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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The Republicans now have it in their power, evidently, to really put Trump’s enemies on the skids by releasing the document. Maybe they are waiting for Monday morning to avoid the distraction of a weekend. If they don’t release it soon, it will be beyond all comprehension as to why not.
Rule X. really.
Why? If they did nothing wrong, why would they object?
I think when they should take to the floor after the shut down and say this memo is one of the reasons the Dems shut the government down. The have a vote to release it. Plan the five days to end on the 30th. Then put it on the House website 15 minutes before the State of the Union. President Trump will then mention its available for all to see with all corresponding documents. Then he reads it and gives his opinion while he has the biggest audience he will have so the media can’t hide it.
My crystal ball says:
The evening of January 28th will see a dozen people fired.
The memo will be released to the public January 29th around 3pm.
January 30th Trump will address during SOTU.
Find your balls and just releasw it. The American people are your protection. DARE the FBI to come after you for classified information leak.
You won’t risk your career or prosecution? Lots of men risk their life for America this afternoon
Maybe they are sitting on it, to make certain people nervous and get them to cooperate and roll on others. I’m pretty sure that not knowing what is in the memo is unsettling some folks in the Capital.
Find your balls and just releasw it. The American people are your protection. DARE the FBI to come after you for classified information leak.
You won’t risk your career or prosecution? Lots of men risk their life for America this afternoon
S&GOP!
Good Grief! Just catch Feinstein’s cold and hand it to Fox News. Precedent set.
CNN doesn’t seem to remember that phrase about “of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Release the document to the people so we can make the determination of whether or not these government agencies have been working for the people or against us.
I’m not understanding something here. You have all those “conservative” counties wanting to get away from the “liberal” counties. That I get. But why are the people in those “conservative” counties voting DEMOCRAT? If they were all voting Republican, then they would have representation in their own statehouse. (I’m probably missing something obvious).
I have been told or read that the last days were imminent for years.
It used to scare me, now just bad Presidents who hate America scare me.
Honestly, I don’t understand why something like this is available to elected representatives but not to the people themselves.
I understand.
From about 2500 years ago:
Iran = Persia
Libya = Put or Phut
Turkey = House of Togarmah
Cush = Ethiopia or more likely these days, modern Sudan (not South Sudan)
Ezekiel 38 KJV (KJV phrases)
Verse 8 -> Latter Years
Verse 16 -> Latter Days
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+38&version=KJV
NOT going to say it’s tomorrow, of course.
BUT it’s no accident a serial Manchurian Candidate liar like Obama gave $150 billion dollars to Iran and Iran is actively working towards nuclear weapons to shoot at Israel. On that day, NK will seem like a minor thing because (IMHO) it will be the Middle East that eventually sets the world on fire. And somewhere in there, 7 years of false “peace” that divides Israel.
I know - wild stuff.
Keep an eye on Libya - they’ve got to align with Iran
Just some points to ponder - no offense intended
I would prefer that it be made public at 0-Dawn hundred on Monday!
Actually, nearly 2,600 years ago, now (not exactly)
My crystal ball foretells similar tidings.
Late on January 29th, the media receives its usual copy of the SOTU speech. It is a Trumpian speech, but without reference to the traitors within Obama’s executive branch.
On January 30th, the President reads the pre-released SOTU speech. At the very end, he reads the memo to the nation.
The dinosaur media won’t know what hit them or what to say.
“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.”
What the heck is this CNN propaganda!
The committee can vote on it today. Trump will sign off on it in 5 minutes. Done and released.
Yeah the Democrats used one of there own groups to claim that Russian bots are everywhere. The members of the group are known propaganda artists. Only an ignorant fool would believe them.
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