Best House Intelligence Committee Stunt Award: The Envelope Please — The GOP

Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

(Viciously attacked by every Republican member)\

UPDATE AND MAJOR BREAKING NEWS FROM FOX.

Judge Andrew Napolitano said today on FOX News: “I think that Congressman Schiff is correct, in that report will be evidence of the existence of a conspiracy, not enough evidence to prove the existence beyond a reasonable doubt. In that report will be evidence of obstruction of justice, interfering with an FBI investigation for a personal gain but not enough evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.”

All I can say about that is Ho Lee Sheet… 

So, if true, would the public even stand for that? I hardly think so.

Original post starts here:

At critical public hearing with four experts on Russian intelligence tactics to disrupt the 2016 election, the GOP followed Trump’s lead and all 9 members signed a letter and attacked Rep. Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (Thursday morning, March 28, 2019) calling for him to resign his position.

Schiff for his part delivered a fiery address to the committee, reeling off evidence of the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia.

Watch this FOX News ALERT video (short version) of the GOP attack summary and call for Schiff to resign. That is followed by Schiff’s 5-minute rebuttal in his own very succinct words and style:

Schiff’s actual words (8 key emphases are mine):

“My colleagues might think it’s OK that the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president as part of what’s described as the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign.”

”My colleagues might think it’s OK that when that was offered to the son of the president, who had a pivotal role in the campaign, that the son did not call the FBI, he did not adamantly refuse that foreign help — no, instead that son said he would ‘love’ the help with the Russians. You might think it was OK that he took that meeting.”

“You might think it’s OK that Paul Manafort, the campaign chair, someone with great experience running campaigns, also took that meeting. You might think it’s OK that the president’s son-in-law also took that meeting. You might think it’s OK that they concealed it from the public.” 

“You might think it’s OK that their only disappointment after that meeting was that the dirt they received on Hillary Clinton wasn’t better. You might think it’s OK. I don’t.”

“You might think it’s OK that the president’s son-in-law sought to establish a secret back channel of communication with Russians through a Russian diplomatic facility. I don’t think that’s OK.”

“You might think it’s OK that an associate of the president made direct contact with the GRU through Guccifer 2.0 and WikiLeaks.”

“You might think it’s OK that a senior campaign official was instructed to reach that associate and find out what that hostile intelligence agency had to say, in terms of dirt on his opponent.”

“You might think it’s OK that the national security adviser-designate secretly conferred with a Russian ambassador about undermining U.S. sanctions, and you might think it’s OK he lied about it to the FBI. You might say that’s all OK, that that’s just what you need to do to win.”

Schiff’s summary: “But I don’t think that’s all OK. I think it’s immoral, I think it’s unethical, I think it’s unpatriotic and, yes, I think it’s corrupt, and evidence of collusion. I do not think that conduct, criminal or not, is OK. The day we do think that’s OK is the day we will look back and say that is the day America lost its way.”

My take on Schiff's finer points: After reading them again and knowing all we know right now, how can anyone still believe that Donald J. Trump did not know or even approve some of those actions by the people around and closest to him during the 2016 cycle? 

In a word: It is totally impossible to believe that Trump did not know.

The longer version of that FOX news alert video is the C-SPAN must watch video below. Watch and skip the breaks in the committee hearing of this very important “House Intelligence Hearing on Russian Interference Tactics.”

This is very chilling, enlightening, and educational all at the same time from a very knowledgeable panel of witness who know Russian tactics first hand and those outside of government but who also know Russian tactics to undermine our democratic system to their benefit.

Let’s face it, the 2016 election was a banner year and their most-successful campaign in that regard ever. Make no mistake about that.

C-SPAN video below (3+ hours total) and webpage link here:

My 2 cents: Related here is another string of Trump lies and of course with Hannity on FOX – truly amazing and guess what? Trump loyalists love it.

Thus, the national anger, ugliness, raw hatred, and nasty political division continues, and directly from the President of the United States – astonishing, isn’t it? Truly, an American political history first.

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