When Mollie Hemingway corroborates and expands on assertions by your humble correspondents at V’pac, readers can be assured that, if the story is important, and real, they will get an early heads-up from us, hopefully to alert, inform, and inspire an expression of opinion from our readers.
On Wednesday we rather ‘unkindly’ reported on a story involving Richard Burr, a Republican (?) senator, who, because the GOP owns the Senate majority, at least for now, is Chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence committee (SSIC).
In our opinion, that committee may be the most corrupt in the Senate, and Richard Burr may well be the most corrupt Republican senator in a long time. (Note we said the SSIC may be the most corrupt in the Senate…not in all of Congress; as long the House has Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, and most of the other Democrat leadership, Senate corruption can’t come close to being the most.)
Ms. Hemingway’s column appears in Thursday’s Federalist.
Senate Intel Committee Still Running Interference For Russia Collusion Nonsense The report is yet another reminder of how the committee helped Democrats and other critics of President Donald Trump perpetuate the now-debunked theory that Trump was a secret Russian agent.
If our piece (“Barr ought to be investigating certain Senate Intelligence Committee members) in Wednesdays V’pac, left our readers with any questions as to why we made certain assertions, Hemingway’s column likely answers all of them.
It is long but well-written, deeply sourced, and both intriguing and scary as to just how much corruption is rampant in the US Congress and how much damage it is doing to our great country!.
Some highlights from Mollie Hemingway’s column:
– “A year after Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded there was no evidence President Trump colluded with Russians to steal the 2016 election, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued its fourth of five reports in a slow-moving and muted investigation into the same matter. While the committee asserted in July 2018 that it agreed with a disputed Obama-era finding on Russia’s motivation for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, its highly redacted report on the intelligence community’s January 2017 claim was finally released Tuesday morning.
– “The report is yet another reminder of how the committee helped Democrats and other critics of President Donald Trump perpetuate the now-debunked theory that Trump was a secret Russian agent. The Senate’s Intelligence Committee is ostensibly chaired by Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican who is currently avoiding questions about why he dumped stocks after receiving private briefings about coronavirus threats.
– “With Nunes closing in on the bank records that would reveal this elaborate ploy, the information was given to friendly reporters at the Washington Post. It likely would have never been made public if not for the tenacious work by Nunes and HPSCI.
– “But perhaps their biggest achievement was to fight tooth and nail to reveal abuse of the FISA process. While the inspector general has now not just corroborated what the House committee found about tremendous abuse of the process, but added to it, there was a time the conventional wisdom in D.C. was that there were no concerns with the process.
– “Burr helped form that consensus, joining with Schiff and activists in the media to strongly defend the Department of Justice’s applications to spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page. He told media outlets he saw nothing wrong with the applications and that there were “sound reasons” to spy on Page. The media used this statement to further peddle the collusion narrative.”
– “Whereas HPSCI members clearly thought oversight of out-of-control intelligence agencies was their job, Burr has always asserted his primary concern isn’t truth so much as to maintain bipartisanship. It is the central feature of his committee, the feature most praised by corporate media, and results in a de facto leadership by Democrats.
– “This emphasis on bipartisanship reached its most ridiculous point when Burr said he had no problem with text messages that came out showing Warner talking to Adam Waldman, an attorney for Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch. The texts showed Warner trying to arrange a back channel communication with Christopher Steele, the foreign operative who put together a dossier of anti-Trump claims sourced to Russian officials and other questionable characters.”
