JimofPennsylvan
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Today, the front and center issue on the subject of whether or not there was collusion between President Trump's Presidential campaign and Russia on Russia's interference in the U.S.'s 2016 presidential election is whether the House's Intelligence Chairmen Devin Nunes staff's memo should be released. Calling for this release alone is like giving someone a piece of cutting edge technology but withholding the instruction manual on how to put it together and use it! Calling for this release alone is like a prosecutor's office charging someone with a crime but not telling the defendant the date, time and nature of the incident which the criminal charges are based!
The proponents of releasing the memorandum want to do so because Chairman Nunez's staff apparently laid out a case where the FBI obtained one or more FISA (Foreign Intelligent Surveillance Act) warrants on insufficient evidence they unduly relied on this memo written by a former U.K. intelligence officer on candidate Donald Trump's Russian contacts. To be krass these proponents with this effort are trying to prove the FBI went off the reservation, they went rogue, they ignored the rule of law and embarked on this agenda to try to destroy the President Trump presidential campaign and presidency! Maybe I watch too many movies where good triumphs over evil and I expect it in real life or I am old school I guess and believe that the principle of fairness should prevail in America. It just seems to me that if the powers that be are going to be "fair and just" and want to release a document alleging that the FBI got a warrant on insufficient grounds that the FBI did not have the legally required evidence to get the FISA warrants they should be releasing the "application(s) for the warrants in question" in conjunction with releasing the Nunes staff's memo. This would allow the American people to evaluate accurately the Nunez's staff's memo allegations against the FBI and determine if they are legitimate. Considering that the stakes on the table here is only the reputation of America's premier law enforcement agency, the FBI, the elected officials behind this move might want to make sure all the facts are put on the table for the American people to examine!
The proponents of releasing the memorandum want to do so because Chairman Nunez's staff apparently laid out a case where the FBI obtained one or more FISA (Foreign Intelligent Surveillance Act) warrants on insufficient evidence they unduly relied on this memo written by a former U.K. intelligence officer on candidate Donald Trump's Russian contacts. To be krass these proponents with this effort are trying to prove the FBI went off the reservation, they went rogue, they ignored the rule of law and embarked on this agenda to try to destroy the President Trump presidential campaign and presidency! Maybe I watch too many movies where good triumphs over evil and I expect it in real life or I am old school I guess and believe that the principle of fairness should prevail in America. It just seems to me that if the powers that be are going to be "fair and just" and want to release a document alleging that the FBI got a warrant on insufficient grounds that the FBI did not have the legally required evidence to get the FISA warrants they should be releasing the "application(s) for the warrants in question" in conjunction with releasing the Nunes staff's memo. This would allow the American people to evaluate accurately the Nunez's staff's memo allegations against the FBI and determine if they are legitimate. Considering that the stakes on the table here is only the reputation of America's premier law enforcement agency, the FBI, the elected officials behind this move might want to make sure all the facts are put on the table for the American people to examine!
