The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, SSCI, is the epicenter of the larger intelligence apparatus that controls government. It was/is the SSCI who helped to create the weaponized system we call the Fourth Branch of Government. The SSCI is the institutional origin where the outcomes of the FISA courts, domestic surveillance, and downstream consequences of the Patriot Act are supported and facilitated.
Because of their unique role in creating our national security state, where U.S. citizens are regarded as the potential threat to the interests of that state, the SSCI is a unique stakeholder in retaining the corrupt systems of domestic surveillance power. No institution within the elected legislative branch of government has done more to destroy the freedom and constitutional protections within the U.S. than the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The intelligence community interacts with the SSCI with that benefactor/beneficiary alignment in mind. This is why the SSCI claims such bipartisanship, and why the corporate media herald the SSCI as an important functional tool. Without the assistance of the SSCI, the U.S. domestic surveillance state could not exist. When the IC feels threatened, they run to the SSCI for protection.
The chair (Warner) and vice-chair (Rubio) of the committee are also members of the Gang of Eight, intelligence oversight group. It is laughable to see Senator Mark Warner decry the possibility of national security leaks and compromises within the classified document issue. Warner himself was the most consequential leaker during the Trump-Russia investigation (Wolfe leak of FISA application), and the SSCI facilitated everything that happened in the Mueller investigation. [WATCH, Transcript Below]
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: Let’s start on the news of the moment. I know the two of you were briefed by the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. Do you have any timeline in terms of when you will get visibility into the documents of classified material that both President Biden and President Trump had in their residences?
SEN. MARK WARNER: Margaret, unfortunately, no. And this committee has had a long bipartisan history of doing its job. And our job here is intelligence oversight. The Justice Department has had the Trump documents about six months, the Biden documents about three months, our job is not to figure out if somebody mishandled those, our job is to make sure there’s not an intelligence compromise.
And while the Director of National Intelligence had been willing to brief us earlier, now that you’ve got the special counsel, the notion that we’re going to be left in limbo, and we can’t do our job, that just cannot stand. And every member of the committee who spoke yesterday and I wanted the director to hear this, regardless of party said, we are united in we have to find a way to do our job. That means we need these documents, we need that assessment.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But the intelligence community would say their hands are tied, because this is an ongoing active Justice Department investigation. So what would meet the level of- of addressing your concerns without compromising that?
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Well, I don’t know how congressional oversight on the documents, actually knowing what they are, in any way impedes an investigation. These are probably materials we already have access to. We just don’t know which ones they are. And it’s not about being nosy.
You know, here’s the bottom line: if in fact, those documents were very sensitive, materials were sensitive, and they pose a counterintelligence or national security threat to the United States, then the intelligence agencies are tasked with the job of coming up with ways to mitigate that. How can we judge whether their mitigation standards are appropriate, if we don’t have material to compare it against, and we can’t even make an assessment on whether they’ve properly risk assessed it?
So we’re not interested in the timeline, the tick-tock, the who got what, who did that? Those are criminal justice matters, to the extent that that’s what it is. That’s not what we’re interested in. We deserve and have a right and a duty to review what the materials were so we can have a better understanding of not just, you know, what the agency is doing about it, but whether it’s sufficient.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Does the director even know what the materials were?
SEN. WARNER: Well, we got a bit of vagueness on that because again, I believe you want to make sure the intelligence professionals and not political appointees were making some of that, that makes sense to me. But I would even think that if the- President Trump and President Biden would probably want to have this known if they say there’s no there there. Well, you know, there may still be violations on handling.
But we got to tell the American people and our colleagues, because we’re the only ones who have access to this information, that there’s not been an intelligence compromise. And again, this notion that when there was a special prosecutor appointed, they’re not exactly the same circumstances. But remember, this committee spent years doing the investigation into Russian meddling during the 2016 election, and there was a special prosecutor and Bob Mueller’s investigation going on simultaneously.
SEN. RUBIO: Let me tell you how absurd this is, there isn’t a day that goes by that there isn’t some media report about what was found where, what some sort of characterization of the material in the press. I just saw one this morning again. So somehow, the only people who are not allowed to know what was in there are congressional oversight committees.
But apparently, the media leaks out of the DOJ are unimpeded in terms of characterizing the nature of some of the materials that were found, plus whatever the individuals involved are telling the media. So it’s an untenable situation that I think has to be resolved.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But, you know, there’s an argument that there’s a diminishing value to intelligence over time, some of it’s time sensitive. The idea that some of these documents go all the way back to when President Biden was a senator, does that suggest that there’s something more than a problem in the executive branch?
