Not sure what you mean by this...if Ratcliffe is framing the intel, holding back on what is particularly damning about the active measures campaign, and instead frames it as a 'preference' equivalent to the China 'preference', then he can't be challenged.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 7:40 pmMaybe we are talking past others pov on this. DNI is not hiding them from the public...persay, the DNI sends them to Schiff and Nunes et al, who can then inform 'the people' congress, as they see fit. Maybe your argument is that the DNI will only send bland intel, which would mean your tin foil hat is on and you do indeed believe in the deep state, otherwise I still believe it forces the INtel committee to play with others balls and get along.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 6:33 pmThere is no restriction on submitting written statements and reports, the only thing being eliminated is the back and forth of being questioned and challenged on how statements are characterized.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 10:15 amSo you'd rather it be verbal, left for interpretation, then have no way to prove it.....just like ole' times? It avoids mistakes like in the "pass it on game" where the story changes....this holds Schiff & Nunes accountable and forces them to play in the sandbox together.RedFromMI wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 9:49 amAnd by controlling the narrative through the written submissions, the administration can conflate things like Chinese favoring a Biden win with Russia not only favoring a Trump win but working actively through media like FB to gin up support for Trump and suppress votes for Biden.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:57 amYes, in the real world:youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:54 am Great move for accountability. Meanwhile, in Realville....
"With a written release or a written report, you avoid the back-and-forth of questions, some of which could be quite probing. And I think, I think the DNI would like to avoid that and avoid the risk of saying something that might incur the wrath of the President,"
Enjoy your Sunday.
They all do it becomes the message, when in fact the preponderance of the activity is Russia meddling, just like in 2016.
Here's the thing...what does the Trump Administration believe should be actually classified and, thus kept from public knowledge? The sources and methods of the intelligence gathering (ok, full agreement) or the conclusions drawn from such intelligence???
The latter appears to be the issue. When a statement was put out previously that conflated the Russian active measures campaign with the China preference, characterizing them similarly, only through congressional questioning was the statement re-done to draw the appropriate distinction.
Now, should the American public know???
I don't think this aspect should be behind closed doors at all...put Ratcliffe under oath and ask him, in full public view, hard questions on what's actually happening, without need for revealing sources and methods.
So, do Trump supporters really think the American public shouldn't know exactly how the Russians are meddling this go round? should they see examples of social media disinformation? what topics and views are they doing this around? should they hear about troll farms and bots? Are there Russian agents physically in the United States? Are there activities to penetrate election infrastructure?
Seriously, should voters not know?
Or is just cool to stay mum because it's designed to help Trump?
Or any similar holdback or framing.
Note that the above already happened, indeed just happened, and is clearly what the Trump crew would like to be able to pitch to the American public leading up to the election. That's not tinfoil, it just happened. Nor is it 'Deep State', it's Trump-control of the DNI...how many DNI's has it taken to get to the Rat?
There's no validity to an argument that written information is less leak-able than verbal responses...the issue is entirely about message control and the avoidance of closer scrutiny...through the election. Yet that's the logic being pushed by the Trump crew, that they're worried about leaks...in other words, they really don't want to tell Congress and the American people something. So, they won't put it in writing...