Release the Krak... err FISA Memo!

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zinfamous

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No democrats need a large number of people who are reliant on the government in order to stay in power. I know.... some witty comeback is forthcoming.

what's that, the elderly, retirees, homeless veterans, wards of the state created from forced births, Brunhilda the mythical welfare queen, unemployed coal miners, uneducated methheads feeding on AM radio from their fallout shelters?

nah, you guys have at least half if not most of those demographics locked up, idiot.
 
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So Alex Jones, yes InfoWars Alex Jones, claims he has the memo and that it was given to him by William Binney, a former
US intelligence official. Claims he is trying to post it right now.

Now, this is Jones so odds are he's full of shit but just in case I trust Trump, Fox News and the entire right wing echo sphere will be calling for their immediate prosecution for leaking it. Amiright?
 

UglyCasanova

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I wish they’d go on and release the thing. If it’s as damning as they say we should all want it released.
 
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I wish they’d go on and release the thing. If it’s as damning as they say we should all want it released.
It's Nunes own interpretation of things with no input from anyone else. The same Nunes who seemed to be running interference for the Admin when this all began. There is nothing that is keeping them from releasing it. They could at any time. They just need to talk about how damning it is so that when ti does come out and proves to be nothing the faithful will keep talking about how damning it is because they won't care about the actual details at that point.
 

fskimospy

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I wish they’d go on and release the thing. If it’s as damning as they say we should all want it released.

I imagine what you will get from this memo when it is released (and I bet it eventually will be!) is a cherry picked set of facts that Nunes has used to paint whatever picture he's looking for. After all, we have already seen him deliberately try and mislead the American people on this topic already.

If they wanted to release ALL of the information related to this memo, or at least if we could trust them to make a good faith effort to paint things accurately I would totally agree. What we will almost certainly get instead is misleading red meat for conservatives.
 

Chromagnus

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I wish they’d go on and release the thing. If it’s as damning as they say we should all want it released.

If the memo is actually as bad as they say it is and they wanted to release it they could with basically no issues. Trump could declassify the memo, which if it was really that damning he would. Also if they found any evidence of a crime and choose to hide it they could get in trouble.

In summary if they had anything real they would release the memo and charges would be filed because this is "worse than Watergate".

That being said if they have actual evidence of someone breaking the law we should all see it, it just doesn't seem like they have anything.
 

HomerJS

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I wish they’d go on and release the thing. If it’s as damning as they say we should all want it released.
You can't release a document where someone cherry picked content from classified data without releasing the classified data. Therefore don't release. Besides Nunes has already shown he can't be trusted.
 
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lol fucking Alex Jones. Too predictable.


His big scoop is an item that was declassified and released in April of last year.

Here's his headline.

EXCLUSIVE: INFOWARS RELEASES SECRET FISA MEMO
Here’s the reported memo leaked to Infowars
Kit Daniels | Infowars.com - JANUARY 23, 2018

Here's the memo.

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf

I'm hoping we can all agree here that InfoWars is the actual fake news that needs to be erradicated? can we all agree to that?
 

Jhhnn

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I wish they’d go on and release the thing. If it’s as damning as they say we should all want it released.

Why would you even entertain the possibility that Nunes is credible in any way? His purpose is to deceive, not to enlighten.
 

UNCjigga

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So Nunes/Nunes' staff wrote the memo; but he cannot release because... classified? Republicans control the executive branch... can't they just declassify the damn thing? I guess if Nunes leaks after being subject to an ethics investigation re: leaks, it would be bad for him? I'm so confused, hard to cut through all the stupid with this one...
 

Jhhnn

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So Nunes/Nunes' staff wrote the memo; but he cannot release because... classified? Republicans control the executive branch... can't they just declassify the damn thing? I guess if Nunes leaks after being subject to an ethics investigation re: leaks, it would be bad for him? I'm so confused, hard to cut through all the stupid with this one...

It's standard right wing mind fuck for people who don't read past the headlines & Fox viewers. It's like 200 Commies in the State Dept.
 

Jhhnn

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Non mentally deficient people call it facts. Again it is called F-A-C-T-S, but this time I typed it slowly for you.

Why, it's perfectly obvious that Hilary got the FBI to investigate her fucking emails so that Russian hackers would steal the emails of the DNC & use an army of trolls & bots in social media to vilify her & exalt Trump. In Benghazi with the birth certificate because pizza parlor, Jade Helm, Sharia Law, FEMA gayification camps & the Deep State. And never forget the Bowling Green massacre or that the MSM is the Enemy of the People.

You betcha.
 
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BAMAVOO

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I bet it reveals little or nothing of interest other than standard government operating procedures. I then imagine conservatives will go ballistic anyway and decide they are (yet again) the victims of a conspiracy despite no evidence supporting that idea.

As evidence of this, just look at basically everything else that happened over the last eight years. Plenty of people on this board are still convinced that conservatives were the victims of an Obama weaponized IRS, for example.


That is documented truth. Look up Phil Valentine and the issues he had.
 

BAMAVOO

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Republicans are in good company as usual...Russian Twitter bots and Wikileaks are ramping up the #releasethememo campaign on Twitter. I'm guessing Russian intelligence already knows what the memo contains...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...ethememo-endorsed-russian-bots-trolls-n839141

Edit: Also, note that they only want to release the memo AFTER a key vote on reauthorization of Section 702...
Republicans are in good company as usual...Russian Twitter bots and Wikileaks are ramping up the #releasethememo campaign on Twitter. I'm guessing Russian intelligence already knows what the memo contains...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...ethememo-endorsed-russian-bots-trolls-n839141

Edit: Also, note that they only want to release the memo AFTER a key vote on reauthorization of Section 702...
The only Bots are you paid leftist type.
 
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Jesus Christ they won’t even show this memo to Burr. A republican who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee who has access to any and all info this memo would be based on. The man can back them up if it’s valid and yet. Denied.

This whole thing is bullshit.
 

soundforbjt

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Jesus Christ they won’t even show this memo to Burr. A republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee who has access to any and all info this memo would be based on. The man can back them up if it’s valid and yet. Denied.

This whole thing is bullshit.
Yeah an actual example of the often used term by the republicans...nothing burger.
 

Jhhnn

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Jesus Christ they won’t even show this memo to Burr. A republican who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee who has access to any and all info this memo would be based on. The man can back them up if it’s valid and yet. Denied.

This whole thing is bullshit.

Of course it's bullshit. It's Devin Nunes, the Alex Jones of the HOR.
 

vi edit

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Apparently this whole memo is about the FBI extending surveillance coverage on Carter Page. Carter Page. Yes, that Carter Page. The most idiotic of useful idiots. This is the person that the gopstapo is mounting their battle over. All of this in an attempt to try and fling mud at Rosenstein since he's what is standing in the way of dumping Mueller.

2018 election can't happen soon enough. Hopefully the correct lever is pulled and all of these turds are flushed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-carter-page-secret-memo.html