As we mentioned a few days back, Conservative lawmakers were “troubled” by the findings of a FISA memo. The House Intelligence report is said to outline abuses of government surveillance.
Since then, the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo has EXPLODED on social media…
Great news! Our efforts to #ReleaseTheMemo have been effective and the HPSIC plans to begin the process to release the FBI/FISA/Russia memo. This may take up to 19+ Congressional work days but Americans deserve to know the truth.
— Dave Joyce (@RepDaveJoyce) January 20, 2018
I read the classified memo from House Intel, outlining stunning info on the last administration’s FISA and surveillance abuses that should NEVER happen in America. The public should be able to view the same memo I did.
Please share if you agree: it’s time to #ReleaseTheMemo pic.twitter.com/UPdfqDKWA4
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) January 23, 2018
I read the classified memo from House Intel, outlining stunning info on the last administration’s FISA and surveillance abuses that should NEVER happen in America. The public should be able to view the same memo I did.
Please share if you agree: it’s time to #ReleaseTheMemo pic.twitter.com/UPdfqDKWA4
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) January 23, 2018
Well…there must be something the Dems REALLY don’t want us to see in that confidential memo… Because Dems are blaming this on Russian bots:
NEW: Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Schiff urge Facebook and Twitter to investigate involvement of Russian bots in pushing “Release the Memo” campaign: “If these reports are accurate, we are witnessing an ongoing attack by the Russian government through Kremlin-linked social media actors.” pic.twitter.com/SkAci5NefK
— ABC News (@ABC) January 23, 2018
I can’t even HANDLE how stupid this is. Holy SMOKES.
I’m ALL for #ReleaseTheMemo… The American people DESERVE THE TRUTH.
So I guess if you think Americans should know the corrupt dealings of their own government… you’re a Russian Bot.
Anyway, Twitter just handed their a$$ back to them…
Because GUESS WHAT.
This has nothing to do with Russian bots…. you freaking psychos.
According to the INSUFFERABLY LIBERAL Daily Beast:
The online groundswell urging the release of House Republicans’ attacks on the Federal Bureau of Investigation appears thus far to be organically American—not Russian propaganda, a source familiar with Twitter’s internal analysis told The Daily Beast.
#ReleaseTheMemo has been trending widely since late last week. It urges the House intelligence committee to release what its Republican authors claim is a finding of widespread FBI misconduct aimed at surveilling and discrediting Donald Trump. Democrats in Congress counter-accuse the Republicans of cobbling together a deceptive memo aimed at discrediting the FBI and Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump team over Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
On Tuesday, two Democratic leaders urged Facebook and Twitter to conduct an “in-depth forensic examination” of #ReleaseTheMemo to determine the extent of Russian propaganda promoting the hashtag. They relied on a report from the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy claiming that #ReleaseTheMemo was had become the favorite hashtag of Russian-sponsored Twitter accounts. (The report did not make any judgements about such activity on Facebook.)
“If these reports are accurate, we are witnessing an ongoing attack by the Russian government through Kremlin-linked social media actors directly acting to intervene and influence our democratic process,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff, two California Democrats, wrote to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
But a knowledgeable source says that Twitter’s internal analysis has thus far found that authentic American accounts, and not Russian imposters or automated bots, are driving #ReleaseTheMemo. There are no preliminary indications that the Twitter activity either driving the hashtag or engaging with it is either predominantly Russian.
In short, according to this source, who would not speak to The Daily Beast for attribution, the retweets are coming from inside the country.
OMG FROM INSIDE THE COUNTRY!?!?!
DOES THIS MEAN THE RUSSIANS INFILTRATED OUR NATION!?!?
No, you imbeciles… it means the American people want the TRUTH.
Daily Beast concedes this could have something to do with all those eeeeeevil far-right conservatives that simply want to know the truth:
The source pointed to influential American users on the right, including Donald Trump Jr., with his 2.49 million followers, pushing the hashtag forward. It’s become a favorite of far-right Republican congressmen, including Steve King, who claimed the still-secret memo shows the FBI was behaving “worse than Watergate” in one viral tweet. Mark Meadows called it an “absolutely shocking” display of “FISA abuses,” referring to a counterintelligence process.
How DARE they? How DARE they not just believe whatever Democrats crap out of their mouths?
Of course the libs are already trying to discredit the report… because they know it’s coming…
The Daily Beast reported Monday that the Trump-aligned Republicans on the intelligence committee who authored the memo, principally chairman and close White House ally Devin Nunes, have withheld the memo from its FBI targets. Those Republicans have been leading a charge against FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, a Trump adversary since his wife ran unsuccessfully for Virginia state office as a Democrat in 2015, with the support of Hillary Clinton pal Gov. Terry McAuliffe – before the Trump-Russia probe began.
The pressure from Trump and his allies on the FBI and the Justice Department over special prosecutor Mueller’s investigation is so intense that Trump’s FBI director, Chris Wray, had threatened to resign over Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ insistence that Wray remove McCabe, Axios reported.
Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat and the ranking member of the House judiciary committee, said on Tuesday he had read the underlying intelligence behind the memo and called it bogus.
“Let me as clear as I can be in an unclassified setting: the Nunes memo is a deliberately misleading document,” Nadler said.
“I can understand why President Trump, Chairman Nunes, and hundreds of Russian Twitter accounts want to undermine the Special Counsel’s investigation—but I cannot believe that anyone who thinks these allegations are true has actually read the documents on which the memo purports to be based.”
Could they be any more pathetic?