Says the country
needs to know what role Russia played in 2016 election
By Samuel
Warde
U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ),
Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following
statement on partisan attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice:
In 2016, the Russian government engaged in an elaborate plot
to interfere in an American election and undermine our democracy. Russia
employed the same tactics it has used to influence elections around the world,
from France and Germany to Ukraine, Montenegro, and beyond. Putin’s regime
launched cyberattacks and spread disinformation with the goal of sowing chaos
and weakening faith in our institutions. And while we have no evidence that
these efforts affected the outcome of our election, I fear they succeeded in
fueling political discord and dividing us from one another.
The latest attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice
serve no American interests – no party’s, no president’s, only Putin’s. The
American people deserve to know all of the facts surrounding Russia’s ongoing
efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why Special Counsel Mueller’s
investigation must proceed unimpeded. Our nation’s elected officials, including
the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens
of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows. If we continue to undermine
our own rule of law, we are doing Putin’s job for him.
As The Hill reported: “Trump has
seized on the memo as evidence of a bias in the top ranks of the intelligence
community.”
“The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice
Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of
Democrats and against Republicans – something which would have been unthinkable
just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people,” he said in a tweet.
A few minutes later, he followed up
with an additional post, quoting Tom Fitton of the ultra-conservative Judicial
Watch: ‘You had Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party try to hide the fact
that they gave money to GPS Fusion to create a Dossier which was used by their
allies in the Obama Administration to convince a Court misleadingly, by all
accounts, to spy on the Trump Team.’ Tom Fitton, JW”
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) a vocal critic
of the Trump administration was one of the first Democrats to respond to the
release of the “Nunes Memo.”
On #MemoDay we have a NOTHING BURGER! What does the misleading #NunesMemo NOT SAY? -Doesn’t say relevant parts of Dossier are false -Doesn’t say Russia investigation based on Dossier -Doesn’t say no probable cause for Carter Page -Doesn’t say @FBI / DOJ violated any specific law
Lieu was tweeting in response to a
post by Yahoo News containing the full text of the GOP's
controversial secret FISA memo https://yhoo.it/2BQRNoJ .
