Chair Of House Intel Committee: No Evidence Of Contact Between Trump Campaign, Russia

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The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said on Monday he has seen no evidence of contact between Donald Trump's campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election. Nunes said he had been briefed on a transcript of a phone call that Michael Flynn had with a Russian envoy after the election and said he did not hear anything worrisome about that call.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-27/chair-house-intel-committee-no-evidence-contact-between-trump-campaign-russia

[AngryCanadian]

CNN must be disappointed.

[LibertyEagle]

CNN must be disappointed.

Not to mention more than a few vociferous forum members.

[CPUd]

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[dannno]

Not to mention more than a few vociferous forum members.

The part of your soul which gets disappointed seems to be missing from these members. They are almost, like, robots. They will be on here tomorrow posting more yellow journalism from the mainstream media.

[Iowa]

Right, the Russians are going to contact Americans for infiltration campaigns. :rolleyes:

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/25/top-republican-says-special-prosecutor-should-investigate-russian-meddling-in-trumps-election/?utm_term=.fa79a2365c84


Top Republican says special prosecutor should investigate Russian meddling in Trump’s election

A senior Republican lawmaker on Friday agreed that a special prosecutor should investigate Russia's alleged interference with the 2016 presidential election.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) became one of the few Republican representatives to state publicly the need for an independent investigation into Russia's reported election meddling. This comes as Democrats have increasingly pushed for an investigation into President Trump's associates' ties to Russia.

In an appearance on HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Issa, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, first told the progressive show host that House and Senate intelligence committees would look into Russia's activities “within the special areas they oversee.”

That was not sufficient for Maher, who pressed Issa — formerly the head of the House Oversight Committee — on whether he would have “let that slide” had similar suspicions arose involving the Democrats. Maher has been a vocal critic of Trump.

Shortly after the election, a CIA assessment concluded that hackers with connections to the Russian government targeted the Democratic National Committee and leaked thousands of emails to WikiLeaks in an effort to sway the outcome in Trump's favor. United States intelligence agencies have said they agree with the assessment, and a broad investigation is underway.

Russia has denied the accusations, and Trump — who has a history of praising Russian President Vladimir Putin — has vehemently denounced the findings and continued to blast the intelligence community.

“Let's go back to 2012,” Maher asked Issa on the show Friday. “Say the Russians hacked only Mitt Romney and there was a lot of contact between the Obama administration and Russia. You'd have let that slide?”

“No,” Issa replied.

“So you're not gonna let this slide?” Maher asked.

“No,” Issa said.

Issa then replied that lawmakers would ask the House and Senate intelligence committees investigate.

Maher protested, saying there needed to be a special prosecutor — and that now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions should recuse himself “the same way former Attorney General Loretta Lynch recused herself” from an investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.

On Friday, The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration tried to enlist intelligence officials to counter news stories about Russia's ties with Trump's associates. Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned earlier this month over revelations about his potentially illegal contacts with the Russian ambassador to the United States and misleading senior officials.

[Iowa]

I saw Donald and Melania on the cartoon network playback last night.


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[AngryCanadian]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/25/top-republican-says-special-prosecutor-should-investigate-russian-meddling-in-trumps-election/?utm_term=.fa79a2365c84

Ah yes FAKE NEWS washingtonpost.

[Zippyjuan]

"Fake news" is so yesterday already. Just means you don't like what they say.

[pcosmar]

"Fake news" is so yesterday already. Just means you don't like what they say.

How's your drought?

[klamath]

Ah yes FAKE NEWS washingtonpost. Take your choice. https://www.google.com/#tbm=nws&q=darrell+issa+special+prosecutor+fox+news&* This is why "Fake News" is now a joke.

[Marenco]

"Fake news" is so yesterday already. Just means you don't like what they say.

How about junk news?

[CPUd]

GOP Intel chair Burr under fire over ties to Trump
The senator running the Russia probe was a vocal Trump campaign backer, once boasting he sicced the FBI on Hillary Clinton.


On the campaign trail last fall, GOP Sen. Richard Burr told North Carolina voters there was no "separation” between himself and Donald Trump. The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman also bragged about his role in getting the FBI to investigate Hillary Clinton’s emails.

Now, the third-term senator is under fire for running interference for the White House last week on a news report asserting repeated contacts between Trump’s campaign and Moscow. And some Democrats are wondering whether Burr, who also served as a national security adviser to Trump’s campaign, is too close to Trump to lead an impartial investigation.


These Democrats are weighing whether to be more vocal about their concerns in a bid to pressure GOP leaders to create a more independent select committee or outside commission to handle the investigation.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Monday that Burr had been put “on notice” by Democrats and that his decision to help the White House rebut negative news stories "certainly gives the appearance, if not the reality, of a lack of impartiality." Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said over the weekend he had “grave concerns” about Burr’s conduct.

Even two intelligence committee Republicans — Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Susan Collins of Maine — made statements over the weekend that the investigation must be seen as credible. Collins said members of the panel must “avoid any actions that might be perceived as compromising the integrity of our work.”

Burr’s allies, though, defend him as a man of integrity perfectly suited for the task ahead.

“I know him to be honest, and I know him to be thorough,” said John Bryant, a lawyer in Raleigh who’s been friends with Burr since they played football together at Wake Forest. “I don’t think it would be a political problem if coming down hard on [Trump] is the right thing to do.”

Paul Shumaker, a North Carolina political consultant who ran Burr’s successful campaign last year for a third term, said Burr does not plan to run for reelection again and has been freed from political considerations as he pursues the truth behind Russia’s involvement in the presidential election.

“He is independent of the shackles of a reelection campaign,” Shumaker said of the laid-back senator, famous on Capitol Hill for driving a beat-up 1974 Volkswagen Thing.

Shumaker added that Burr puts his job as intelligence chairman above anything else, including politics — a reference to the heat Burr took last year for doing little campaigning until the final month before Election Day, even though his race was expected to be close.

“He told me that there are going to be times when you are going to have to run this campaign without a candidate,” said Shumaker, who’s been Burr’s chief political strategist since he was first elected to the House in 1994 after a career at a lawn and garden equipment company. “I know this is a guy who was willing to sacrifice his own reelection if need be to do that job as chairman.”

Burr, 61, became intelligence chairman after Republicans retook control of the Senate in 2015, succeeding Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). He has been a staunch advocate for the intelligence community, defending its surveillance programs and the controversial interrogation methods used by the CIA under President George W. Bush. The senator, whose office declined an interview request, has also sought to prevent the full version of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s exhaustive report on CIA torture from ever being released. In 2014 he told reporters, "I personally don’t believe that anything that goes on in the Intelligence Committee should ever be discussed publicly."

“Sen. Burr has committed himself to the selfless oversight of the intelligence community since he served in the House of Representatives,” said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “He is a very capable leader on a vital committee who will conduct a professional responsible review of Russian interference into our elections.”
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/richard-burr-donald-trump-north-carolina-235319

[Brian4Liberty]

CNN must be disappointed.

Not in the slightest. To counter this, they televised pretty much an entire press conference by Adam Schiff ("Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence") where he repeated every rumor, innuendo and accusation about "Russian collusion". It must have been on for almost an hour.

[Dr.3D]

How about junk news?
Or perhaps, slanted news?

I can just see it now... "We slant it the way we want it to be."

[UWDude]

"Fake news" is so yesterday already. Just means you don't like what they say.

Looks like Zippy is just parroting Trump.

Now it is VERY fake news.