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The House Intelligence Committee just issued its first subpoenas in the Trump-Russia investigation
Business Insider ^

Posted on 05/31/2017 5:37:31 PM PDT by Stopthethreat

The other three subpoenas relate to questions around why Obama administration officials "unmasked" and distributed the names of Trump associates in classified intelligence reports.

The Journal reported that those subpoenas were issued to the CIA, FBI, and NSA and are seeking information related to unmasking requests made by former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former CIA director John Brennan, and former UN ambassador Samantha Power.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; domesticspying; eavesdropping; fbi; nsa; samanthapower; spying; surveillance; susanrice; unmasking
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Hate to be cynical but just more kabuki? So they can downplay and justify the spying/unmasking?
1 posted on 05/31/2017 5:37:32 PM PDT by Stopthethreat
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To: Stopthethreat
I would love to see prominent Obama Democrat officials in orange jumpsuits having their day in court and then hopefully sent off to prison.
2 posted on 05/31/2017 5:39:47 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Stopthethreat

House Intelligence Committee...

See, these jokers do have a sense of humor.


3 posted on 05/31/2017 5:40:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Stopthethreat

NOTHING WILL HAPPEN....

Worthless grandstanding....

If the Demoncrats decide not to play.... then no game.


4 posted on 05/31/2017 5:48:53 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Stopthethreat

We’ll be seeing the 5th being invoked especially by Rice.


5 posted on 05/31/2017 5:50:08 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: All
You Know The Drill
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6 posted on 05/31/2017 5:54:50 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Stopthethreat
Right on cue, CNN is out with another one of their "Breaking News" things: "First on CNN: Sources: Congress investigating another possible Sessions-Kislyak meeting"

It appears this is yet another rehash of the time Sessions (and many others) met the ambassador in a reception at some hotel before a Trump rally.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/politics/congress-investigating-jeff-sessions-russian-ambassador-meeting/index.html

I guess every time CNN revives these stories they count as "new revelations" that Congress must now "investigate"

7 posted on 05/31/2017 5:55:37 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Stopthethreat

Yes. Kabuki.

These hearings are preceded by written questions, then written answers, and then little straying from the script for the tv show. It’s not even ‘reality’ tv, as ‘reality’ tv doesn’t have paid writers like the hearing scripts.

Congress won’t exercise their power to punish contempt, and won’t punish agencies via budgets, so of course no insider takes hearings seriously.


8 posted on 05/31/2017 5:55:48 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Stopthethreat

What a useless joke. Bunch of idiot politicians need some TV time and nothing will happen, so damn boring.


9 posted on 05/31/2017 6:56:32 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: DoughtyOne

What happened to Nunez? He was the chair. Did he recuse himself?

The whole committee is obviously run by Schiff (D), who is being quoted and courted like royalty while making the media rounds and briefing the press.

Is Schiff behind the Carter Paige cancellation of hearing before the committee? How about the overly broad demands for an appearance by Trump’s great attorney Cohen, which he refused?

These are NeverTrumpers filling that revolting committee.


10 posted on 05/31/2017 7:01:29 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: RitaOK

These hearings are so silly, I don’t even pay attention to them. I pick up stuff by osmosis.

It is a good example of how tuned into what is going on, the leadership is.

Ryan is simply MIA.

The Democrats bash Trump at will, and get no push-back whatsoever. If you’re right here, Shiff is running the show and Ryan seemingly couldn’t care less.

Shiff is my Congressman. Man, this living in California is dismal when it comes to politics.


11 posted on 05/31/2017 7:05:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: RitaOK

Earlier reports had Nunez.


12 posted on 05/31/2017 7:08:32 PM PDT by piasa
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To: Stopthethreat

Interesting they issued a subpoena to Samantha Power. Very interesting.


13 posted on 05/31/2017 7:09:19 PM PDT by piasa
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We gotta get you outta there. Lol! Proud to say that you're a terrible fit for Calivenzuela.😉
14 posted on 05/31/2017 7:30:44 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: RitaOK

Wow, what did Venezuela do to you? Ha ha ha...

You know folks, things change in ways we never expect them to.

There may come a time when California swings back to reality.

I can tell you that two years ago, if you would have told me what would be going on with Trump right now, I’d have said you were absolutely crazy.


15 posted on 05/31/2017 7:36:04 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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-- Interesting they issued a subpoena to Samantha Power. --

Not to her. The subpoenas are to FBI, NSA and CIA, and aks for the agencies to produce all documents, etc. that relate to unmasking requests submitted by Power, Rice, and Brennan.

Still interesting. This is the first time her name has popped up.

16 posted on 05/31/2017 7:40:32 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: DoughtyOne

I hope you’re proven correct. Right now, it’s positively a frightening and alarming stream of bad news, on the pillage of a beautiful state and never mind the dangerous political and cultural influence on our country. Not a piece of good news coming out of there for years.

Are you a native of CA? It is so beautiful there!


17 posted on 05/31/2017 8:02:08 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: RitaOK

I was born a couple of miles from my current home.

From three to eighteen I lived in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas.

I’ve lived on a 120 acre farm with the closest neighbors one mile away, in a small city of 45,000, and the greater Los Angeles region.

California is one of the most diverse and remarkable places on the planet.

You can find a place in California that will remind you of every other state.

It’s a literal paradise.

The Left has shown us what can happen in paradise.


18 posted on 05/31/2017 8:16:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Somehow, what you describe is what I imagined for you. Away from the metropolitan area, in the country, or in a very small town where people know each other. How else could it be, to have such hope under such governance and cultural decadence of Hollywood, but to be separated from the intensity of the socialist influence.

I’m glad you’re content. You deserve it.


19 posted on 05/31/2017 8:29:35 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: RitaOK

If you live where you don’t feel safe, you can’t be content.

Other than that folks decide to be content or not.

That’s not to say we shouldn’t aspire to be/have more, but making ourselves unhappy because we don’t have more is a decision, the wrong one.

I live in a highly populated area. I love my home.

I am very low maintenance.

I can be happy just about anywhere.


20 posted on 05/31/2017 8:43:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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