BREAKING: Transcript of House Intel Committee debate on Nunes Memo released

[brooklynite]

http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180129/106822/HMTG-115-IG00-Transcript-20180129.pdf

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THE CHAIRMAN: Do any members wish to be heard?

MR. SCHIFF: Mr. Chairman, I seek permission to address the committee.

THE CHAIRMAN: Yes, Mr. Schiff, you are recognized for 5 minutes.

MR. SCHIFF: Thanks, Mr. Chairman.

I want t.o begin by expressing my alarm at where we are in this committee.

I have served on the committee for 10 years now. This is the first time we have sought to declassify highly sensitive information for a political reason. It is, I think, a terrible line to cross.

The memoranda which the majority will seek to make public today contains any number of misleading representations and factual problems.

The FBI has sought to appear before our committee to have an opportunity to fully inform members of the underlying circumstances and address any concerns that members have before we take the step -- which the Department of Justice has, I think, all too accurately described as extraordinarily reckless -- to publicly release classified information that affects investigative equities and could
potentially reveal sources and methods.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

1. K&R nt

[BadgerMom]

2. K and R

[ehrnst]

3. Adam Schiff is a goddamned hero.

That is all.

[rtracey]

15. not just a hero

but I think we should call him Mr President...

[Hortensis]

18. Uhhh, how about a man doing the job he signed up for?

And others doing the same merely people whose names aren't being labeled up front for us?

There are still such things as duty, principle, integrity, of course, and to call people heroic for merely being guided by them surely diminishes them all? And would drop our standard into the Republican gutter?

Let's call this what it is: Normal, expected behavior in this situation.

[dchill]

22. That being said, it still makes him an exception.

[Hortensis]

24. Schiff is not an exception among DEMOCRATS!

It's the REPUBLICANS who are shocking the planet with their astonishing collapse into complete corruption and even possible sedition and treason. Not to confuse who's who.

Schiff happens to be at this point in history the ranking Democrat on the house intelligence committee, and that is why he is the one in front of the cameras speaking for all 9 of them.

But since our Democrats in congress are fighting for democracy, let's agree they are engaged in truly heroic battle.

[byronius]

4. Schiff has become the voice of the Rule Of Law.

[orangecrush]

5. Extraordinary

This is not at all normal, and Schiff is calling it what it is.

[BobTheSubgenius]

7. Schiff and compatriots are doing a great service, no doubt about it.

It's also amusing to me that Nunes' extraordinary ineptitude is instrumental in creating his current predicament. He is a complete tool in general and a toadying boob in this situation.

Welcome to DU!

[Hortensis]

25. He and most others are probably classic "authoritarian followers."

Wish I knew the term those studying them now use, but for obvious reasons they're keeping their heads down behind arcane and highly technical language.

[mountain grammy]

8. K&R and a big thumbs up for Adam Schiff

Thank you, sir.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. Kr

[Mr. Ected]

10. How magnanimous of them to offer Schiff all of 5 minutes to voice his rebuttal

And still yet, Schiff carved up the beast with his steely knives.

We are so fortunate to have him on our team. He'll make a GREAT attorney general some day.

[bluestarone]

11. 100% agree

[onecent]

12. OMG...I just came back here to see what was happening.....

Thanks the Lord For Adam Schiff.

[riversedge]

26. Schiff is a treasure to the USA.

[marieo1]

13. minngal

He should be our next President!!!

[Glimmer of Hope]

14. Thank you Mr. Schiff.

I would sleep well at night if he was in charge of everything.

[DeminPennswoods]

16. If Dems could pick a bumbling R to

collude with Trump et al in trying to undermine Mueller, they'd pick Nunes hands down. He couldn't collude to organize a 1 horse parade.

[JDC]

17. KR

[Amimnoch]

19. Go ahead tRumpublicon dipshits. Set this precedent.

Be ready for our own release come 2019 with the newly seated Democratic Party Congress.

All I’ve got to say is.. I damn well hope when we have the majority again, we play by the rules they set the groundwork for.

[Tatiana]

20. Thanks, Mr. Schiff for reminding everyone that they let Lewandowski dodge his interview.

Swallwell and Quigley are also impressive.

[Skittles]

21. Adam Schiff continues to impress me greatly

go Adam!

[Cha]

23. KICK!

[democratisphere]

27. Glad Adam Schiff is here to fight the desperate redumbliCON insanity.

Adam Schiff is my pick for POTUS in 2020! This guy is a strong leader!

[VOX]

28. Schiff is a badass. Never mess with the seemingly quiet and introspective guy.

Because, as the transcripts clearly reveal, the “seemingly quiet, introspective guy” is the one who will go to the distance and more, dogging you, calling you out, seeing the larger picture, and who will no doubt play some yet-unknown but essential role in your eventual downfall.

[Mc Mike]

29. Repugs vote lockstep to say that the FBI and intel wronged the arch criminal traitor, D rump.

He probably ought to fire every investigator and counterintel employee who ever said the words 'tRump' and 'Russia' in the same sentence. I mean, he obviously has no choice, right?