SEN. WARNER: Agreed. That’s why the notion of ‘We’re not going to give the Oversight Committee the ability to do its job until the special prosecutor somehow says it’s OK,’ doesn’t- doesn’t hold water. That’s not going to stand with all the members of Congress–
MARGARET BRENNAN: So do you want to see these 300 documents from Trump?
SEN. WARNER: I think we need to see- chances are, we have a right as not only members of the Intelligence Committee, but as part of the leadership to read virtually every classified document. We’re part of the so-called Gang of Eight. We may have seen these documents, we just need to know, are these the ones that were potentially mishandled, and that mishandling is not our responsibility, our responsibility is to make sure the intelligence and the security of the United States have been compromised. And you’re absolutely right that some of these may have been years old.
So this idea that we’re not going to get that access just, again, we all agreed, and I think the director heard lot- loud and clear from all of us. It’s just not tenable. And it begs the bigger question and again, which Marco and I have agreed to jointly work on, that we got- we got a problem in terms of both classification levels, how senior elected officials, when they leave government how they handle documents. We’ve had too many examples of this. And again, I think we’ve got the bipartisan bona fides, to say, let’s put them in place on a going forward basis, a better process.
SEN. RUBIO: And let me just add on the age of the documents, it’s true, the information in and of itself may be dated and irrelevant at this point. But the- but having access to that information reveals how you gathered, whether it was a human source or–
SEN. WARNER: Sources and methods.
SEN. RUBIO: And so the- the- even though the information itself might no longer be very relevant, it does reveal how we collect information and thereby cost us those accesses and potentially cost someone you know, again, we don’t know what’s in the material, potentially put someone in harm’s way.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So you- you threatened to withhold some funding to some of the agencies yesterday.
SEN. RUBIO: Well, what I said is that, you know, I’m not in the threat business right now. But we certainly are- there are things we need to do as a committee every year to authorize the moving around of funds. I think the Director of National Intelligence and other heads of intelligence agencies are aware of that.
You know, at some point, I’d prefer for them just to call us this morning or tomorrow or whenever and say, ‘Look, this is the arrangement that we think we can reach so that the overseers can get access to this.’ I’d prefer not to go down that road. But it’s one of the pieces of leverage we have as Congress. I’m not, we’re not going to sit here and just issue press releases all day.
SEN. WARNER: And one of the things that I wanted Director Haines to hear and I think she was in a bit of an untenable position yesterday, she had been willing to brief earlier before the special prosecutor. I wanted her to hear that this was not just Senator Rubio and I, this was all of the members of the committee, on both ends of the political spectrum, saying, we’ve got a job to do, we’re going to do it, we’re going to figure out- we’re not in the threat business. But we’re going to figure out a way to make sure that we get that access so that we can not only tell the American people, but we’ve got another 85 U.S. senators who are not on the Intelligence Committee, who look to us to get those assurances.
MARGARET BRENNAN: How much are your hands tied, though, in terms of this part of government and classified- classification really being over in the executive to a large extent? Like, what is it that you as lawmakers can do? Is it new regulation when it comes to transitions–
SEN. WARNER: The Director of National Intelligence is the individual that’s the chief officer for intelligence classification. I think, and there’s been a number of other members of the Senate, both parties have been working for years, on the notion that we over classify the number of things that we read in a SCIF that somehow then appear in the newspaper begs the question, it’s kind of been an issue that’s been bubbling for a long time–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Over classification.
SEN. WARNER: –I think this, I think this series of events, pushes it to the forefront. And again, we have the power to write legislation, which then executive agencies have to follow–
MARGARET BRENNAN: In terms of record keeping.
SEN. WARNER: In terms of record keeping. In terms, literally, at least guidance on classification issues. I mean, there has been, and again, this Director of National Intelligence, I’m going to give her credit, she has been at least acknowledging and long before this issue came up, said we need to work on this issue of declassification, over classification. Every director says it, and then it kind of gets pushed- pushed back, I think. One good thing that may come out of this is that we’re going to find a way to resolve this issue on a going forward basis.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So it sounds like we found one area of bipartisan agreement already here that there needs to be some kind of legislation around classified materials–
(CROSSTALK)
SEN. WARNER: I actually think you’re gonna find a lot- on our committee –
SEN. RUBIO: On our committee–
SEN. WARNER: –you’re gonna find an awful lot more than one.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Where does this rank in terms of priority? Dealing with the classified crisis?
SEN. WARNER: Well the immediacy of it right now, and the notion and again, I would- I don’t know what President Trump and President Biden are thinking about this. But I would think they would like some recognition that these documents, hopefully and as Marco said, are not disclosing sources and methods, are not so current that there may be a- a violation of American national security. We just don’t know.
So I think we need to get this resolved sooner than later. In terms of the specific case, the Trump and Biden documents, we’ve not really focused as much on the Pence documents. But who knows what additional shoes may fall.
