Seth Abramson: Bombshell revelations in new House Intelligence report

[pnwmom]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/990040290907119617.html

There are bombshell revelations deeply damaging to Trump in the just-released HPSCI report written by Trump's allies and agents in the House. This thread discusses them via a deep dive into the timeline of events the GOP now seeks to obscure. Hope you'll read and share.

It's now clear that Trump NatSec chief Jeff Sessions received—with Trump—the US intelligence community's August 17, 2016 briefing calling Russia a "threat." 22 days later, Sessions secretly met with the Russian ambassador. No other Armed Services Senator met with Kislyak in 2016.

Sessions' testimony confirms he discussed Ukraine (sanctions) with Kislyak in his secret meeting of September 8, 2016—the one he lied to Congress about. But we didn't know until now that the intelligence community had told him 22 days earlier that Russia was an *active* threat.

So Trump's top national security advisor was told Russia was an *active* threat against the US and *almost immediately thereafter* set up a secret meeting with the Russians, which he later lied about under oath. During the secret meeting he discussed sanctions policy with Russia.

SNIP

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[Docreed2003]

3. K&R

[Doodley]

4. That was in their report that they claim showed there was no wrongdoing?

[BigmanPigman]

5. If that is considered OK by them what in the Hell

do they perceive as dangerous or a threat?

[Scarsdale]

17. Well, the money

Russia donated to the gop was more than welcome, so that "greased the skids" so to speak. The entire administration of unqualified traitors, plus the gop needs to resign.

[triron]

6. They didn't make any attempt to connect the dots.

[certainot]

9. a few cons secretly might have wanted to get something out? the rest are fucking idiots

- really, just stupid, capable of being told what to do by their think tank appointed staff and remembering and delivering some lines. that's what the GOP is now.

and R is for russian.........

[grantcart]

11. Think that was bad, this was also in it, even worse

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210548866

[pnwmom]

15. That's covered in the Abramson tweets. It IS a smoking gun. n/t

[brer cat]

7. I continue to be amazed at all that comes out about this maladministration

and that the republicans in Congress try to keep hidden.

Thanks for the post, pnwmom. You have been staying on top of this all along.

[pnwmom]

8. Thanks, brer cat. Staying on top of it is my way of coping

with the almost unbearable turn of events that took place in 2106.

[DesertRat]

10. Maybe that's why he keeps tweeting "Witch hunt!" and "No collusion!"

Link to tweet

[SleeplessinSoCal]

12. Doesn't matter. Trump is king of their world. We are the dandruff.

[lunatica]

23. Have you been paying attention to events impacting Trump & Co the last two weeks?

What in the world do you mean it doesn’t matter? Everyone around him are trapped and falling like flies!

[Achilleaze]

13. The republican Perjurer General is a traitor against America

for the benefit of the ignoble & deceitful & traitorous republican Comrade Casino*

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Pluvious]

14. Is this possibly the core reason Sessions recused himself ?

[grantcart]

16. I believe that the DOJ ethics officer was absolutely going to recommend

Recusal and this would become public. He had no option

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Nunes is so stupid he doesn't know the damage he does. . . . nt

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. Does anyone else find this vaguely suspicious?

It's almost as if he didn't have the best interests of America or Americans foremost in his mind. Or that it's possible he just might have had an inkling that these actions weren't ...umm...necessarily mainstream, shall we say?

[Scurrilous]

20. K&R

[MariaCSR]

21. I like this thread reader thing

[lunatica]

22. Oops...

[red dog 1]

24. K&R

[Nitram]

25. So much for the DUers who kept insisting Trump did not commit treason because we were

"not at war with Russia." If Russia had been declared an active threat against the US, that argument falls by the wayside.

[marylandblue]

27. AFAIK Treason requires actual war with troop movements directly against the United States

At least that's what courts have always ruled. Maybe we need a 21st century extension to that, but I think we'd need a constitutional amendment for that. I don't see Mueller trying to muddy his already strong case for other crimes by trying to extend treason to situations far beyond the contemplation of the Constitution.

[Me.]

26. What Is It About August Briefings

that Cons think they can just ignore them? Bush/Condi August 6, Comrade Trump/Sessions August 17.