Wyden Calls for Immediate Declassification and Public Release of Intelligence Related to Russian Int

[deminks]

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-calls-for-immediate-declassification-and-public-release-of-intelligence-related-to-russian-interference-in-us-election

Friday, December 16, 2016

Washington, D.C. – In response to statements by the executive branch that it may be weeks before new information is released to the public about Russian interference in the U.S. election, Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the American people cannot wait that long to get the facts.

“This is a national crisis that must be fully explained to the American people right now,” Wyden said. “When a foreign nation interferes in our election, delays and closed-door investigations are not good enough. We cannot continue to sweep this under the rug or to wait until just before inauguration day before leveling with the public.”

The Intelligence Community last declassified information about the Russian Government and the U.S. election on October 7, 2016. On November 30, 2016, Senator Wyden and other members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence urged the President to declassify and release to the public specific information concerning the Russian Government and the U.S. election.

“American democracy, and its independence from foreign interference, is at stake,” Wyden said. “History will not forgive those who kept the facts from the American people.”

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[ZoomBubba]

1. Something is going on ...

... the FBI is suddenly on board with the CIA. There must be some sort of deal behind the scenes that's going to turn the US up on its head on Monday.

Granted, it likely won't change the outcome. But part of me thinks that Trump is going to be stepping aside for Pence, either willingly or unwillingly.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. I am heartened to hear this, I was equally disheartened to hear the

lack of urgency in President Obama's voice and comments today.

Don't get me wrong, if I was President Obama and I had been treated the way he has been treated, accused of being the most divisive president while actually being the least, accused of be the most partisan while actually being the least, I might say "go fuck yourself" at this point.

Now he didn't say that, but what he also didn't say and didn't express does upset me because I believe this is do or die time.

[emulatorloo]

3. Go Wyden! To the greatest page!

[triron]

4. Totally with him.

But nothing will happen. Democrats are wimps and not united it appears.