Posted on 05/08/2019 12:37:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
A top Democratic lawmaker claimed Wednesday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report shows Moscow “artificially” placed President Trump in the White House -- despite the report finding no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.
The statement came amid a fiery session of the House Judiciary Committee where lawmakers weighed holding Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt for defying a subpoena for the full Mueller report.
“Seventeen different intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia interfered with our election, attacked our democracy for the sole purpose of artificially placing someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the House Democratic Caucus chairman, said. “They were successful, and that’s also what the Mueller report shows.”
“This is not a politically inspired witch hunt,” he added.
Republicans at the session, meanwhile, expressed their anger at what they described as a politically motivated push by Democrats unhappy at the conclusions of Mueller’s report and worried about efforts to probe the origins of the Russia investigation itself.
“I think it’s all about trying to destroy Bill Barr because Democrats are nervous he’s going to get to the bottom of everything,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said. “He’s going to find out how and why this investigation started in the first place.”
Mueller’s investigation did not find evidence of collusion between Trump campaign associates and the Russian government, though it detailed "links" between the two.
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Bless his heart.
A rather large New York Times correction
"[T]here were only three agencies that directly involved in this assessment plus my office," Clapper said.
Franken pressed, "But all 17 signed on to that?"
"This was a special situation because of the time limits," Clapper said, adding, "the sensitivity of the information, we decided, it was a conscious judgment, to restrict it to those three. I'm not aware of anyone who dissented, or disagreed when it came out."
Video replay...Seventeen Intelligence Agencies Lie
Article with video...Clapper Confirms: "17 Intelligence Agencies" Russia Story Was False
Ignorance can be fixed, stupid can't.
He's stupid and chooses to remain so.
He also seems to prefer perpetuating a lie
rather than in telling the truth.
Bump!
ALL LIBs are lunatics. Ridicule is the only thing they deserve.
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