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Rep. Gerry Connolly on Monday reacted with shock and horror to President Donald Trump's tweet that seemingly called on Republicans to stop Rep. Adam Schiff from releasing a memo that debunks many of the claims put forth by a memo released last week by Rep. Devin Nunes . During a CNN interview, Connolly was asked to respond to the president's tweet, in which he declared that "Little Adam Schiff must be stopped."
President Donald Trump jabbed the House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat Monday as Democrats push to release a memo expected to rebut a Republican document of alleged FBI surveillance abuses. "Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. more > Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are pushing to vote on Monday to release a rebuttal to a controversial GOP document declassified last Friday that alleges the FBI committed surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election.
President Donald Trump Monday praised House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes on Twitter for his work on a memo alleging FBI abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, calling him "a brave man of tremendous courage and grit." Representative Devin Nunes, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure! His tweet popped more than hour after Nunes appeared on Fox News' "Fox & Friends," where he said Democrats are working hard against him and his memo to keep the truth from coming out about Hillary Clinton's campaign, and also because they have nothing to back up their narrative of collusion between Trump and Russia.
US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as they arrive for a dinner at Trump International Golf Club in in West Palm Beach on January 14. Washington President Donald Trump was wrong to assert that a GOP-produced classified memo on FBI surveillance powers cleared him in the Russia investigation, Democratic and Republican lawmakers said on Sunday. Democrats could seek a vote on publicly releasing their rebuttal memo when the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee meets late on Monday afternoon.
The Devin Nunes memo may have been a dud, but it did reveal one major issue: Politicians feel more than fine destroying trust in our institutions. For weeks, we have been sold the idea that a "memo" written by Republican staffers of the House Select Committee on Intelligence was a damning piece of evidence of political bias in the intelligence-gathering process.
President Richard Nixon's unprecedented misuse of federal resources to spy on political and activist groups 40 years ago prompted the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , which requires federal agencies to obtain warrants for investigations involving U.S. citizens. Signed into law in 1978, FISA was created in an effort inject accountability into the act of federal spying on American citizens after past abuses.
One of the things of which Donald Trump reassured his supporters during his campaign rallies was that he--by virtue of being high profile and rich--knew all the best people, so that he could get things done that weren't being addressed by all those Washington insiders. Even without Michael Wolff's book, it's been increasingly apparent that Donald Trump was more heavily influenced by what he was watching on Fox News than actual intelligence coming in from the multitudes of intelligence agencies available to the president.
President Donald Trump was wrong to assert that a GOP-produced classified memo on FBI surveillance powers cleared him in the Russia probe, Democratic and Republican lawmakers said Sunday. They expressed hope that special counsel Robert Mueller's work would continue without interference.
The recently-released Republican memo alleging abuses of covert surveillance powers by the Justice Department and FBI to investigate a former member of President Trump's campaign team will not have "any impact on the Russia probe," said Republican Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. Gowdy, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was speaking on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday. He also said that even if the controversial Steele dossier didn't exist, that there would still be a Russia investigation.
GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina dismissed Democrats' criticisms of the recently released Republican memo detailing surveillance abuse within the FBI and Department of Justice, during an interview Sunday on "Face The Nation." "I get that Adam Schiff and others are worried about what's not in my memo," Gowdy said on "Face The Nation."
Carter Page Touted Kremlin Contacts in 2013 Letter - Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page bragged that he was an adviser to the Kremlin in a letter obtained by TIME that raises new questions about the extent of Page's contacts with the Russian government over the years. Answering 3 key questions about the House memo - It's fair to say that much of the media reaction to the House Intelligence Committee "FISA abuse" memo has been a mixture of scorn and ridicule.
Carter Page Touted Kremlin Contacts in 2013 Letter - Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page bragged that he was an adviser to the Kremlin in a letter obtained by TIME that raises new questions about the extent of Page's contacts with the Russian government over the years. Answering 3 key questions about the House memo - It's fair to say that much of the media reaction to the House Intelligence Committee "FISA abuse" memo has been a mixture of scorn and ridicule.
Carter Page Touted Kremlin Contacts in 2013 Letter - Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page bragged that he was an adviser to the Kremlin in a letter obtained by TIME that raises new questions about the extent of Page's contacts with the Russian government over the years.
President Donald Trump has claimed complete vindication from a congressional memo that alleges the FBI abused its surveillance powers during the investigation into his campaign's possible Russia ties. But the memo also includes revelations that might complicate efforts by Trump and his allies to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry.
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., center, speaks with Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, right, during a speech by President Donald Trump at the 2018 House and Senate Republican Member Conference at The Greenbrier, in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. The White House-orchestrated dissemination of a short advocacy piece authored by Trump loyalist Devin Nunes - the discredited Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee - was a poorly disguised attempt to blow smoke at the American people and derail a federal investigation into the president and his team that gives every appearance of gaining momentum.
Trump on Saturday falsely claimed that the memo "totally vindicates" him in special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe into whether his campaign colluded with Russia. House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, the California Republican whose committee drafted the memo, promised Friday on Fox News that more memos critical of US government agencies are coming.
Carter Page Touted Kremlin Contacts in 2013 Letter - Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page bragged that he was an adviser to the Kremlin in a letter obtained by TIME that raises new questions about the extent of Page's contacts with the Russian government over the years. Democratic rebuttal calls Nunes memo 'deliberately misleading' - WASHINGTON - A top House Democrat is challenging the core conclusion of the memo released by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Friday, calling the allegation that the Justice Department and FBI withheld key details Trump seized on what memo could mean even before reading it - WASHINGTON - Even before he'd read the memo, President Donald Trump seized on what it could mean.
Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page bragged that he was an adviser to the Kremlin in a letter obtained by Time that raises new questions about the extent of Page's contacts with the Russian government over the years. The letter, dated Aug. 25, 2013, was sent by Page to an academic press during a dispute over edits to an unpublished manuscript he had submitted for publication, according to an editor who worked with Page.