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Friday, February 02, 2018

Oh, Right -- the Memo

Well, it's been released (you can find the full memo at this post by Joe.My.God.), and, as I expected, it's a big nothingburger. Even Trey "Benghazi" Gowdy thinks it's a bad joke.



John McCain wasn't nearly so nice:

The latest attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests – no party’s, no president’s, only Putin’s. The American people deserve to know all of the facts surrounding Russia’s ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation must proceed unimpeded. Our nation’s elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows. If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin’s job for him.

And as we might expect, former FBI director James Comey had a few choice words:

“That’s it?” Comey said on Twitter.

“Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what?” Comey wrote, adding: “DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.”

If the real press is doing it's job, this should give Trump, the GOP, and Devin Nunes a big black eye. If.

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