Posted on 01/19/2018 5:05:37 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) today led a group of 65 lawmakers in a letter to Chairman Devin Nunes of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence urging the immediate release of the four-page FISA Memo document to the public, as well as any relevant ancillary information. In the letter, Rep. Gaetz states, “the audience of this document should not be limited to Members of Congress — the American people deserve to know the information it contains.”
Cosigners of the letter include: Congressmen Brian Babin (TX-36), Don Bacon (NE-02), Jim Banks (IN-03), Jack Bergman (MI-01), Andy Biggs (AZ-05), Rod Blum (IA-01), Dave Brat (VA-07), Larry Bucshon (IN-08), Ted Budd (NC-13), Michael Burgess (TX-26), Bradley Byrne (AL-01), Buddy Carter (GA-01), Steve Chabot (OH-01), Warren Davidson (OH-08), Rodney Davis (IL-13), Scott DesJarlais (TN-04), Jeff Duncan (SC-03), Blake Farenthold (TX-27), Thomas Garrett (VA-05), Bob Gibbs (OH-07), Louie Gohmert (TX-01), Paul A. Gosar (AZ-04), Morgan Griffith (VA-09), Brett S. Guthrie (KY-02), Andy Harris (MD-01), Jody Hice (GA-10), Trey Hollingsworth (IN-09), Richard Hudson (NC-08), Randy Hultgren (IL-14), Darrell Issa (CA-49), Bill Johnson (OH-06), Jim Jordan (OH-04), David Joyce (OH-14), Mike Kelly (PA-03), Steve King (IA-04), Raul R. Labrador (ID-01), Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Robert E. Latta (OH-05), Barry Loudermilk (GA-11), Tom McClintock (CA-04), Mark Meadows (NC-11), Luke Messer (IN-06), Alex Mooney (WV-02), Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Kristi Noem (SD-01), Ralph Norman (SD-05), Steven Palazzo (MI-04), Gary Palmer (AL-06), Scott Perry (PA-04), Ted Poe (TX-02), Jim Renacci (OH-16), Phil Roe (TN-01), Dana Rohrabacher (CA-48), Francis Rooney (FL-19), Mark Sanford (SC-01), James F. Sensenbrenner (WI-05), Lloyd Smucker (PA-16), Claudia Tenney (NY-22), Mimi Walters (CA-45), Randy Weber (TX-14), Bruce Westerman (AR-04), Roger Williams (TX-25), Ted Yoho (FL-03), and Lee Zeldin (NY-01).
The full text of the letter can be found below.
LETTER TEXT
The Honorable Devin Nunes
Chairman
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
HVC-304, The Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Chairman Nunes:
Thank you for your hard work as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), and for making the recent four-page memo from HPSCI available to Members of Congress. After reading the document, we were shocked and frustrated, but it has deepened our belief in the vital importance of transparency.
This important memo will be of interest to anyone who cares about America and our democratic system of government. We are writing to request the immediate release of this document to the public, as well as any relevant ancillary information. The audience of this document should not be limited to Members of Congress — the American people deserve to know the information it contains.
Thank you for your service and for your prompt attention to this request.
Sincerely,
Matt Gaetz
Member of Congress
It’s about using FISA warrant derived info back to at least 2012 to gather dirt on gobs of people too.
Yep - sent my “reps” a note demanding they do it -
Do it.
I believe this is a defining moment in American history. Failure to release it in it’s entirety, and soon, relegates us to bnanna republic status.
I pray to God in Heaven you are right.
“Many Bothans died to bring us this information.”
Heh. Gowdy is clammed up in a fetal position somewhere.
His colleagues got tired of waiting around for Gowdy to “do something.”
The usual rock-hard patriots are on the list.....but some surprising names, as well.
It’s the height of ludicrousness that Republicans are adhering to the rules for the release.
B/c the criminals complicit in this atrocity....why it’s even an issue.....is that they could care less about rules.
We already know the NSA is tracking internet and phone, even the contents of communications (e-mail and phone), and not just metadata
— how could this be made worse? Star-chamber courts
?
Clandestine death-squads/assassinations? / Massive [ab]use of Civil Asset Forfeiture
to steal both assets and the means to provide a [legal] defense?
Scailia?
Child trafficking and abuse on a massive scale.
I really hope your assessment is correct.
I fail to see the connection between FISA ("intelligence", wire-tapping, and the like) and child trafficking/abuse. — Unless there's things like memos going around detailing child trafficking/abuse, I don't see how FISA could connect.
There is no direct connection. FISA is merely the tip of the iceberg.
If there's no direct connection, then the memo will have nothing to do with it. Period.
FISA is merely the tip of the iceberg.
Well, we already know how much esteem the Powers That Be hold our Constitution — going by that standard, FISA isn't even the snow atop the Iceberg.
“If there’s no direct connection, then the memo will have nothing to do with it. Period. “
I said, “From what I understand, whats coming down the pipeline will be 100 times worse than that.”
This is post-memo stuff.
Rep. Steve King tweeted this:
“I have read the memo. The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an innocent explanation for the information the public has seen. I have long said it is worse than Watergate. It was #neverTrump & #alwaysHillary. #releasethememo
BTW, IG Horowitz released some of his 1.2million documents to Congress last Friday. Dead silence. Puzzling.
Hear, Hear!
Hope it is indeed Austerlitz-18.
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