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highplainsdem

(49,004 posts)
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 10:28 AM Mar 2018

Ex-CIA chief rips House GOP for clearing Trump in Russia probe

Source: The Hill

Former CIA Director John McLaughlin ripped Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee after the committee announced it was ending its probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russian election meddling.

"As a subject or observer of Cong oversight of intel for 40 years, I've never seen a party drive a stake thru the process as House Reps just did," McLaughlin tweeted Monday. "It depends on a bi-partisan approach that at least gives the minority a voice. Take that away and the thing dies. It just did."

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/378088-ex-cia-chief-rips-house-gop-for-clearing-trump-in-russia-probe



McLaughlin's tweet:








His background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._McLaughlin
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Ex-CIA chief rips House GOP for clearing Trump in Russia probe (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 2018 OP
Powerful statement! GOOD for him! Hortensis Mar 2018 #1

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
1. Powerful statement! GOOD for him!
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 10:57 AM
Mar 2018

Why are they acting so desperate and so traitorous? No matter what they do, the fourth estate is only this and other nations are assisting.

Every week new information will come out revealing this to be a lie.

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