SEN. RUBIO: Yeah, and I don’t want to speak for Mark. Obviously, the immediacy of this moment is big. But I think we- the- on the broader set of issues, we still have this reauthorization of [Section] 702, an important authority for our government.
And then more broadly, I just think the world looks so different than it did when I started out in this committee. When I first got to the Senate, the principal focus of foreign policy and national security issues were counterterrorism. And those are still very important, but we’re now in a world increasingly revolves around great power competition: China, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and then some of the threats posed by Iran, North Korea and other rogue states.
So whether our intelligence agencies have adjusted quickly enough to that new reality, and- and the- and the- obligations that poses I think, is from a big picture perspective, in my mind, one of the things we really have to spend time on.
SEN. WARNER: And the thing that I think we’re getting- our committee has got some- some record on. I mean, I personally believe the competition, technology competition, in particular, with China is the issue of our time. And remember, it was this committee that first spotted, pointed out, the problems with the Chinese telecommunications provider, Huawei, as a national security threat.
And we built, frankly, even under President Trump, an approach to say we need to make sure that we get it out of our networks, and then convince our allies to do that. It was our committee, again, who first pointed out the challenges that, in the semiconductor industry, which we had dominated in this country–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Computer chips–
SEN. WARNER: In the- computer chips- in the 80s, and 90s, that we were falling behind, literally to the point that no cutting edge semiconductor chip was even being made in America. And we built them, the legislation around the so-called CHIPS bill.
I think there are other technology domains: artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced energy, synthetic biology, where we need to do the similar kind of bipartisan deep dives, to say, how do we make sure America and our friends stay competitive with a China that is extraordinarily aggressive in these fields and making the kind of investments, frankly, that we used to make post-Sputnik?
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right, and I want to ask you about that, because President Biden is reportedly close to issuing an executive order when it comes to restrictions on U.S. investments in- in China. But there’s concern about risking further escalation. What’s your view on how far that action should go? And where do you all pick up in terms of lawmakers?
SEN. RUBIO: Well, I think there’s two things. The first is the Chinese have found a way to use capitalism against us. As- as- and what I mean by that is the ability to attract investment into entities that are deeply linked to the state. That military commercial fusion that exists in China is a concept that we don’t have in this country. We have contractors that do defense work, but there is no distinction in China between advancements in technology, biomedicine, whatever it might be, and the interest of the state.
And then the second is obviously the access to our capital markets. And the third is the risk posed, we don’t up to this point, have not had levels of transparency in terms of auditing and the like, on these investments of- the- into these companies. What- when you invest in these companies in U.S. exchanges, you don’t have nearly as much information about the- the bookkeeping of those companies as you would an American company or European company, because they’ve refused to comply with those restrictions.
So there’s systemic risk to our investments, and then there’s also the geopolitical reality that American capital flows are helping to fund activities that are ultimately designed to undermine our national security. So it’s a 21st century challenge that we really have to put our arms around.
SEN. WARNER: And again, this is something- I think and I fall under this category, beginning of the 20th century, I was a big believer that the more you bring China into the world order, the more things will all be copacetic. We were just wrong on that.
The Communist Party, under President Xi’s leadership, and my beef is, to be clear, with the Communist Party, it’s not with the Chinese people or the Chinese diaspora wherever it is in the world, but they basically changed the rules of the road. They made clear in Chinese law that every company in China’s ultimate responsibility is to the Communist Party, not to their customers, not to their shareholders. We’ve seen at- at the level of 500 billion dollars a year of intellectual property theft. We have actually in a bipartisan way- over the- didn’t get a lot of attention- over the last seven years, have been out and we’ve done 20 classified briefings for industry sector, after industry sector, about these risks. Frankly, pre-COVID, we kind of got nods, but you know, some pushback because a lot of companies are making–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Because companies just wanted access to the market regardless of the risk–
SEN. WARNER: Were making a lot of- were making a lot of money off Chinese tech companies.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Exactly. Exactly.
SEN. WARNER: Now, post-COVID, I think there is an awakening that this is a real challenge and I think the good news is that not only is there awakening, you know, in America, but a lot of our allies around the world are seeing this threat as well. So I think, you know, we need to build this kind of international coalition, because the technology- who wins these technology domains, I think will win the race in the 21st century.
SEN. RUBIO: I- I think those–
MARGARET BRENNAN: So you want restrictions on biotech, battery technology, semiconductors, artificial intelligence?
