Do you smell that? It’s sweat, specifically the nervous sweat of Democrats who fear something big is about to break.
For over a year, the media has been fanatically obsessed with what’s become known as the “Trump dossier.” This collection of documents, assembled primarily by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, contains salacious revelations about Donald Trump, the details of which Russia planned to use as blackmail.
The only problem is, none of the explicit rumors have ever been proven true. Buzzfeed published the dossier last year to great fanfare, but the thing proved to be a dud, and only revealed how loose and unprofessional Buzzfeed’s standards of journalism are.
Then things got interesting. Over the year, we learned that the dossier wasn’t just an unsubstantiated collection of Trump’s worst behavior. The dossier was actually paid political opposition research financed, in part, by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
If that wasn’t damning enough, Fox News host Sean Hannity recently revealed that former FBI Director James Comey may have also helped pay for the dossier. And to make matters even more complicated, it’s rumored that the dossier itself was the trigger to initiate a wiretap of the Trump campaign, and possibly Trump Tower.
That brings us back to the ongoing congressional investigation into the dossier, its origins, and the firm that facilitated its creation, Fusion GPS. Byron York of the Washington Examiner is reporting that Republican members of the house Intelligence Committee are planning on making the findings of the investigation public. Their efforts are being stymied by Democrats on the Committee, who are behaving like they have something to hide:
Now, the House Intelligence Committee has taken a first step toward what might become public disclosure of key facts in the dossier investigation. It is a halfway step, and will not immediately reveal anything to the public, but it is a beginning.
At the committee’s meeting Thursday morning, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., offered a motion to allow all House members to review a brief report prepared by the Republican majority summarizing the panel’s investigation into what GOP members call “FISA abuse.” (That is a reference to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.) The motion passed the committee on a party-line vote.
This is very interesting. The motion was offered by Rep. Peter King, a well-known hawk in Congress and a lawmaker who rarely questions the problematic nature of the NSA’s widespread domestic spying authority.
Some folks on Twitter suspect Democrats are trying to hide something big:
Fox is told that while the Intel Cmte voted in favor of the Simpson transcript, Democrats blocked the release of other documents. The committee has also voted on a motion by Rep. Pete King (R-NY) to make available to all House members a memo documenting abuse of the FISA program.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 18, 2018
Schiff and the rest of the House Intel Democrats saw the DOJ/FBI/FISA docs on the dossier over a week ago. The lack of any leaks plus their votes today to block release of that info suggest the documents are catastrophically bad for Dems.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 18, 2018
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