FOX: By Andrew McCarthy.
Blame-shifting. It is a Washington pastime. It also appears to be the reason why former National Security Adviser Susan Rice wrote her now-infamous memo, documenting an Oval Office meeting at which top Obama administration officials resolved to withhold Russia-related intelligence from the incoming Trump administration.
A key paragraph of Rice’s memo, previously redacted, has now been declassified and made public. Fox News obtained a copy Tuesday from the office of Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., which had sought access to the document.
The memo was written as an email “to the File” as Rice was leaving her office for the last time on Jan. 20, 2017, the day Donald Trump was inaugurated.
It seems that the purpose of the memo was to shift the blame to then-FBI Director James Comey for the withholding of Russia intelligence from the Trump team.
Rice’s objective was to absolve President Barack Obama of any blame for directing that Russia information be concealed from Trump and his incoming national security team, particularly Michael Flynn, who was slated to become national security adviser.
Of course, the withholding of that information would be essential if the investigation of Trump, begun by Obama’s administration, were to continue after Trump took office. more
We heard about this gambit years ago.
I’m sorry to be ‘that guy’ but this is old news.
No quarter for Rice.
this is orgasmic
I can’t get Johnny Cash’s song “A boy named Sue” out of my head every time I see Rice.
Obamagate, Hillarygate, Russiagate, Flynngate, Burisma-Bidengate, Fast and Furious, The Arab Spring, Bengazi and now the Chinese Virusgate… … and all the rest… are too complicated for the average American voter.
They are not too complicated for the American voter. The concept that traitors should hang and there should be equal Justice under the law, even for Republicans, is too complicated for the swamp.
THE RATS WILL START FLIPPING ON EACH OTHER SOON, WAIT FOR IT.
@mickey moussaoui May 20, 2020 at 10:43 pm
“…THE RATS WILL START FLIPPING ON EACH OTHER SOON, WAIT FOR IT…”
Sorry, it aint gonna happen. The DNC mouthpiece, FKA the MSM is in desperation mode to cover their own asses. And in so doing, they will NOT cover the truth. Simply stated, “if a ruling class (democrat) commits a crime, but the “so-called press” doesn’t report it, did the crime actually occur?
To report the truth will be to bring about their own demise. It’s a self-preservation thing.
@RadioMattM – ‘They are not too complicated for the American voter.’
I agree, it’s the Obama, ‘I voted for him because he is half black’ voters that are the ones that are gonna have the anvil hit them.
@mickey moussaoui – 100% correct it’s human nature to be afraid with charges upon you for twenty to thirty years in a max security prison or up on charges for treason.
@ stirrin the pot – that is ‘older’ world thinking, pre DJT POTUS, things are waaaay different now, you know this.
It’s coming. Ohhh, it’s a coming…the plug (and pin) WILL be pulled.
Ghost
Sorry Ghost – while I hope you’re right, I don’t put ANY faith in the “so-called justice” system. There’s a set of rules for you and me, and then there’s a set of rules for thee – thee being the ruling class elites.
Duh.
Hang them all. Literally.
@Ghost – continuing my last comment –
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, thrice, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth…need I go on? Shame on me.
We’re WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY past twelth.
@stirrin the pot – I agree, I don’t have that type of ‘faith’ either, but my faith and ‘money’ is on the this POTUS, and I do not bet, except that one time recently with Gladys…here on iOTW….and won that one. :>)
Rome was NOT destroyed in a single day (contrary to popular opinion), like the Swamp, there is a process to this… process…