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If sources and informants had to meet the same standard as FBI officers, we wouldn't have very many sources or informants. There's an expectation that people ou

by wgj 9y ago

If sources and informants had to meet the same standard as FBI officers, we wouldn't have very many sources or informants. There's an expectation that people outside law enforcement aren't going to meet the standards of law enforcement. That said, I'm not an expert in these matters, and I'm looking forward to the rebuttal memo to see what the other viewpoint is.

dragonwriter 9y ago
> That said, I'm not an expert in these matters, and I'm looking forward to the rebuttal memo to see what the other viewpoint is. The Republicans have prohibited the release of the minority memo. https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=342 https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle...
- koolba 9y ago
  That's disingenuous. They haven't prevented the eventual release of it. What they've prevented is circumventing the rules of the oversight committee which have a series of events (committee vote, wider vote, review, etc) prior to a public release. Rep Adam Schiff not doing his homework soon enough for it to be released in tandem with the Republican memo is his fault. They're not stopping it, they're just requiring he follow the same rules.
  - markoman 9y ago
    How ingenuous of you is it not to suggest that the Republican memo wait so that both can be released at the same time. Also, its true that there are Republicans on the committee that don't want to see the Dem's memo released at all!
    - koolba 9y ago
      > How ingenuous of you is it not to suggest that the Republican memo wait so that both can be released at the same time. There's no rule that all memos on a subject need be released at the same time. Each is released once it completes the release process. If there's a "rebuttal memo" from the Republicans upon the contents of the Democrat's memo, should we wait for that as well? How about the rebuttal to the rebuttal? The only requirement is that the vote and review process is followed. > Also, its true that there are Republicans on the committee that don't want to see the Dem's memo released at all! The comment to which I responded claimed that "Republicans have prohibited the release of the minority memo" which is false. If you're going to make a claim that some Republicans are preventing the Democrat's memo from being released then feel free to name the names involved. My understanding is that it's entirely a process issue and Rep Schiff is a tool for claiming otherwise.
dragonwriter 9y ago
> I'm looking forward to the rebuttal memo to see what the other viewpoint is. In the absence of the actual rebuttal memo, a kind of preview that doesn't require declassifying anything for release is available: https://thinkprogress.org/3-lies-in-the-nunes-memo-4c6498aad473/ https://thinkprogress.org/3-lies-in-the-nunes-memo-4c6498aad...

by wgj 9y ago

dragonwriter 9y ago

> That said, I'm not an expert in these matters, and I'm looking forward to the rebuttal memo to see what the other viewpoint is. The Republicans have prohibited the release of the minority memo. https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=342 https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle...

koolba 9y ago
That's disingenuous. They haven't prevented the eventual release of it. What they've prevented is circumventing the rules of the oversight committee which have a series of events (committee vote, wider vote, review, etc) prior to a public release. Rep Adam Schiff not doing his homework soon enough for it to be released in tandem with the Republican memo is his fault. They're not stopping it, they're just requiring he follow the same rules.
- markoman 9y ago
  How ingenuous of you is it not to suggest that the Republican memo wait so that both can be released at the same time. Also, its true that there are Republicans on the committee that don't want to see the Dem's memo released at all!
  - koolba 9y ago
    > How ingenuous of you is it not to suggest that the Republican memo wait so that both can be released at the same time. There's no rule that all memos on a subject need be released at the same time. Each is released once it completes the release process. If there's a "rebuttal memo" from the Republicans upon the contents of the Democrat's memo, should we wait for that as well? How about the rebuttal to the rebuttal? The only requirement is that the vote and review process is followed. > Also, its true that there are Republicans on the committee that don't want to see the Dem's memo released at all! The comment to which I responded claimed that "Republicans have prohibited the release of the minority memo" which is false. If you're going to make a claim that some Republicans are preventing the Democrat's memo from being released then feel free to name the names involved. My understanding is that it's entirely a process issue and Rep Schiff is a tool for claiming otherwise.

dragonwriter 9y ago

> I'm looking forward to the rebuttal memo to see what the other viewpoint is. In the absence of the actual rebuttal memo, a kind of preview that doesn't require declassifying anything for release is available: https://thinkprogress.org/3-lies-in-the-nunes-memo-4c6498aad473/ https://thinkprogress.org/3-lies-in-the-nunes-memo-4c6498aad...