When there is to be sharing of classified information with anyone in Congress, we have have an established protocol for doing that. The information is shared with a group of Senators and Representatives called the Gang of Eight. Four are the leaders of each of the two parties in the House and Senate. The other four are the Chair and Ranking Member of the Intelligence Committees in both the House and Senate. They are security cleared and sworn to secrecy. However, when it comes to secret documents from the investigation into Trump’s criminal conspiracy with Russia, the Republican Reich is proceeding a different way. It’s a way with no Democrats allowed!
Key congressional leaders are set to meet Thursday with federal law enforcement and intelligence bosses amid a slow-motion standoff over secret documents in the Russia investigation, the White House said on Tuesday.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders said that the White House had brokered a meeting at which two key Republican chairmen would hear from the leaders of the Justice Department, FBI and the intelligence community following weeks’ worth of requests for the classified material.
No one from the White House is scheduled to be present, Sanders said — nor, at this point, are any senators or any Democrats, in defiance of a request from the Senate minority leader.
The members of Congress set to attend are Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the chairman of the House intelligence committee, and Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
Those scheduled to attend from the executive branch are Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O’Callaghan, Sanders said…
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Here’s what Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had to say.
I could not have said it better. Nunes has an orange/brown smudge on the end of his nose, and, if Hillary had won, Gowdy would still been screaming about Benghazi. They are the most outrageous conspiracy theorists in Congress. The least harmful thing they would do is provide Rudy 911 the details of the case against the Criminal he represents, and that’s horrid!
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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They (repugs) are going to great lengths to cover up their guilt, it’s disgusting!!
Great video re: Mr. Schumer. Said what I think every day.
“They (repugs) are going to great lengths to TRY TO cover up their guilt, it’s disgusting!!”
FIFY
“The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine”
I’m counting on that – as is the rest of America!
From what I can see, the greatest irony about this opium dream is that the F.B.I DID send someone over to the Trump campaign. Not an agent, but an informant. The reason was that they had learned that members of the campaign were meeting with/involved with/entangled with Russian assets, and they wanted to PROTECT MR. TRUMP (yes, you read that right – “PROTECT”) and any member of the staff not already compromised from BECOMING compromised. Can you say, “it didn’t work out well”?
Schumer: VERY WELL SAID, INDEED! Makes me extra glad to have been a resident of Brooklyn,”… when I wore a younger man’s clothes.” I still want to know how McTurtle convinced Obama to keep quiet about the Russian interference in the summer of 2016!
Tillerson came out with a scathing desctripltionof what Dumpy is doing to our democracy, in a commencement speech the other day. It is posted on C2.
Don’t let them get away with it! Rise up, RESIST, PERSIST, INSIST, get your Progressive kith and kin involved, keep signing petitions and sending letters and tweets and e-mails, support truly Progressive candidates for office at all levels. Make sure that the Blue Wave is a tsunami in November, not a ripple.
Chuck Schumer says it all, he. He really does, but ever so politely. I know Democrats can’t do more, and certainly never want to look and sound like that tantrum-throwing toddler, but I wonder if a speech like this, with only outrage in substance, is what gets voters to the ballot box in November.
Silver lining to only briefing Nunes and Gowdy on delicate classified material is that if there’s a leak, everyone knows it’s them.
Dark rim to the silver lining: they can “leak” all the lies they want, neither NI, FBI nor DOJ can speak out on that without going into details of classified material.
I better stop before I depress myself any further.
Double, double toil & trouble;
Fire burn & caldron bubble. ?
Partisanship — Definition: 1) prejudice in favor of a particular cause; bias.
2) Republicans
It does not matter what it is — gerrymandering, briefings around the investigation, you name it! Republicans do NOT care about the country despite their protestations to the contrary, they only care about power and money, or in other words, THEMSELVES!!!!!
Chuck said it all and well! Sometimes I think the Dems need a political bazooka with which to blast Republicans to smithereens, but until the unwashed masses of their sheeple understand that their representatives are screwing them, or until they feel the pain that Republicans are inflicting on them, they will not change.
From Wikipedia: Lincoln’s speech in 1858
Lincoln’s words were true in 1858, and 160 years later, they are still true. Although Lincoln was addressing primarily the issue of slavery, 2018 sees a different slavery, a slavery to an incompetent, despotic resident of the WH and his sycophant toadies who are taking the country, and indeed the world, down a path most undesirable.
Thanks all. Hugs. Republicans partially caved. Dems are getting the info too,