In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called for Twitter and Facebook to conduct an investigation into whether Russian troll accounts had fueled the rise of the hashtag as part of a broader campaign.
An excerpt from the letter states: “If these reports are accurate, we are witnessing an ongoing attack by the Russian government through Kremlin-linked social media actors.”
The memo itself is classified and is under the control of the House Intelligence Committee which voted yesterday on whether the memo should be declassified and released to the public.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a member of the Intel Committee stated publicly: (the memo) contains allegations of government abuses so shocking that they may be “worse than Watergate”.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Cal), ranking Democrat on the committee is reported as saying the the memo is misleading and complicated and that the public would not understand it.
According to Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) the House Intelligence committee will hold a vote on the release of the memo. He states that the memo reveals systematic corruption within the DOJ and FBI; including the unlawful use of FISA-702(16)(17) data searches which were part of an elaborate DOJ-FBI surveillance program on the political campaign of candidate Donald Trump.
Now there are news reports that the FBI has “lost” 5 months worth of text messages immediately prior to the naming of Mueller as Special Counsel.
The drum beat continues for release of the Nunes memo but care must be taken to assure that the correct process is followed that allows the larger story to come out without providing political cover for those intent on hiding the corruption. Immediate release might give instant gratification but would prove disastrous in the long-term.
IF we have top officials from various government agencies willing to depose an elected president, what else would they do?
Think of some of the shocking events that have happened. Would they dare?
And consider the progressives’ motto “by any means necessary”.
I believe that many citizens are either unconscious or unwilling to face what might be exposed by releasing the Nunes memo but, if done correctly to avoid shielding wrongdoers, we should remember these words from Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention -March 23, 1775; ” For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and the provide for it.”
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