Daily Archives: February 2, 2018


Adam Schiff Just Ripped Paul Ryan And Devin Nunes A New One Over Memo

Politicususa has the article Adam Schiff Just Ripped Paul Ryan And Devin Nunes A New One Over Memo.

The Republican document mischaracterizes highly sensitive classified information that few Members of Congress have seen, and which Chairman Nunes himself chose not to review. It fails to provide vital context and information contained in DOJ’s FISA application and renewals, and ignores why and how the FBI initiated, and the Special Counsel has continued, its counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s election interference and links to the Trump campaign.

This is the way to discuss this controversy as opposed to trying to suppress information.

Here is another side to the story. I am not going to call it “the other side” as if there were only two ways to think about this Russiagate obsession.


Russiagate is Dangerous, Will Washington Get the Memo?

The Real News Network has the interview Russiagate is Dangerous, Will Washington Get the Memo?

The partisan fight over Rep. Devin Nunes’ memo is consuming Washington and even leading prominent liberals to question if Nunes is a Russian agent. Russia scholar Stephen F. Cohen of Princeton University says Russiagate has now become “much more than McCarthyism.”

This is not the first time I have posted items from Stephen Cohen. See my previous post Rethinking Putin: A Talk by Professor Stephen F. Cohen.


Nunes Memo That Claims FBI Conspiracy to Take Down Trump

Alternet has the article Read It: House GOP Releases Controversial Nunes Memo That Claims FBI Conspiracy to Take Down Trump.

House Republicans on Friday released a controversial memo written by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) that alleges a conspiracy within the FBI to bring down President Donald Trump.

You can read it for yourself. You can decide what of this memo you believe. If there are errors of fact in what Nunes says, then he can be rebutted. I doubt you will incur serious brain damage if you read what he has written.

When will the powers that be understand that trying to suppress documents is counterproductive? There is a reason why our founding ancestors thought we needed a First Amendment to the Constitution. You have to wonder if the powers that be understand why we have the First Amendment.

Always remember Greenberg’s Law Of Counterproductive Behavior.

If you see a behavior that seems to you to be counterproductive, perhaps you have misunderstood what that behavior is meant to produce.