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Top Democrats seeking $300 million for FBI to fight foreign election interference
Daily Press ^ | 2/21/18 | Ed O'Keefe

Posted on 02/21/2018 5:04:58 PM PST by Libloather

Top Democrats are calling on Congress to give the FBI $300 million to fight potential foreign interference in this year's midterm elections, a request that comes just days after the Justice Department indicted Russians for meddling in the 2016 presidential contest.

The letter being sent Wednesday by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and top Democrats on the House and Senate appropriations committees calls on Republicans to provide the funding as part of "a robust and urgent response" to the Russian government's attempts to interfere in American elections.

"Congress must respond immediately to attacks on our democracy by a foreign adversary," the Democrats wrote. "We urge you to join us in vigorously combating efforts to sow discord in our country and support our state and local officials with the critical resources they need to protect our election systems."

(Excerpt) Read more at dailypress.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: california; charlesschumer; democrats; elections; fbi; foreign; mexico; nancypelosi; newyork
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Not one dime. Use the 16,000 freshly hired IRS agents who were supposed to enforce the colossal failure called Husseincare.
1 posted on 02/21/2018 5:04:58 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Bill it to Obama, Hillary and the DNC. They invited the Russians in.


2 posted on 02/21/2018 5:07:50 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Libloather

Purge voter rolls, present proper I’D to register. Proper I’D to vote. No exceptions, no temp ballots.


3 posted on 02/21/2018 5:08:24 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Libloather

Election ploy. Idiots.

How about money to fire incompetent/politicized FBI agents and use $300M to hire and train true patriots in their place?

Or to follow ISLAMIC TERRORISTS in ALL the 50 States?


4 posted on 02/21/2018 5:08:35 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Hey brainwashed students . . . where's your "outrage" @FBI? DO SOMETHING!!)
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To: Libloather
Give the FBI 300 million if Mueller and all the corrupt swamp dwellers are fired and there's a national review of voter registration in every state before every election.
5 posted on 02/21/2018 5:12:51 PM PST by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: Libloather

The way the FBI fights Russian “interference” won’t cost that much. I mean, how expensive can it be to get FISA warrants to tap the RNC and Republican Senate and House Campaign Committees? Even throw in a new Steele dossier.


6 posted on 02/21/2018 5:14:15 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
It wouldn't cost that much to arrest every member of the Demagogic Party, and that's what it would take to shut down foreign interference. Thanks Libloather.

7 posted on 02/21/2018 5:16:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Libloather

Rewarding failure?

Nah.


8 posted on 02/21/2018 5:16:44 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: Libloather

Is the FBI still a thing? Shouldn’t be.


9 posted on 02/21/2018 5:21:20 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King!)
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To: Libloather

There’s no problem for the Dems that cannot be solved by spending more of other people’s money.

You want to solve the FBI problem? Fire everyone in a paneled office.


10 posted on 02/21/2018 5:22:55 PM PST by Makana (The thing you seek the most will be found where you least want to look.)
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To: Libloather

Deport all illegal aliens. There, I fixed it. Now where is my $300 million dollars?


11 posted on 02/21/2018 5:25:01 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Libloather

I like that $300 MM figure. Except it should be a negative number. It should be reduction in their budget.


12 posted on 02/21/2018 5:29:34 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: Libloather; All
To put a major dent in interference of all kinds in elections, repeal the ill-conceived Progressive Movement 17th Amendment.
Hacking Democracy - The Hack

The 16th Amendment can disappear too.

13 posted on 02/21/2018 5:29:50 PM PST by Amendment10
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That might be enough to find out where all the money from the Middle East originated that put a Marxist African Muslim in the White House.


14 posted on 02/21/2018 5:31:02 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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Don't fiddle around overseas!

Catch them off guard at GROUND ZERO right here!

Nail the evil-doers at their headquarters before they scurry to the four winds like the rats that they are.


15 posted on 02/21/2018 5:33:22 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: Libloather

Someone posting an opinion on social media is not election interference. The whole premise is crap.


16 posted on 02/21/2018 5:34:15 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Libloather

Prosecute all foriegners who try to influence our elections!!!

Start with every illegal participating in any way, in any campaign. Hell yes!


17 posted on 02/21/2018 5:35:39 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
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To: Libloather

This will be used against Americans, not foreigners. Democrats care more about foreigners than Americans. Don’t believe them.


18 posted on 02/21/2018 5:35:44 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Neoliberalnot
That might be enough to find out where all the money from the Middle East originated that put a Marxist African Muslim in the White House.

You forgot the illegal alien part.

Can an illegal alien, muslim, half-breed from Africa qualify as a wetback?

After all - they call camels "Ships Of The Desert".


19 posted on 02/21/2018 5:37:47 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: Libloather

The corrupt FBI should have no part in the election process.


20 posted on 02/21/2018 5:37:54 PM PST by Fedora
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