SEN. WARNER: I want to have an approach that says we need to look at foreign technology investments, foreign technology development, regardless of the country, if it poses a national security threat, and have some place that can evaluate this. We kind of do this ad hoc at this point. You know, we- we- years back, there was a Russian software company, Kaspersky. Again, Marco was one of the first ones who said, ‘My gosh, we got to get this off the GSA acquisition list.’ We worked together on Huawei, I’m sure we’re going to talk about TikTok. We need a frame to systemically look at this. And frankly, if it goes just beyond the so-called CFIUS legislation about inbound or outbound investment.
MARGARET BRENNAN: That’s a committee that looks at national security risks.
SEN. RUBIO: But understanding that for- you know, 20 years ago, everybody thought capitalism was going to change China. And we woke up to realization that capitalism didn’t change China, China changed capitalism. And they’ve used it to their advantage and to our disadvantage. And not simply from an old Soviet perspective to take us on from a geopolitical or military perspective, they’ve done so from a technological and industrial perspective. And so you have seen the largest theft and transfer of intellectual property in the history of humanity occur over the last 15 years, some of it funded by American taxpayers. That has to stop. It’s undermining our national security, and giving them an unfair advantage and these gains that they’re making.
SEN. WARNER: And let me just echo- you know- I’m old enough to remember- you know, the challenges with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was an ideological threat, and a military threat. It really was never a first class, economic threat. China, we have ideological differences. They have a growing military, but domain after domain, they are a- right with us in certain areas, even ahead of us, in this kind of technology, on much. And I agree with Marco again, the ability to kind of manipulate our system, the kind of combination of command and control with certain tenets of capitalism. They have an authoritarian capitalism that for awhile worked pretty well. I don’t think it works as well as our long-term system. But we have to inform all of our industry and frankly, all our allies about this challenge.
MARGARET BRENNAN: They have the biggest hacking ability program than any other nation. Intelligence community says they’re the world leader in surveillance, in censorship. How restricted should their ability to access this market be?
SEN. RUBIO: Let me put it to you this way, I think it is nearly impossible for any Chinese company to comply with both Chinese law and our expectations in this country. Chinese law is very clear. If you’re a Chinese company, and we ask you for your data, we ask you for your information, we ask you for what you have, or we ask you to do something, you either do it, or you won’t be around. (continue reading)
Of course without the useless oversight of these two it would not be this out of control mess it is now.
As they reach across the aisle to destroy the foundations of our country and our freedoms.
None of this destruction could be accomplished without the corporatocracy of the Uniparty, (DNC/RNC).
Can we put a stake in this zombie somehow? Wait that’s for vampires.
Zombies make fine compost.
LOL literally!
“Can we put a stake in this zombie somehow? Wait that’s for vampires.” When what we are dealing with is parasites; an out of control infestation of parasites.
tick dip
Yep, the whole Uniparty is a parasite. Maybe what we need is RAID! (Pun intended)
total charade… these clowns should be facing Treason charges
…..or the woodchipper
Hanging and then wood- chipper? – I think some would pay to view this.
I might.
Wilfully or deliberately blind?
Profitably.
SEN. WARNER: And I agree with Marco again, the ability to kind of manipulate our system, the kind of combination of command and control with certain tenets of capitalism.
This might be the closest we ever get to Sen. Warner confessing his role in our Governemnt.
Sundance, thank you for the transcript. I hate giving clicks to these shows.
“And I agree with Marco (…)”… ain’t that sweet! buddy buddies! As we say in French: “Les deux font la paire”! (The two makes a pair)
Absolument!
Warner talks of bringing people out of poverty, what exactly is $119 billion in foodstamps per year then?
Everyone knows these communist democrats are impoverishing the whole country resulting in them buying votes with free stuff stolen from others via taxation.
And with this they have merged the Trump and Biden cases, which was why they raided Mar a Lago in the first place — to frame Trump for Biden’s espionage crimes.
Trump was well within his rights to possess those documents, and in any event a dispute over this question is a civil matter to be handled in civil court.
Biden, as senator and vice president, had no right to retain possession of those documents much less share them with non security clearance holding third parties such as his son. Biden has committed larceny, theft of government property and espionage. This matter is criminal and would be handled in criminal court.
Only merged in Maggie’s little head. I heard a pathetic attempt to keep Trump’s documents story relevant.
The Trump documents story wasn’t relevant in the first place, and only exists because of the Biden documents story, which is FAR WORSE than they are letting on.
My take is the raided 45 first so that when they decided it was time to take Biden down they would lump the two cases together and say they jump need to revamp the Prez Records Act…
45 is innocent in this.
Biden is guilty.
And did you notice they just glossed over Pence? Literally, glossed over and dropped his name entirely.
These people are so predictable.
I guess Dirty Pence should add some emphasis to his classified booboo hashtag then:
#MeTook!
That’s a good one!!
