Sunday, February 4, 2018

FISA Memo Charge and Response

If you watch legacy media and their progeny local news then you hear a lot of back and forth discussions with claims intended to cloud the issue and confound discussions away from the television. Your best move is avoid the news and avoid the discussions but often that is not possible.

The U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has kindly and patiently collected the charges and claims and patiently responded to each in logical reasoned fashion. Here is a good page to bookmark on your phones should you find yourself unhappily engaged in such a discussion. It is a perfect six-page "talk to the hand."

The charge is printed in a gray box and beneath it the response attached in its own box.

Example


Here is the link. Very good reading, I must say.

To all other charges you can put on your tinny mechanical robot voice and say, "I-r-r-r-relevant." 


8 comments:

Leland said...

I think a big one is the correction on reading underlying material. Essentially members were being blocked from reading the material, and only a select few were allowed. I'm getting a little pissed at this notion Congress isn't supposed to have oversight, and can so easily be blocked from doing so.

This whole thing is only strengthening my opinion that we need a more limited government.

Some Seppo said...

In other FBI "news", the NYT *spit* posted an Op/Ed by a "rank and file" FBI agent whining that big old meanie Trump made him resign. Except that the guy is a middle manager, not "rank and file" and he gave $1000 to a California Dem in 2016.

"I am reluctantly turning in my badge and leaving an organization I love," Josh Campbell, a former supervisory special agent

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/leaving-the-fbi.html?mtrref=undefined&assetType=opinion

A supervisory special agent is a specific job within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It gives them with the responsibility of leading teams of special agents in investigations. It requires them to report directly to managing and executive special agents.

(Via the Googleplex)

But upon searching the Federal Elections Commission database, one comes upon this little tidbit:

CAMPBELL, JOSHUA LOS ANGELES CA 90024 FBI SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT
BASS, KAREN VIA KAREN BASS FOR CONGRESS 02/09/2016 1000.00 201604159012533739

CAMPBELL, JOSHUA LOS ANGELES CA 90024 FBI SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT
CASTRO, JOAQUIN VIA CASTRO FOR CONGRESS 11/30/2014 250.00 15970019512

http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/qind/

Rabel said...

"Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) is a former supervisory special agent with the F.B.I. who served as a counterterrorism investigator and special assistant to the bureau’s director."

Timeline would indicate that the director to whom he was a special assistant was Comey. Neither the article nor the Times mentioned this apparently pertinent fact.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Thank you, Chip. You are awesome.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Sessions must go.

Leland said...

I'm not sure is Sessions must go, but if he is forever referenced as "chump"; I think it would be fair.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

In order to clean house, we don't need a chump at the helm.

Methadras said...

I've said it once and I'll say it again, never hire a senator to manage anyone or anything. They are the worst bureau-weenies this country can produce. There instinctual need to stay out of the line of fire of controversy is legendary and Sessions proved that he is neither capable or has the balls to stand up, remove his recusal, and take charge or something that is erroneous and false, like this special counsel. Rosenstein is a special kind of snake and Sessions recusal put this guy in a position of power that was unwarranted.