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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear House Intelligence Committee, this is what you need to do:
The snip below does NOT do this article justice. I highly recommend following the link and reading the entire article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/opinion/what-to-ask-about-russian-hacking.html
What to Ask About Russian Hacking
By LOUISE MENSCHMARCH 17, 2017
...snip
It should be relatively easy to get at the truth of whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia over the hacking. I have some relevant experience. When I was a member of Parliament in Britain, I took part in a select committee investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News Corporation. Today, as a New York-based journalist (who, in fact, now works at News Corp.), I have followed the Russian hacking story closely. In November, I broke the story that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court had issued a warrant that enabled the F.B.I. to examine communications between U.S. persons in the Trump campaign relating to Russia-linked banks.
So, I have some ideas for how the House committee members should proceed. If I were Adam Schiff, the leading Democrat on the committee, I would demand to see the following witnesses: Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Richard Burt, Erik Prince, Dan Scavino, Brad Parscale, Roger Stone, Corey Lewandowski, Boris Epshteyn, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Flynn, Michael Flynn Jr., Felix Sater, Dmitry Rybolovlev, Michael Cohen, Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Robert and Rebekah Mercer, Stephen Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, Michael Anton, Julia Hahn and Stephen Miller, along with executives from Cambridge Analytica, Alfa Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and Spectrum Health.
...snip
The framing of the committees questions matters immensely. Legally, witnesses cannot confirm or deny even the existence of a current national security investigation. The very mention of a FISA warrant would allow Mr. Sessions to avoid the substance by excusing himself from commenting. Committee members must therefore word their questions without reference to any case. I would simply ask Mr. Sessions this:
Was the presidents tweet about a wiretap at Trump Tower, to your knowledge, illegal? If so, to whom have you reported this offense?
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/opinion/what-to-ask-about-russian-hacking.html
By LOUISE MENSCHMARCH 17, 2017
...snip
It should be relatively easy to get at the truth of whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia over the hacking. I have some relevant experience. When I was a member of Parliament in Britain, I took part in a select committee investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News Corporation. Today, as a New York-based journalist (who, in fact, now works at News Corp.), I have followed the Russian hacking story closely. In November, I broke the story that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court had issued a warrant that enabled the F.B.I. to examine communications between U.S. persons in the Trump campaign relating to Russia-linked banks.
So, I have some ideas for how the House committee members should proceed. If I were Adam Schiff, the leading Democrat on the committee, I would demand to see the following witnesses: Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Richard Burt, Erik Prince, Dan Scavino, Brad Parscale, Roger Stone, Corey Lewandowski, Boris Epshteyn, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Flynn, Michael Flynn Jr., Felix Sater, Dmitry Rybolovlev, Michael Cohen, Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Robert and Rebekah Mercer, Stephen Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, Michael Anton, Julia Hahn and Stephen Miller, along with executives from Cambridge Analytica, Alfa Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and Spectrum Health.
...snip
The framing of the committees questions matters immensely. Legally, witnesses cannot confirm or deny even the existence of a current national security investigation. The very mention of a FISA warrant would allow Mr. Sessions to avoid the substance by excusing himself from commenting. Committee members must therefore word their questions without reference to any case. I would simply ask Mr. Sessions this:
Was the presidents tweet about a wiretap at Trump Tower, to your knowledge, illegal? If so, to whom have you reported this offense?
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/opinion/what-to-ask-about-russian-hacking.html
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Dear House Intelligence Committee, this is what you need to do: (Original Post)
MelissaB
Mar 2017
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GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)1. It's a great set of witnesses and questions.
Too bad it's a never-gonna-happen kind of thing.
Zoonart
(11,878 posts)4. Meanwhile in the supermarket...
This is the front page of this weeks National Enquirer
WORLD EXCLUSIVE!
How Obama Wiretapped Trump Spies Tell All
How Obama Wiretapped Trump Spies Tell All
Intimating that Obama ran the most corrupt administration in US history and that he will be tired for treason!
It made me want to scream seeing this in the check out isle of the market today.
I turned some of the copies around, but could not go down the entire register line because it was crowded with carts down the center of the isles.
This crap is ridiculous.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)2. Thank you for posting
Been looking for a version without the paywall. Twitter is all a buzz on this op Ed.
wishstar
(5,271 posts)3. Repr. Maxine Waters said she has more confidence in Senate rather than Congressional investigation
She was on MSNBC (with Joy Reid) this am and rattled off some of the connections including Flynn and Manafort that should be investigated further
Qutzupalotl
(14,327 posts)6. This brings me much joy.
She is asking the right questions of the right people. She seems to be farther along in connecting the dots than most other journalists, Maddow included.