Definitely the FBI were holding onto the Classified Documents card to be played at the moment it would be needed to drive Biden out of running in 2024, and hopefully take out Trump in the process. Once again they were hoping Trump would walk into a process crime, but he did not. And the hypocrisy and double standard are so big that even some normies are bound to be red pilled over it. A frustrating factor (for the FBI) has been the ongoing liberation of Twitter. Praise be to Elon!
It’s so funny but having read Sundance religiously for about 6 years now, you can see every move clearly as it happens and even before. Thanks Sundance! That “Fourth Branch” mega post is like the Rosetta Stone of the deep state. And EVERY move bears some relation to using the DOJ-NSD to continue the operation, no matter the setback or twist in the story.
Totally agree. We must have found SD about the same time. I tuned in summer of the elevator ride, which was a time frame that I had totally tuned out from politics. Zero has a way of doing that to some people! From that point forward everything I know I learned here. Was thinking just yesterday as I watched these 2 lame brains in the Rubio & Mark video how truly pathetic all these people how. Same reaction watching the Nikki video. Somehow they seem so very small and pathetic to me. Such fake people to me, except they aren’t fake in their fake world. That’s reality to them. Pathetic people.
Trump’s innocence is actually irrelevant, because his case is governed by the Presidential Records Act, which is not part of the criminal code.
Good point, but”they” present to the public he’s a criminal no matter what the issue! It’s gotten very very lame to most of us.
“And our job here is intelligence oversight. The Justice Department has had the Trump documents about six months, the Biden documents about three months, our job is not to figure out if somebody mishandled those, our job is to make sure there’s not an intelligence compromise.”
I thought the job of Congress was to oversee the functioning of LAWS to make sure they are adequate and being properly enforced and conducted. Figuring out if there has been been an intel compromise seems to be a specialist job for the CIA and FBI counterintelligence, not a couple of armchair spooks. It is public knowledge that Trump and Biden possessed “classified” documents. The SSCI needs to figure out if current laws need to be changed to stop that sort of thing in the future. Or if laws need to be changed to make it possible for Presidents to retain documents for personal use without partisan FBI raids that have nothing to do with real national security.
The fun part of this interview is that these Senators whine that the EVEN DEEPER STATE is withholding information they need to function. Gee guys, welcome to how members of our formerly free society and democracy feel in spades. We simply cannot have a government that functions in secrecy without rotting from endemic corruption. Democracy without transparency cannot be other than a farce.
‘The fun part of this interview is that these Senators whine that the EVEN DEEPER STATE is withholding information they need to function.’ – Chewbarkah
… as they oleaginously repeat that ‘we are not in the threat business’ – because the Deep State they fund most definitely IS. Just ask JFK.
So these two deep-state enablers cravenly spin their plight, rather than defunding America’s intelligence community enemies of the people.
“rather than defunding America’s intelligence community”
Schumer: Intelligence Agencies ‘Have Six Ways From Sunday Of Getting Back At You’
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/schumer-intelligence-agencies-have-six-ways-from-sunday-of-getting-back-at-you/
Permanent Washington and JFK:
The fun part of this interview is when they admitted China is not our friend.
Trump has been saying this and they are just now figuring this out.
What they say and how they are act are not the same.
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It sounded as if the two of them are trying to get in front of an in-coming claim by Avril that she was being bullied by the Senate to release classified information such that the whole of Congress is just going to have to stand down until the investigation is done and over . . .
Dumb and Dumber.
Fumble and Fumbler.
These two represent the quality of those who supposedly lead the country?
We are in some deep (what fills Biden’s depends)!
“We simply cannot have a government that functions in secrecy”
yes and no.
I thought this was a good interview.
Leaking Classified material to the Press should be treated as espionage.
Having no government oversight is the problem.
You just described Mark Warner.
6 months and yet we have heard of no security risk assessment yet. What is taking so long?
Need to manufacture more you say?
Oh, and they got in the all important “sources and methods”.
If these “people” in DC represented us in even the slightest of ways, several three letter agencies would already be defunded.
If not disbanded.
They’re probably self funded,just with their import businesses, amongst other projects…
“ three letter agencies would already be defunded.”
That sounds like let’s “defund the police”?.
We need more whistle blowers and stop the cover ups.
….
May 17, 2019 — Kevin Patrick Mallory, 62, of Leesburg, Virginia, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release
All 3 of them make my skin crawl.
“All 3 of them make my skin crawl.”
Yes, because they are not following the constitution.
Another institution destroyed by Democrat leaders.
If they admit The Russian hoax ,They find the leakers inside the organization
and stop worrying about their reputation.
That would be a baby step in regaining respect.
it won’t happen in my lifetime but it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t try.
Remember Twain’s “Damn the institutions, the country’s the thing”?
One could as well substitute pride and consequence for institution in that paraphrase.
