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riversedge

(70,240 posts) Thu Feb 15, 2018, 07:31 PM Feb 2018

Senate Intel Chair Burr steers clear of House counterpart Nunes in Russia probe (but NRA owns him)

Senate Intel Chair Burr steers clear of House counterpart Nunes in Russia probe

http://www.cnn.com/2018/02/13/politics/russia-investigation-congress-richard-burr-devin-nunes/index.html

CNN Digital Expansion DC Manu Raju
Jeremy Herb

By Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb, CNN

Updated 6:57 PM ET, Tue February 13, 2018

(CNN)Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr publicly and privately is sending a message to his colleagues: He doesn't want to be like Devin Nunes.

Burr has taken a series of steps over the last several months to make sure that his committee doesn't devolve into the intense, partisan bickering that has consumed the House Intelligence Committee. And he has privately told confidants and members of the Senate Intelligence Committee he has no desire to emulate the House chairman's tactics that have become a distraction to the Russia probe -- while taking pains to avoid publicly discussing the Nunes memo alleging wrongdoing by the Justice Department over how it obtained a surveillance warrant on a Trump adviser.

But Burr has bluntly said he doesn't think Nunes' memo had to be made public.

"I don't think there was any need for a memo to be released," the North Carolina Republican said in the Capitol............................

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Senate Intel Chair Burr steers clear of House counterpart Nunes in Russia probe (but NRA owns him) (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2018 OP

The NRA has a simple and straightforward agenda and job, protect gun SALES and profits. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #1

see this tweet.... NRA groups have spent nearly $7 million on behalf of Burr. riversedge Feb 2018 #2

The rest of the world is in shock that we allow the NRA to exist ... Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #3

It's time for people to get out of the NRA. the NRA is a pro murdering organization. rockfordfile Feb 2018 #4

This world wide wally Feb 2018 #5

Eliot Rosewater

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1. The NRA has a simple and straightforward agenda and job, protect gun SALES and profits.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Feb 15, 2018, 07:34 PM

Feb 2018

They dont actually care about individuals, just company profits.

Which makes me wonder what would they do if I could somehow get elected president and pass a budget that includes funds to buy an AR-15 for every American POC, Muslim and Latino.