House Intel Announces Open Hearing On Counter Intel Aspects Of Mueller Report

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks at a press conference discussing today's release of the redacted Mueller report on April 18, 2019. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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On the heels of the House Judiciary Committee launch of a hearing series on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, the House Intelligence Committee announced on Friday its own open hearing on the report’s first volume, which focused on Russia’s 2016 efforts.

The hearing, scheduled for Wednesday morning, is titled “Lessons from the Mueller Report: Counterintelligence Implications of Volume 1.”

The committee has not announced specific witnesses yet, but said in a press release that, over the course of a series of hearings, it will hear from “fact witnesses, national security experts, and others connected to the Special Counsel’s investigation to elucidate the issues and findings in the first volume of the report.”

The committee previously held a public hearing on Russia’s use of oligarchs and money to influence politics, but that hearing occurred before the public Mueller report was released.

“Since the release of the Mueller report, the American public has learned much about the President’s conduct, his campaign’s interactions with Russia and that nation’s interference in our election and affairs,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said. “The evidence has been both criminal and non-criminal, and implicated deep counterintelligence concerns over the potential compromise of U.S. persons. Our Committee’s goal will be to explain to the American people the serious counterintelligence concerns raised by the Mueller Report, examine the depth and breadth of the unethical and unpatriotic conduct it describes, and produce prescriptive remedies to ensure that this never happens again.”

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  1. "Our Committee’s goal will be to explain to the American people the serious counterintelligence concerns raised by the Mueller Report, examine the depth and breadth of the unethical and unpatriotic conduct it describes, and produce prescriptive remedies to ensure that this never happens again.”

    The committee's goal is to serve notice to Bob Barr he can piss off when alleging the origins of the FBI's and intelligence community's concerns were overblown, leading to an unneeded and possibly illegal investigation and attempted coup of Trump. That's what the hearings will reveal, and that's why they're being held.
  2. Going to get real interesting when Barr and Trump start attempting to prevent witnesses Schiff calls from testifying. Especially lower level FBI and intelligence people called for no other reason than to confirm basic, noncontroversial facts and timelines.

  3. Off Topic but…

    BREAKING not the NEWS!!!

    Jesus, who has not generally been active on Facebook, made a rare appearance on the social network on Monday to announce His decision to ignore the presumptive Republican nominee’s request for a personal relationship with Him.

    In a brief post, Jesus offered the following explanation: “Just everything.”

    Trump’s Bid to Become Born-Again Fails as Jesus Turns Down Friend Request

  4. OT:
    Mohamed Noor was just sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison for the Justine Damond shooting.

    I thought he’d get 8 years max.
    On another note, just 3 days after he was convicted in court, the city of Minneapolis settled with her family for 20 million.
    If the cop wasn’t black and a Muslim, I’d feel some satisfaction. I don’t, because when the next white cop shoots a black person, everything will revert to normal.

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