Twitchy favorite Kimberley Strassel is out with another must-read thread, this one on how the just-released Senate Intel report really doesn’t deserve much attention at all:
1) Actually, I don't really think the Senate Intel report deserves much attention. But since this was brought up, allow me to explain why. https://t.co/Nli8phUTOn
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) August 19, 2020
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2) From the start, the S Intel investigation was an exercise in Burr-Warner pretending to be the last "grown ups" in the room (yay, bipartisan), even as they produced a report that was the least grown-up of any committee in Congress.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) August 19, 2020
3) Leaders like @ChuckGrassley @DevinNunes and @SenRonJohnson dug in, unraveled all-important facts: Clinton's involvement in dossier; Steele leaking; Strzok's bias; Russian disinformation. Burr spent four years under Warner direction, and revealed nothing. As D's hoped.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) August 19, 2020
4) The result is the absurdity of today's 5th volume. Here we have a report with a last section that admits Steele's dossier was complete BS, even as the first 3/4 of report is spent looking into those very claims. Maybe take a stand? Find fault? Lay blame where it belongs?
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) August 19, 2020
5) But no. We have a report that lets chairmen pat each other, look "serious," get media kudos for not digging. It smears Trump campaign officials with innuendo. It can't establish any crime, just like Mueller couldn't, but throws out D conspiracy theories–to keep peace.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) August 19, 2020
6) Note that every R beside Burr and Collins signed an "additional views" section pointing out report's faults. Including "acting chairman" Rubio. Every D other than Warner (and independent King) signed a section that claimed–against all evidence–that Trump colluded with Russia
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) August 19, 2020
So much for "bipartisanship"– other than among self-promoting committee figureheads. So please don't tell me this is serious work, that produced serious information or serious recommendations. I'll wait for Durham.
— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) August 19, 2020
And now, we ALL wait for Durham.
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