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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
You're right. Trump seems to be politicising the security services, which is no good thing.
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Where has he politicised them exactly ?
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Originally Posted by Hugh
I wonder why the entire Intel Committee, including Republicans, voted to release it then?
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Which is a stark contrast to the fact that ALL the Democrat Senators voted to block the GOP one, bleating on about National Security when even theirs contained more sensitive information. The GOP one really was not that staggering, already confirmed stuff already known.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Actually, they said that portions of the Democratic memo would raise national security or law enforcement concerns if released publicly, nothing about compromising safety.
They also had concerns about the Republican memo, but that got released by Trump.
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There was no sources and methods in the GOP Memo and it was only 4 pages long, Schiff's was 10 pages long.
I read their letter pretty much as it was released last night.
It was not them who mentioned safety, if I recall it was a Republican Congressman who had commented on the release of names in the footnotes that could compromise safety and security of these people.
The bottom line is, Schiff left the sources and methods in his memo on purpose, knowing Trump would have no choice but to block it's release.
Schiff is a dodgy character and is suspected of leaking closed door testimony when Donald Trump Jnr, was giving evidence, he excused himself and left the hearing, moments later, CNN was discussing stuff raised from that hearing that was still in session...
The other issue here is that the Democrats could just be trying to save face, after all, the allegations of collusion and the dossier implicates the DNC in wrong doing during an election...