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[h=1]House panel votes to release Democratic memo on Russia probe[/h]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrat...nt-clear-trump-probe-052805868--politics.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House intelligence committee voted unanimously Monday night to release a Democratic rebuttal to the GOP's memo on the Russia investigation that President Donald Trump declassified last week.
The document now goes to Trump, who has five days to decide whether to declassify it.
The Democratic document aims to counter the Republican memo, which accuses the FBI and Justice Department of abusing their authority in monitoring a onetime Trump campaign associate.
A White House spokesman said Trump would "consider" the Democratic memo's release just as he had the Republican document.
Earlier Monday, Trump traded insults with the top Democrat on the intelligence panel, Rep. Adam Schiff of California.
Trump resorted to his occasional name-calling on Twitter, labeling Schiff "one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington." He added that Schiff "must be stopped."
Schiff quickly shot back: "Instead of tweeting false smears, the American people would appreciate it if you turned off the TV and helped solve the funding crisis, protected Dreamers or ... really anything else."
White House spokesman Raj Shah took a more measured approach, saying consideration of a release would "allow for a legal review, national security review led by the White House counsel's office."
House Speaker Paul Ryan has said he supports the release of the Democrats' memo, if sensitive intelligence information is removed.
The Senate's Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, urged Trump to back the public release and said refusing to do so would show the president's intent to undermine the Russia investigation.
On Sunday, Republicans as well as Democrats said Trump was wrong to assert that the GOP-produced memo cleared him in the Russia investigation. Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating possible collusion between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia as well as whether there have been efforts to obstruct the investigation.
Trump tweeted over the weekend that the memo "totally vindicates 'Trump' in probe" even as "the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on." But that statement found no echo from four committee Republicans who appeared on the Sunday talk shows. Lawmakers also said the memo should not impede Mueller.
"I think it would be a mistake for anyone to suggest that the special counsel shouldn't complete his work. I support his work. I want him to finish it. I hope he finishes it as quickly as possible," said Republican Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah.
Schiff has branded the GOP memo "a political hit job" and has questioned whether House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had coordinated with the White House in drafting the document seized on by the president to vent his grievances against the nation's premier law enforcement agencies.
"The goal here is to undermine the FBI, discredit the FBI, discredit the Mueller investigation, do the president's bidding," Schiff said. "I think it's very possible his staff worked with the White House."
Nunes was asked during a Jan. 29 committee meeting whether he had coordinated the memo with the White House. "As far as I know, no," he responded, then refused to answer when asked whether his congressional staff members had communicated with the White House. He had previously apologized for sharing with the White House secret intelligence intercepts related to an investigation of Russian election interference before talking to committee members.
Trump also praised Nunes in a separate tweet Monday, calling him "a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!"
The memo released Friday alleges misconduct on the part of the FBI and the Justice Department in obtaining a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page and his ties to Russia. Specifically, it takes aim at the FBI's use of information from former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled a dossier containing allegations of ties between Trump, his associates and Russia.
The underlying materials that served as the basis for the warrant application were not made public in the GOP memo. Even as Democrats described it as inaccurate, some Republicans quickly cited the memo — released over the objections of the FBI and Justice Department — in their arguments that Mueller's investigation is politically tainted.
The memo's central allegation is that agents and prosecutors, in applying in October 2016 to monitor Page's communications, failed to tell a judge that the opposition research that provided grounds for the FBI's suspicion received funding from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Page had stopped advising the campaign sometime around the end of that summer.
Steele's research, according to the memo, "formed an essential part" of the warrant application. But it's unclear how much or what information Steele collected made it into the application, or how much has been corroborated.
Republicans say a judge should have known that "political actors" were involved in allegations that led the Justice Department to believe Page might be an agent of a foreign power — an accusation he has consistently denied.
 

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Fake memo
 

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You know the fucking idiot will attempt to block it's release. Can't wait until he's indicted on obstruction charges!
 

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"The House intelligence committee voted unanimously...."

All you need to know about the contents of the memo lol

Quations... why wouldnt the democrats vote unanimously for the release of the Republican memo, like the repubs did for the Democrat one
 

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The Pauper is 3 months behind on the cable bill

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Why was the first memo passed, but the votes were all NO from democrats....

