Grennell at ODNI went ahead and released the 53 transcripts that POS Schiff was holding tight to the vest. As reporters are puring through these, this is what we are finding out:

The first one is on CrowdStrike admits that they dont have any evidence it was the russians who broke into hillary's emails:

Then this sh*Tbag Farkas who went on MSNBC and lied, but decided to tell the truth under oath. The left still fell for it though.

In their attempt to kill the Great Orange Liberator they have made him stronger. The ultimate boomerang.

This is gonna f*ck Trump so hard in November- Mach, probably

(05-08-2020 08:57 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Then this sh*Tbag Farkas who went on MSNBC and lied, but decided to tell the truth under oath. The left still fell for it though.

If they were half as smart as they think they are we'd be fricked.

(05-08-2020 09:23 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-08-2020 08:57 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Then this sh*Tbag Farkas who went on MSNBC and lied, but decided to tell the truth under oath. The left still fell for it though.

If they were half as smart as they think they are we'd be fricked.

If they were actually competent we'd be screwed as well.

This one is both scary and telling:

1. Obama knew
2. Comey went around Sally Yates on the FLynn deal, so when Obama said he wanted to talk about the FLynn call with Comey and Yates, Yates had no idea what he was talking about.

(05-08-2020 09:38 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  This one is both scary and telling:

1. Obama knew
2. Comey went around Sally Yates on the FLynn deal, so when Obama said he wanted to talk about the FLynn call with Comey and Yates, Yates had no idea what he was talking about.

Yates realized very quickly that that idiot Comey had just exposed them all. That was her exasperation.

When did we start caring about lying?

Quote:The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released transcripts of interviews conducted by the panel during its Russia probe in 2017 and 2018 -- amid demands by Republicans to make them public after being cleared by the intelligence community.

The committee, led by California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, publicly released 57 transcripts, as well as additional material, from the committee’s investigation.

In a statement, Schiff did not back down from his contention -- fiercely disputed by Republicans -- that President Trump and his campaign "invited illicit Russian help" to win the 2016 election.

“Despite the many barriers put in our way by the then-Republican Majority, and attempts by some key witnesses to lie to us and obstruct our investigation, the transcripts that we are releasing today show precisely what Special Counsel Robert Mueller also revealed: That the Trump campaign, and Donald Trump himself, invited illicit Russian help, made full use of that help, and then lied and obstructed the investigations in order to cover up this misconduct,” Schiff said in a statement.

But the transcripts are full of testimony from officials who said they were unaware of evidence showing coordination between the Trump team and the Russians.

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen – who later had a falling out with the president and was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to several crimes – repeatedly told the House panel that he had no evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russian government

“Do you have any evidence or information of coordination between then-Presidential candidate Donald Trump to interfere with or influence the 2016 primary or general election?” then-South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy asked Cohen.

“No, sir,” Cohen replied.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in the transcripts, discussed how the Russians believed Trump would be "easier to deal with" than Hillary Clinton as president.

“I do think, though, they thought that...President Trump would be easier to deal with,” Clapper said. “He is a businessman. He'd be more willing to negotiate and make deals. And I don't think it was anything more sophisticated than that sort of guided their objectives.”

But he also said: "I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election."

The 53 transcripts include interviews with associates of the president, including Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, Hope Hicks, Corey Lewandowski, Cohen, Roger Stone, Brad Parscale, Michael Caputo and Rick Dearborn.

It also includes transcripts for interviews with officials from former President Barack Obama's administration, such as Clapper; former Attorney General Loretta Lynch; former Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power; former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe; former National Security Adviser Susan Rice; former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; former Obama adviser Benjamin Rhodes; and former Obama counselor and Hillary Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta.

Also in the transcripts, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe acknowledged that a dossier of claims compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele about Trump’s relationship with Russia had not been determined by the FBI to be accurate.

“There is a lot of information in the Steele reporting,” McCabe said. “We have not been able to prove the accuracy of all the information."

Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said on Thursday it was "long past time" that the transcripts were released.

“At the bipartisan request of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Intelligence Community reviewed all transcripts for classification and made appropriate redactions," Grenell said in a statement. "HPSCI voted unanimously in 2018 to publicly release these transcripts, and it is long past time that these are released.”

Earlier this week, House Republicans sought the transcripts after the panel in September 2018 voted on a bipartisan basis to approve their public release. Grenell then notified Schiff, D-Calif., that the redaction and declassification process was complete, and that the records were ready for release.

