Senate Intel agrees with assessment that Russia meddled to help Trump (CBS headline)

CBS News ^ | July 3 2018 | Olivia Gazis

[hal ogen]

What deep state morons. Are all congress-losers compromised? I guess being a Patriot and being honest are so “then”. Pathetic.

[chiller]

Spot on...I’m confident Vlad would like to see a weakened Hillary as President.

[Bonemaker]

“Pure bullshit.
These nevertrump dimwits are still trying to cover for Hillary and her Uranium giveaway.

By doing so, these lowlife bastards are covering for Mueller, Obama and a whole bunch of other lowlifes involved in that traitorous act.”

16 months of squandered time and money for these dumb bastards to come up with a crock of shit.

[Bonemaker]

Burr and Warner...oh Geez. I wouldn’t let those two assholes try and paint my garage.

[Hotlanta Mike]

What’s going to be their excuse in 2020?

[Bookshelf]

The report is simply a whitewash. Words without evidence to support arguments. There is one paragraph that is really disturbing and seems to say everything that needs be said of this report:

The Committee finds the difference in confidence levels
between the NSA and the CIA and FBI on the assessment that
“Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President
elect Trump’s election chances” appropriately represents
analytic differences and was reached in a professional
and transparent manner.

[Hotlanta Mike]

And to think Obama was so flexible with his pal Valdimir Putin that Hussein told his czar of cybersecurity to stand down in the face of this Russian intervention...

[Wuli]

A huge giant half truth and half truth’s amount to a lie.

The truth is yes Russia tried to meddle in the U.S. election.

The lie is that they did so with intent to bolster Trump, who unlike the Clintons had never gotten any benefits from nor given any benefits to Russia.

The truth is the Russian intent was to advance any pre-existent discord in the American electorate.

The truth is that both major parties were advancing on the themes that rode as well on that discord, and collectively through all sources and venues put massively more into their efforts than the tiny efforts of Russia.

Thr truth is that whatever the Russian effortts were, they were not a factor in deciding the election.

[Robert DeLong]

Is it any wonder why? Not to me. I see very little in the way of intelligence in this group. The majority of them are anything but intelligent. With 8 Republicans & 7 Democrats, all it took was 2 Republicans to vote with the Democrats who you know all voted in unison. My guess is they got at least 3 of these clown Republicans to vote as did the Democrats.

U. S. Senate Select Committee On Intelligence

Republicans

Richard Burr
North Carolina
Chairman

James Risch - Idaho
Marco Rubio - Florida
Susan Collins - Maine
Roy Blunt - Missouri
James Lankford - Oklahoma
Tom Cotton - Arkansas
John Cornyn - Texas

Democrats

Mark Warner
Virginia
Vice Chairman

Dianne Feinstein - California
Ron Wyden - Oregon
Martin Heinrich - New Mexico
Angus King - Maine
Joe Manchin - West Virginia
Kamala Harris - California

SOURCE

[boycott]

What a load of BS.

They act as if RT, the Russian state-funded television network, was doing something undercover. It was right there in front of anyone to see.

RT was no more biased than Al Jazeera. So the only propaganda we had was from Russia? The USA has certainly used radio for propaganda purposes. Therefore, we should not by hypocrites if others do it.

If RT preferred Trump, who cares? It’s not like the muslim brotherhood, CAIR, Al Jazeera, and the foreigners donating millions to the Clinton Foundation were supporting Trump.

Here is a list of the Senate Committee:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/committees/SLIN

Most all of them are big piles of @#%&.

[boycott]

That’s not complete. Note McCain, Mitch, etc. .....

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/committees/SLIN

[Bonemaker]

Yeah, that’s a bunch of DC gobbledygook which translates to they don’t have a clue. Also, aspire means a desire or wish for something not an actual achievement.

[butlerweave]

Senate and Intelligence = Oxymoron

[Bonemaker]

“WTF is wrong with my generation that we let this bullshit happen?! “

It is caused by the mindset of the voters which allowed Obama to happen to the country for 8 horrific years. Whether the country has actually gotten well yet remains to be seen.

[Don Corleone]

Illogical Mr. Spock. Why would Putin try to help Trump, his outspoken enemy in favor of good old reset Hillary his dedicated friend? Illogical to the max.

[GOPJ]

And the Brits meddled to elect Hillary.

I’m betting Germans did what they could to help Hillary...

[granada]

Because Trump’s campaign messages made Russians believe he was not as insane as McCain, not as sneaky as Obama, so they had preference for him in good faith.

Nothing wrong with it.

It will be pathetic If Trump supporters still prefer the endorsement of Germany, France, Canada, Vatican.....

[BobL]

So what if they did interfere, is it Trump’s fault? Trump wasn’t running the country at that time, it wasn’t Trump’s job to prevent Russian interference - how could he?

Now, WOULD THEY MIND investigating whether the FBI also interfered in the election.

[Robert DeLong]

ex officio - Literally, by virtue of one's office. The term refers to the practice under Senate rules that allows the chairman and ranking minority member of a committee to participate in any of the subcommittees of that committee, but generally not to vote.

SOURCE

So the question is, were they allowed to vote on this issue? I cannot find the vote count and who voted which way to determine if they voted. Chances are pretty good that McCain did not vote.

Also though, government track is not a government website, whereas my source was. So perhaps that is why they do not include ex officios.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Russia did meddle and would have meddled regardless of who was running, that is not the question. (Our American govt does the same overseas but in different ways and with different rationales and modes of approach.) The question is not about Russia’a innocence, it is whether the Trump campaign colluded and the answer is no.