Yet THIS democrat memo was voted on and not 1 republican voted no lol. Was passed UNANIMOUSLY!

Im guessing the Democrat memo is another "Nothing burger"
 

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Democrats have no memo

It's crap

It's filled with hate & lies

Hey DaFinch the Repo man is coming
 

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The Democrats

Resist...No...Resist...No...Resist...No

Same shit different day
 

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Demos were just praying that the memo would be blocked from the public...that was there only play here
 

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Demos were just praying that the memo would be blocked from the public...that was there only play here

Yet it as unanimously passed... unlike the Repub memo which they bitched and complained about and all voted NO against it
 

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You know the fucking idiot will attempt to block it's release. Can't wait until he's indicted on obstruction charges!

Yup. His attempts to derail Rosenstein-a guy HE appointed-are as pathetic as they are transparent. And look at the fucking morons in this thread, asking why the Dems didn't vote for that sack of shit's memo, it only had virtually every intelligence outfit strongly opposed to it in addition to the Democrats.
 

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As Ali was heard to say in the last few rounds of his fight with Foreman, now, it's MY turn, lol

House panel votes to release Democratic memo on Russia probe
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So the Republican memo is a "nothing burger" but this one is super duper.

You're a moron.
 

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You know the fucking idiot will attempt to block it's release. Can't wait until he's indicted on obstruction charges!

The President can't be indicted.

You're so dumb it is actually boring.
 

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So the Republican memo is a "nothing burger" but this one is super duper.

You're a moron.

Especially when he doesnt realize that EVERYONE voted for the release. If the dem memo had anything in it the could refute the Republican memo, at least 1 republican would have voted NO. Kind of like the Nunes memo... NOT 1 SINGLE DEMOCRAT voted for it... every single DEMOCRAT voted against releasing it!
 

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So the Republican memo is a "nothing burger" but this one is super duper.

You're a moron.

I didn't say a single, solitary word about how good it was, learn how to read, you stupid cocksucker. It should be noted that, one week earlier, all those punk ass Republicans on the committee voted AGAINST the very same thing; why is that, Genius?
 

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The President can't be indicted.

You're so dumb it is actually boring.

Hmmmm, who is more knowledgable about this issue, former special prosecutor Ken star,or A Sap Sucker? Gee, that's a TOUGH one, :nohead::think2::missingteLoser!@#0Slapping-silly90))

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As special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia intensifies, the question looms whether Mueller can indict a sitting president, which would be a first in U.S. history.
Many legal scholars doubt Mueller can bring criminal charges against Trump, and more importantly, there is no legal precedent for an indictment of a president. Two Justice Department legal opinions say it is not a viable option: the first came in 1973 amid revelations of ex-President Richard Nixon's alleged involvement in the Watergate scandal, and another in 2000 after the Clinton v. Jones sexual harassment lawsuit in 1997.

Those hoping Mueller will prosecute Trump are steeped in fantasy, according to Paul Rosenzweig, a former deputy of Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel in the Whitewater real estate investments and Monica Lewinsky investigations during the Clinton administration.
“If we know anything about Mueller, we think we know that he follows the rules—all of them,” Rosenzweig wrote in The Atlantic on Tuesday. “Mueller will not indict Trump for obstruction of justice or for any crime. Period. Full stop. End of story. Speculations to the contrary are just fantasy.”
There is a big legal debate around whether indicting the president is even permissible. Andrew Wright, who was an associate counsel to former President Barack Obama, told Newsweek earlier this year that constitutional law allowing criminal charges after a president's removal has widely been interpreted as suggesting the leader of the free world "might not be amenable to prosecution and indictment while they're in office."
Trump’s personal lawyer, John Dowd, in December argued that the president “cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer" under the Constitution.
But The New York Times last July obtained a memo from Starr’s independent counsel investigation into former President Bill Clinton, considered the most thorough government-commissioned analysis rejecting the general view that presidents cannot be prosecuted while serving their terms.
“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are not part of, and are contrary to, the president’s official duties,” the Starr office memo stated. “In this country, no one, even President Clinton, is above the law.”
Mueller in October indicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates. Both pleaded not guilty.
 

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