Schiff’s committee said they sent a letter to Grenell informing him that they are releasing transcripts with the redactions applied by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

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The transcripts confirm no collusion, which is why he didn’t want them released.

How many times have these folks lied in public since?

Here’s Clapper lying his head off:

(05-08-2020 02:13 PM)Ohio Poly Wrote:  When did we start caring about lying?

The question is do you care about lying that breaks the law and attempts to take out a duly elected president? If not, maybe Trump will weaponize the intelligence agencies and destroy the democrats forever. Karma bittch...

(05-08-2020 02:40 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

How many times have these folks lied in public since?

Here’s Clapper lying his head off:

Like Lara Logan said today “what these people were saying in the public was not what they were saying under oath”. Really. And some morons are apoplectic over hand size and crowd size. I so glad my mother didn’t raise an idiot.

When will Utah recall Mitt Romney?

(05-08-2020 02:57 PM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  When will Utah recall Mitt Romney?

At the end of his term in office: Friday/03rd January 2025. There is no constitutional provision to “recall” him any sooner than that.

Mitt Romney and Justin Amash are two people whose recent actions I find perplexing.

I have always like Amash, and I frankly think his anti-Trump stance is an effort to attract never-Trump conservatives to his libertarian presidential bid. If that works, and he has a very successful run (>5% of the vote) then I guess it was a good political move. I will probably vote for him, because his views come closest to mine.

I really don't know what think of Romney's excursions off the reservation. I guess he just hates Trump that much.

(05-08-2020 09:24 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Mitt Romney and Justin Amash are two people whose recent actions I find perplexing.

I have always like Amash, and I frankly think his anti-Trump stance is an effort to attract never-Trump conservatives to his libertarian presidential bid. If that works, and he has a very successful run (>5% of the vote) then I guess it was a good political move. I will probably vote for him, because his views come closest to mine.

I really don't know what think of Romney's excursions off the reservation. I guess he just hates Trump that much.

If you don't know what to think about Romney by now there's no hope for you. I'll give you guys a slight pass on Amash who is liberal refusing the label, but there is no pass on Romney, a suckled at the breast of the taxpayer 2nd generation politician so sold to the Deep State and so deep in Corporate pockets that he is unredeemable. What's more he's the author of the Massachusetts healthcare bill that Obama care was predicated upon. That part is inexcusable.

(05-08-2020 09:40 PM)JRsec Wrote:  What's more he's the author of the Massachusetts healthcare bill that Obama care was predicated upon. That part is inexcusable.

Now you're the one buying the Obama line. Romney was not the author of the bill. It was a compromise with a hard left leaning legislature. And no, Obamacare was not derived from it. That was a lie they told to try to embarrass republicans into voting for it.

And Amash is not a liberal, except in the classical European sense. He is a libertarian, like me, and that has nothing to do with American liberalism.

(05-08-2020 11:55 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-08-2020 09:40 PM)JRsec Wrote:  What's more he's the author of the Massachusetts healthcare bill that Obama care was predicated upon. That part is inexcusable.

Now you're the one buying the Obama line. Romney was not the author of the bill. It was a compromise with a hard left leaning legislature. And no, Obamacare was not derived from it. That was a lie they told to try to embarrass republicans into voting for it.

And Amash is not a liberal, except in the classical European sense. He is a libertarian, like me, and that has nothing to do with American liberalism.

Socialized Medicine is socialized medicine. The difference between Romney's bill and Obama's is merely a matter of degree.

As for Amash he will have to have a significant role somewhere with which to prove his stripes. Right now he can be whatever he claims to be because his actions don't have to match his words.

I know what Obama is. I know what Bush is. There are only two groups at work here. Pro Deep State people regardless of party, and those who are not. Trump is not. Romney, Bush, H.W. Bush, Clinton, McCain, and Ryan all were. You can place the FBI conspirators in that group as well. Amash is a wait and see. I doubt he's Deep State, but he may be other.

(05-08-2020 11:55 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-08-2020 09:40 PM)JRsec Wrote:  What's more he's the author of the Massachusetts healthcare bill that Obama care was predicated upon. That part is inexcusable.

Now you're the one buying the Obama line. Romney was not the author of the bill. It was a compromise with a hard left leaning legislature. And no, Obamacare was not derived from it. That was a lie they told to try to embarrass republicans into voting for it.

And Amash is not a liberal, except in the classical European sense. He is a libertarian, like me, and that has nothing to do with American liberalism.

It has everything to do with liberalism when it gets a liberal elected.