What will it take for these clowns to finally exclaim “My Lord, what have I done?” and sacrifice their puny selves to save the blessed nation they betrayed?
I don’t care how many hostages to fortune they might have, tell it to the Founders!
Margaret is a slimy snake democrat. I hope Warner and Rubio are out of the SWAMP on this but probably not. We need President Trump now 🇺🇸
It has been alleged she as well as others sit on Soros boards. The Nazi!
It is believed the control key used for Rubio is his ‘Foam Boy’ days.
Almost as bad as Rick Perry’s programming malfunction.
Robot Rubio repeats same line four times, even after being mocked
https://boingboing.net/2016/02/06/robot-rubio-repeats-same-line.html
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Found in the bin…. 🙁
Ty Ad rem.
YW….
He’s not a trained seal but he plays one on TV.
Haha. Good one.
If Pencil Neck gets Finkstines seat he’ll walk all over these two morons
robert…: Not if, but when (I’m in CA)
How could we ever sort out the crossfire of competing lies?
The truth would go on permanent hiatus.
Pencil Neck = Alfred E Neuman
What, me worry?
Rubio Robot. Who are his programmers?
Chris Christie takes down Marco Rubio
Every time I see this Warner clown can’t help but think of “Hey Mark, Hey Mark, Hey Mark”. He shouldn’t be on any committee.. he’s a big part of the DC problem. Liar, deceiver, arrogant fool. He thinks we don’t remember these texts.. we don’t forget all the betrayers. The list is long if paying attention for last 20 years..
A refresher from awhile back… https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-sen-mark-warner-texted-with-russian-oligarch-lobbyist-in-effort-to-contact-dossier-author-christopher-steele
… and the media plays along…
Warner has all the traits of the enemy from within.
Except for the red and blue ties [sporting team colors?] and the gray hair…They are clones!
The same downturned mouth?
The same droopy eyes?
The same drab suits?
The same word-salad?
Look at their hands!
These are the hands of someone hiding something?
All I can see is an Evil-Me and an Evil-Mini-Me.
‘SEN. RUBIO: The Chinese have found a way to use capitalism against us … to attract investment into entities that are deeply linked to the state. That military commercial fusion that exists in China is a concept that we don’t have in this country.’
The hell it doesn’t. Look at the orgy of defense contractor boodling underway right now … and the state-directed and subsidized [mal]investment of the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Protection [sic] Act.
Officially-communist China is de facto socialist, while officially-republican (small ‘r’) United States ALSO is de facto socialist.
China is just better at socialism than we are. Probably because Chinese grifters get executed, while US uniparty grifters like Warner and Rubio get … re-elected. 🙁
Amazon could have put their H2 anywhere (and there were some AMAZING bids put in by competing cities), and they decided on LITERALLY ACROSS THE STREET from the Pentagon.
Where can I go to learn how to lie without looking like I am lying?
You read my mind!
public speaking and polisci classes at uni
Adders in suits.
Gonna get in trouble but worth it — there is difference between a “man” sitting X and a “man”sitting ^ (ie, Warner vs Rubio) one is a ? and one “identifies” as a male. Please view above sitting photo of both “men”.
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He might as well have been hiding his crossed fingers behind his back — like a little kid knowing he was lying . . .
All I see is two traitors.
TIME for THE MONEY TRAIL…
1) MARK WARNER – https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/mark-warner/net-worth?cid=N00002097&year=2018
2) MARCO RUBIO – https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/marco-rubio/net-worth?cid=N00030612&year=2018
Rubio. Republican.
Cotton. Republican.
Collins. Republican
Remember these clowns.
Sasse and Burr: Who will be their replacements?
All bullshit. This is all America gets from the criminal fourth branch.
You wouldn’t see me appear along with Warner on ANYTHING!!!
No you and I would be on the sea search in search of a conservative Republican – don’t forgot the alcohol and snacks – it will be a forever journey Mr Hemingway aka mopy dick
Tell me again how we vote our way out of this? Cant be done. Theres only one way and we wont be a Republic any longer. The Red Chinese+ South Americans+ some European “allies” will invade via the Southern non border. What was once America will become a Red Chinese Province and turds like Foam Boy Rubio and Warren will be collaborating POS.
“Tell me again how we vote our way out of this?”
Okay..
What we are seeing now is the result of winning the house and new leadership.
Republicans are taking action to influence judges to do the right thing.
The Democrats will continue to praise the work that the FBI and CIA is doing to keep them in power.
We, we, we, the Uniparty Intelligence branch puppets who want to be sure to cover up whatever might be in those Trump documents that might shed light on their skullduggery.
Throw in a few “China” and “Russia” or “Soviet Union” mentions and that’s supposed to tell us that they REALLY NEED those documents.
