Sen. Richard M. Burr: "no reason to dispute" assessment by American intelligence agencies on Russia

[Miles Archer]

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, on Wednesday on Capitol Hill. His statement was a rebuke to the president’s most ardent supporters.CreditAlex Wong/Getty Images

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/richard-burr-senate-intelligence-committee-russia.html

WASHINGTON — The Republican at the helm of the Senate’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election backed on Wednesday the assessment by American intelligence agencies that Moscow favored Donald J. Trump in the race, contradicting both the president and fellow Republicans in the House.

Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that he saw “no reason to dispute” the intelligence assessment, which was delivered in the final weeks of the Obama administration.

Mr. Burr’s statement, while indirect, offered a clear rebuke to Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters in the Republican Party and in the right-wing news media, who have sought to cast the assessment as the shoddy work of Obama loyalists bitter over Mr. Trump’s election victory. Russia’s only goal, those supporters have insisted, was to sow chaos, and thus it could not have colluded with a campaign it cared little about.

The only logical conclusion, they contend, is the one that Mr. Trump has already reached: The investigation led by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, is a “witch hunt” cooked up by Democrats desperate to undermine a president they detest.

[Botany]

1. And Mitch McConnell blocked the release of this information to the American people prior ....

... to the election. Look how he blocked Merrick Garland for SCOTUS it was almost like he
knew the fix was in.

Ryan, McConnell, Sessions, Manafort, Flynn, Trump Jr., Ivanka, and many more
were in on the theft of our election. Either by working actively w/Russia and Cambridge
Analytica or by keeping their silence.


https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

Paul Ryan, "Families keep secrets."

[cilla4progress]

2. Haven't we known this for

Forever?

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Yeah - but

Good, bad, indifferent - we are stuck until next January.

The wimp won't do anything.