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2017-09-02 Home Front: Politix

Congressional Intelligence Committees - Klingon Handmaidens ?

[Daily Beast - 22 Aug 17] If the Senate intelligence committee gets its way, America’s spy agencies will have to release a flood of information about Russian threats to the U.S.--the kind of threats that Donald Trump may not want made public.

The committee also wants Congress to declare WikiLeaks a "non-state hostile intelligence service," which would open Julian Assange and the pro-transparency organization ‐ which most of the U.S. government considers a handmaiden of Russian intelligence ‐ to new levels of surveillance.

On Friday, the committee quietly published its annual intelligence authorization, a bill that ble$$e$ the next year’$ worth of intelligence operation$. The bill passed the committee late last month on a 14-1 vote, with Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon as the lone dissenter, owing to what he calls the "legal, constitutional and policy implications" that the WikiLeaks provision may entail.

Among the bill’s major provisions are requirements for the intelligence community to release major public reports into Russian threats to U.S. elections, Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, Moscow’s influence operations, Russian money laundering in the U.S., and more. In short, the Senate committee intends to do a lot more about Russia than investigate its involvement in the 2016 presidential race ‐ namely, box the Trump administration into a more assertive response to Russian aggression.

Impetus for posting found at Liberty Blitzkrieg

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-02 08:05|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 The Russia thing is so.... yesterday, can't we just move on ?

Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued subpoenas seeking testimony from executives who worked on a campaign organized by Paul Manafort – including the Podesta Group — an NBC exclusive report published Friday revealed.

The Podesta Group, co-founded by John Podesta, who was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, was one of six lobbying firms that worked on Manafort’s campaign to get Ukraine into the European Union between 2012 to 2014 – a fact buried in the ninth paragraph of NBC’s report.
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-02 08:26|| 2017-09-02 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Congressional Intelligence Committees

What's a double oxymoron called?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-02 14:42|| 2017-09-02 14:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Dioxymoron?

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-09-02 16:36|| 2017-09-02 16:36|| Front Page Top

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