Intel Committee News: no direct evidence

[beagleboy]

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-stunn ... lly-right/


On Tuesday, Intelligence and national security correspondent for NBC News Ken Dilanian reported the somewhat breaking news to MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson that the Senate Intelligence Committee admits it has found, after two years, “no direct evidence” of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. The report met surprise first, then skepticism, with Jackson and her guests.

“After two years and interviewing more than 200 witnesses, the Senate intelligence Committee has not uncovered any direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia,” said Dilanian. “That’s according to sources on both the Republican and the Democratic side of the aisle.”

[Reservoir Dog]

This isn't very surprising considering the Republicans on the panel were asking deeply important questions like, "What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?" and "Do you know what year it is?" and "If Johnny has three apples and he eats one apple, how many apples does Johnny have?"

[AnalHamster]

Direct evidence has in fact been established. To claim the Trump campaign isn't linked at this point you would need to parse trump campaign and key officials working for the Trump campaign.

[CaptQuint]

The police have investigated themselves and found themselves innocent

[beagleboy]

Obviously the Russians also control each member of the Senate Intel Committee.
That's a lot of pee videos.

[AnalHamster]

Direct evidence has in fact been established. To claim the Trump campaign isn't linked at this point you would need to parse trump campaign and key officials working for the Trump campaign.

I guess the Senate Committee didnt contact you. What a huge omission on their part

Well if they ignored the Trump tower meeting and the stone indictment they have in fact made a pretty glaring omission, along with ignoring the simple fact that multiple high level trump campaign employees stand convicted right now.

[CHEEZY17]

So its not only the R's ignoring all of the evidence; apparently the Dims on the committee are ignoring it too. Sounds logical.

[beagleboy]

Kamala Harris should probably just end her campaign now.

[CaptQuint]

So its not only the R's ignoring all of the evidence; apparently the Dims on the committee are ignoring it too. Sounds logical.

Only the majority publishes a finding.

[CaptQuint]

Kamala Harris should probably just end her campaign now.

I don't think she will heed your advice

[Charliesheen]

“Well, we knew we would never find a signed contract.”

The new standard, apparently...

[CHEEZY17]

So its not only the R's ignoring all of the evidence; apparently the Dims on the committee are ignoring it too. Sounds logical.

Only the majority publishes a finding.

“After two years and interviewing more than 200 witnesses, the Senate intelligence Committee has not uncovered any direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia,” said Dilanian. “That’s according to sources on both the Republican and the Democratic side of the aisle.”

[CaptQuint]

So its not only the R's ignoring all of the evidence; apparently the Dims on the committee are ignoring it too. Sounds logical.

Only the majority publishes a finding.

“After two years and interviewing more than 200 witnesses, the Senate intelligence Committee has not uncovered any direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia,” said Dilanian. “That’s according to sources on both the Republican and the Democratic side of the aisle.”

After two years and 200 interviews, the Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching the end of its investigation into the 2016 election, having uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to both Democrats and Republicans on the committee.

But investigators disagree along party lines when it comes to the implications of a pattern of contacts they have documented between Trump associates and Russians — contacts that occurred before, during and after Russian intelligence operatives were seeking to help Donald Trump by leaking hacked Democratic emails and attacking his opponent, Hillary Clinton, on social media.

Sen. Mark Warner, D.-Va., ranking member of the committee, told reporters in the Capitol Tuesday that he disagrees with the way Burr characterized the evidence about collusion, but he declined to offer his own assessment.

"I'm not going to get into any conclusions I have," he said, before adding that "there's never been a campaign in American history ... that people affiliated with the campaign had as many ties with Russia as the Trump campaign did."

Democratic Senate investigators who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity did not dispute Burr's characterizations, but said they lacked context.

"We were never going to find a contract signed in blood saying, 'Hey Vlad, we're going to collude,'" one Democratic aide said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... gn-n970536

[CaptQuint]

Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are pushing back on a claim by the panel’s chair, Richard Burr (R-N.C.), that the committee’s two-year investigation has not found “anything that would suggest there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.” And they dispute an NBC News report saying that Democrats agreed with Burr that they have yet to see clear evidence of a conspiracy between President Donald Trump and Moscow.

“That’s not true,” Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats, told Mother Jones. “I think it’s misleading. The intelligence committee hasn’t discussed the matter, let alone released a committee report.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), a senior Democrat on the panel, and Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the committee, also said they have not reached any conclusions about their investigation. “I disagree,” Warner said Tuesday when asked about Burr’s claims.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... collusion/

[Geist]

I thought Devin Nunes put these rumours to bed a long time ago

[CaptQuint]

When Trump's national security adviser Michael T. Flynn resigned after it was revealed that he had misled the Trump administration about his communication with Russian officials, Nunes said he would not seek to investigate Flynn's ties to Russia Nunes said, "From everything that I can see, his conversations with the Russian ambassador — he was doing this country a favor, and he should be thanked for it."