Of course Biden’s documents will be benign, “Who killed JFK” docs and Trump’s will be all the strategic munitions caches we have and where. Nobody knows what, if any, documents exist anywhere.
And I’m getting fed up listening to people compare Trump’s declassified-every-right-to-have-them docs to Bidet’s docs from senate and VP that he didn’t have the right to have. The “pretending” is at an absurd level.
Even though Hunter’s laptop indicates that Hunter was more or less making free use of Biden’s classified documents.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Well, I don’t know how congressional oversight on the documents, actually knowing what they are, in any way impedes an investigation. These are probably materials we already have access to. We just don’t know which ones they are. And it’s not about being nosy.
In other words: “You can tell us what documents you have……honest, you can. We don’t have any nefarious plans for that info, honest, we just want to know how to coordinate our lies going forward……………..”
How do you move equipment to Asia area without letting China know…. preparing to fight China… you start a fake war with Russia.
What a waste of perfectly good air are these two clowns.
The Seventeenth Amendment facilitated this abomination.
It castrated Federalism and enabled the purchase of Senators for life by enemies of the Republic.
I don’t believe any of them.
This morning I searched to see if CIA mishandlers of documents had been held responsible.
It was an interesting read . I just scratched the surface.
Military secrets, torture ,waterboarding techniques etc.these all should have been hidden from the public.
We need to know what was in Biden’s garage and if it fits into the same categories and how long he had Them .
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May 17, 2019 — Kevin Patrick Mallory, 62, of Leesburg, Virginia, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-cia-officer-sentenced-conspiracy-commit-espionage
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-cia-officer-sentenced-conspiracy-commit-espionage
Hanssen sold thousands of classified documents to the KGB that detailed U.S. strategies in the event of nuclear war, developments in military weapons technologies, and aspects of the U.S. counterintelligence program. He was spying at the same time as Aldrich Ames in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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Trying cases in the court of public opinion Is a great way to influence public support for our side.
I shake my head with Margaret Brennan, wife of Muslim JAG attorney and Florida U professor who touts Muslims who made America, Senator ” I am the largest A-hoe” Warner, and Lil’ Marco.
Is this really the best we have?
IMESHO, perhaps the best in the Uniparty and amomg the maroons in the media. IMESHO, such an ” interview” was a waste of time and electrons. I still would like to know how mark “earned” $6 MILLION from the Russkie company, Yandex.
One of Foam Boy’s finer moments though I think he was surprised he got the admission from war criminal Nuland A Project For A New American Century acolyte that he got.
Ukraine Has Biological Research Facilities, Concerned Russian Forces May Seek To Gain Control
Frick and Frack
Treasonous Bastards
i DO NOT Agree with THIS ASSESSMENT –
( TREASON REQUIRES OUTSIDE ENTITIES to Be INVOLVED ; THEY Are ” doing a Fine Job ” with INSIDE HELP to SUBVERT THE CONSTITUTION )
They both act surprised like all this China and globalist intervention happened just yesterday.
they have both been around long enough in our government to have seen what was happening, most of us did ……the corruption and the destruction of our economy and society as a result of their own actions.
now there’s a problem ?
The Clinton crew has been minting billionaires via chinese capitalism / exporting our manufacturing tech, etc. for 30 years now.
I’m sure Warner doesn’t know that… Lol.
They are practiced at pretending not to know things.
Although the country now has citizens that number in the millions that are real security threats to the country, the security state apparatus works with many of them to control America’s patriots.
If only our government was as concerned about its own productive law abiding citizens as it is Israel, Ukraine, illegal aliens and the inner city criminal element.
Why did they even invite Rubio? This was all about Warner. A well known leaker who has issues of his own.
Brennan and Warner would not even let Rubio answer without cutting him off.
American capitalism is so great the Congress critters get to invest in the same companies they send 50 billion taxpayer dollars too for chip manufacturing . In other news 71% of Americans Say Country is on the Wrong Track: NBC Poll
Watching 2 settings of marge brennan makes me face the toilet.
What a hyena.
Why are these two sad sacks still on the SSCI? SMH.
both losers
I think Kevin McCarthy made a mistake when he didn’t take Warner off the SSCI also. His messages leaked like a sieve and he likes operating in secrecy w/o the rest of the SSCI’s knowledge.
Kevin can only make House committee assignments. He has no authority in the Senate.
Warner’s leaks had the full approval of both parties on the SSCI.
Reauthorization of section 702?
SEN. RUBIO: Yeah, and I don’t want to speak for Mark. Obviously, the immediacy of this moment is big. But I think we- the- on the broader set of issues, we still have this reauthorization of [Section] 702, an important authority for our government.
Is he tonedeaf?
Yak, yak, yak! Full of sound and fury—signifying NOTHING!
