Issa: ‘Fair’ For Trump To ‘Cast Doubt’ On US Intel That Russia Meddled In Election

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 1: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., arrives for the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on "An Insiders Look at the North Korean Regime" on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said Monday that it was “fair” for President Donald Trump “to cast doubt” on the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election while Trump stood next to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a joint press conference Monday.

Referencing FBI agent Peter Strzok’s recent congressional testimony, and the “downgrading of Hillary Clinton’s criminal activity,” Issa said “for the President to cast doubt is not unreasonable.”

At the same time, he said, “we take those charges seriously, and so I personally would neither rule in nor rule out the validity of a very interesting and odd-timed indictment of people who can never be brought to justice, and for whom there’s even a question of, how do we know? Did we use spy technique in order to find out? Did we hack them in order to find out who they were?”

Issa called Putin “evil” and Russia an “adverse entity to the United States.”

“We don’t extradite our spies,” Issa said, asked if he was upset Trump didn’t ask Putin to hand over the 12 Russian intelligence officers recently charged in the course of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. “And vice versa,” he added.

“At the same time,” he said, “I want to see the information in those indictments go forward.”

“Let’s flesh this out and see if it’s real,” he added.

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  1. Is that a mirror he’s standing in front of? Because I don’t see any reflection. I’m not saying he’s a vampire, I simply think it’s fair to raise doubts about whether he’s a living human being or some sort of undead entity.

  2. “Let’s flesh this out and see if it’s real,” he added."

    From what I am seeing about, today is going to strain a lot of sacred cows. I figure Issa’s is wearing a truss at the moment.

  3. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    Issa is a contemptuous idiot!

  4. This too
    Just another run of the mill traitor who got cash from Russia

  5. Sure–it’s “fair” to question US intelligence. But to do so in public, at the side of a pretty-clearly-obvious adversary?

    What on earth??

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