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on July 13 2020 then majority minority
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leader Schumer Senator Warner then
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speaker Pelosi and then chairman Schiff
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sent a letter with a classified
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attachment to the FBI
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that letter expressed a purported belief
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that Congress was the subject of a
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foreign disinformation campaign
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the latter was targeted at the Johnson
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Grassley investigation
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however
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the classified attachment included
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unclassified element that attempted and
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failed to tie our work to a Russian
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agent named Andre derkash
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unsurprisingly those unclassified
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elements were leaked to the press to
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support a false campaign accusing
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Senator Johnson of me of relying on
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material from a Russian agent and thus
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advancing Russian disinformation
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of course it was pure nonsense that the
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irresponsible media portrayed this all
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as the truth
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guess what then
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chairman Chef claimed without any
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evidence whatsoever that our oversight
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work was rooted in Russian
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disinformation
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of course you know he conveniently left
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out that our oversight work was actually
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rooted in official U.S government and
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Obama administration records
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then guess what Senator Blumenthal also
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wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post
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accusing our investigation of quote
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perpetuating Russian disinformation in
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the U.S Senate end of Cold and then
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guess what minority leader Schumer and
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then ranking member Wyden tried to offer
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a resolution in the Senate disparaging
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our Biden investigation
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they in a sense were basically calling
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us Russian Stooges
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pretty simple
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that violated Senate rules in their
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efforts and of course were appropriately
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shut down
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on July the 16th 2020 mere days after
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the July 13th letter then ranking member
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members Wyden and Peters wrote a letter
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to me and Senator Johnson asking for a
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briefing from the FBI's foreign
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influence task force our staff
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and the ranking member staff had already
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now remember we had already received a
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briefing
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March of 2020 that put the issue to rest
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so why another briefing the point being
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there was no real purpose for another
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briefing let alone a member level
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briefing other than to further undermine
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our investigation
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some of our Democratic colleagues
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weren't interested in anything but using
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the briefing to try and destroy our
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investigation
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but at these at these Democrats
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insistence
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the FBI caved
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in August 2020
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Senator Johnson and I had that Infamous
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briefing from the FBI that was needless
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and then as we had feared the contents
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of that briefing were later leaked to
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The Washington Post even though the FBI
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had promised us confidentiality
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that leak outrageously and inaccurately
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connected that FBI briefing to our
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investigation in another effort to
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falsely label our good government
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oversight work as Russian disinformation
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On The Wall Street Journal editorial
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board was on top of it because that
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board did the right thing and wrote a
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piece about the briefing titled quote
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the FBI's dubious briefing did the
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bureau set up two GOP Senators at the
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behest of Democrats end of quote so
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simply put the briefing was unnecessary
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and completely irrelevant to the
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substance of our investigation it was
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only done because the Democrats wanted
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to do so they could try and smear us and
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the FBI wrongly the FBI wrongly did
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their biddy to this very day director
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Ray refuses to provide Senator Johnson
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and me as constitutional officers
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records relating to that briefing
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including the alleged intelligence basis
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for IT director Ray has consistently
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failed to perform duties required of his
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position
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now another example of this Democratic
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disinformation campaign involved a
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George Kent
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former State Department Deputy assistant
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general Senator Johnson and I ran a
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transcribed interview with George Kent
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before the interview Democrats
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acquired material from that Russian
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agent the same one that I mentioned
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earlier
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at the interview Democrats not
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Republicans Democrats asked Mr Kent
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about the same material Mr Kent said it
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was
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disinformation now think about that
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after all the spears the Democrats were
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throwing at the Two of Us
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in the end it was the Democrats who
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introduced racial disinformation from a
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Russian agent into the investigative
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record as an exhibit a foreign aged
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whom our own intelligent committee
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warned was actively seeking to influence
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U.S politics
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not me or Senator Johnson not our staff
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it was the Democrats who inserted
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disinformation from the Russians into
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our official record
So there you have it, Who, What, When, Where, and How. We can only speculate as to Why.
I'd like to hear your best guess.