the state of the union would be delicious.
[ all of which the Obama holdovers almost surely would object to the release of information related to FISA warrants. ]
Add in some Clinton holdovers, too. Who might be going to prison for treasonous-type activity.
I’d think more than a couple of these folks are scared.
Stupid to delay release. First it creates ultra high expectations. Second, Dems get a story together. Third, why waste an opportunity to take Dems numbers negative, already low in the Schumer Shutdown. Should have done it already. Even if leak.
[Media are obsessed with spreading the fake news that Pres is hated by everyone. My God, they need such help.]
Fourth-Estate criminals involved in criminal coverup and statist propaganda don’t want “help” for their condition - they wear it as a badge of honor, quite proudly.
Invoke the rule! Trump can sit silent for five days and offer no comment on the matter. Then the Committee can release it.
lol
I’ve seen this before. They are going to draw it out forever, then when it is released (on a Friday afternoon) it will be anticlimactic and quickly forgotten.
Yeah, he can just say his secretary was on vacation and the temp lost the form from the committee.
notice it.s being called the NUNES memo....look for that to spread in the MSM
“It’s ALWAYS in the public interest to know what their government is up to. As long as it’s not about military secrets and missions underway, anything the government does should always be disclosed. We the people are the bosses. We demand to know. Let’s get the damn memo released, along with any other evidence, regardless of where it leads. “
Well said!
We the people cannot make intelligent decisions and/or votes without complete and true information.
It’s also part of accountability.
You know what? You are so right. Which makes their sickness even more pathetic.
Maybe one of the flakes will come up with a colored ribbon to wear announcing their “Specialness.”
Trump should say he has a cold and #ReleaseTheMemo
CNN on air talking it about ...mentions russian bots promoting it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB9VSnN8Y3s
Spirit of lawlessness. Spirit of antichrist. Strong delusion. Embracing of homosexuality (Romans 1).
Not a coincidence this all magnified under BHO.
He may not the guy; but he certainly acted like him
And his followers are like deluded cult members; Hell-bent, literally it appears, on embracing lies.
Frankly, it’s shocking to see it manifest this much in real time. But, we’re in the Last Days. So it was to be expected.
How can failing media like Newsweak/NY Slimes, WSJ and ? stay open to publish their 24/7 Fake News?
Does the Deep State finance and control: Our media, DNC/RATS/GOPE/ DOJ/FBI?
CNN fake news. The memo is not classified. It only needs house approval to erase it to the public.
I like it!
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