Margaret Brennan is an insufferable c…
Bill Barr was happy and used classification as a shield now both parties complain about over classification.
It’s lovely that the Republican Party is now the path forward for the outsider.
The Democrats have settled for putting forward nullities like Hillary and Biden.
But Rubio is a champion of nationalist bafflegab, and Nikki Haley has mastered double talk that would impress Professor Irwin C. Corey. And Harmeet Dhillon..I give up. She’s not a white man, and that’s about it.
A minority member who talked American values, conservative values (same thing) would be a juggernaut.
Sarah Palin came close, but Sarah herself didn’t understand the immense force she presented. The Democrats did.
Candace Owens could be it, but again, the rumble from the looming canyon intimidates her.
Men mostly dominate politics, because men have the ego.
Trump has myriad faults, but Trump has the ego that drives him on.
Our conservative savior will be a man.
As I contemplated whether or not I would listen to this dreadful video, I found myself staring at the vid cover page. Take a good look at those two in their frozen state. They are extremely unhappy, downright miserable people. No a lick of joy, happiness in their countenances. The are godless people. The seem weak, even in their power. They both appear to hate where they are and what they do, so much so, that they probably hate even being in DC. So why stay?
They are trapped. Remember soyboy announcing he was leaving politics before he even finished his first term? That chanced quickly. Blackmail.
Then there’s Marc. He’s in so deep he’ll never see the light of day.
They hate ever day of what they do. It’s written all over them, but they can’t go back. I don’t feel sorry for them. They made their choices little by little. They are now reaping misery. There’s no joy in those lives. Nope.
Draining the swamp entails getting rid of career politicians. Little Marco , is living proof we are doomed.
Rubio has no credibility after coming out all tight-lipped following the pee tape briefing and then doing nothing to stop the Russia hoax.
The situation was structured such that it would be a federal crime for him to do any of that.
It is that very same construct that allows and encourages Schiff to lie through his teeth, because he’s talking about things that aren’t real and don’t actually exist. But the other members of the Gang Of 8 ARE NOT allowed to refute what Schiff spews with the truth (because the truth is classified information).
That’s the WHOLE POINT of the “silo effect” that Sundance talks about.
It’s perverse, but was built to protect the fourth branch’s nefarious activities.
IF they wanted to get rid of tik tok in the USA they could. President TRUMP did. He saw the danger and was on board 100% and these are the people who stopped it.
What really pisses me off now is that just about every federal, state and local entity has banned it from every gubt phone but they still push it on our children. DISGUSTING.
Delusional Joe is not going to do it because it is part and parcel of his “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
Tik tok is only too happy to censor our thoughts, ideas and TRUTHs to push their own agendas, etc.:
Integrity for the US elections
https://www.tiktok.com/safety/resources/2020-us-elections
Increasing transparency into our elections integrity efforts
By Eric Han, Head of Safety, TikTok US
7 Oct 2020
https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/increasing-transparency-into-our-elections-integrity-efforts
Combating misinformation and election interference on TikTok
By Vanessa Pappas, General Manager, TikTok US
5 Aug 2020
https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/combating-misinformation-and-election-interference-on-tiktok
TikTok is battling false voter-fraud allegations spread on the platform by conservative accounts
By Rachel E Greenspan
4 Nov 2020
https://www.insider.com/voter-fraud-election-tiktok-conservative-hype-house-accounts-influencers-false-2020-11
TikTok takes down election misinformation aimed at younger users
By Sarah Perez
4 Nov 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/04/tiktok-takes-down-election-misinformation-aimed-at-younger-users
TikTok Adds Election Integrity Resources, New Efforts to Restrict Election Misinformation
By Andrew Hutchinson
28 Oct 2020
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tiktok-adds-election-integrity-resources-new-efforts-to-restrict-election/587962
TikTok Will Tag Election-Related Videos With Link to 2020 U.S. Voters Guide
29 Sep 2020
https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/tiktok-elections-voting-guide-misinformation-trump-1234786313
How TikTok Amplifies Political Activism and Threatens Election Integrity
By Anjana Susarla
7 Jul 2020
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/07/how-tiktok-amplifies-political-activism-and-threatens-election-integrity
OPEN TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
Protecting the Vote
How Internet Platforms Are Addressing Election and Voter Suppression-Related Misinformation and Disinformation
by Spandana Singh & Margerite Blase
30 Sep 2020 (last updated)
https://www.newamerica.org/oti/reports/protecting-vote
The only reason they want to ban TikTok is because it is controlled by CCP intel, rather than US intel. They want people in the U.S. only using our homegrown social media, so that they can freely monitor everything that everyone is saying. They can’t do that with TikTok because the CCP controls it, not them.