Idiots. Total fucking knuckle-dragging morons.

When the Cold War hawks didn't like it when the CIA said the USSR was swirling the drain, they commissioned Team B and filled it with wingnut hawks like Wolfowitz. Naturally they produced a report saying the USSR was as strong as ever and had a first strike strategy. Then they leaked the report to the press and used it to discredit Carter as being soft on the Soviets. Cold War 2.0 was born and Saint Ronnie gave the military industrial complex over 1 trillion $ multiplied several times over in national debt interest that's still accruing. To this day the rubes still believe Saint Ronnie brought down the Berlin wall when the reality is he insured it's existence for several more years by giving red meat to the Soviet hardliners.

The only real difference today is thanks to Faux news, they don't even have to try that hard to convince the rubes of whatever they want.

What sources provide a good summary? The misinformation about Reagan is going to last centuries.

Dad was in the Air Force missile program. In the 80s the Repubs argued against the START treaty because the Soviet missiles were much larger than the US missiles. The reason, the Soviet missiles were less accurate so they had to carry more nuclear warheads than their American counterparts to ensure target annihilation. The analogy was if you aimed an American missile at the pitcher's mound at Yankee stadium it would hit inside the base paths. The Russian counterpart would be lucky to land inside New York City.

Another reason to doubt North Korean missiles would actually come remotely close to their intended target; it's Rocket Science after all. Not to downplay the results of a launch but if they were able to get within 100 miles of their target I'd be shocked.

WHO will make this the top news of the day?

The memo Republican staffers compiled reveals information that is “absolutely shocking,” “sickening,” “jaw-dropping” and “worse than Watergate,” GOP members of Congress said Thursday and Friday. The document could send government officials to jail, one congressman said. “Is this happening in America or is this the KGB?” asked another.

……written by staffers? "Written" implies created and invented, while "compiled" is more murky. The content could then be based on genuine material.

It probably is all a set-up and a twisty fake-news thing, but I'm waiting for more detail about what this actually is.

it's obvious what they did. The Committee (as whole) had the "compiled" data (including classified information) but the GOP members then had their staff take that and write a completely distorted "summary" of the data in order to manufacture their 4-page "secret memo".

….know how to create alt-facts, with just enough of a whiff of the real fact, that the Base goes into a lather.

Has to be seen in secret?

Maybe they should all watch Fox in secret too.

memo on twitter.

The secret memo is an opinion essay by Republicans arguing that the grounds used to get a FISA warrant to spy on Trump figures were bogus. But Trump could simply release the affidavit submitted to the FISA court, making speculation unnecessary. He could redact anything classified. If thebasis were the Steele Dossier we could see that. But Trump has refused congressional requests for release of the Affidavit(s). I can think of only one reason for his refusal, that the affidavit(s) are based on legit grounds.

after he was caught giving up Israeli intelligence to the Russians in the Oval Office(!) he has carte blanche to declassify anything he wants. So go ahead, Ochre Moron, release it, so 1/3 of the country can laugh at you, 1/3 of the country will have to have surgery after their eyeballs roll back in their sockets hard enough to get stuck, and the other 1/3 can have the pleasure centers of their Fox News brains stroked one more time.

Worthless pieces of junk legislators and waste of our taxpayer dollars. I thought that there was more important issues to work on. tRUMP is interrupting the normal course of legislative activities to try and constantly prove everything that he has stated, e.g. Obama was spying on him/etc./trying to discredit the FBI in prep for any more tRUMP-related Mueller indictments etc.

This will come back to bite all of them.

"You'll see a door that says:

TICK-A-LOCK!
EXTRA-SECRET SEKURE ROOM
NO GURLS ALOUD!

(Pssst...it's not really a secret. Tell everyone!)"

And the "New Day" show had some Repub congressman doing the usual tap dance and contortionist act, but at the end of the interview, he bellowed "RELEASE THE MEMO!" I truly had no idea what he was talking about, but said ok, this is clearly some kind of catchphrase du jour, let me google this nonsense. When I saw it *only* mentioned in/on:

Breitbart
The Daily Caller
ZeroHedge
Washington Examiner
BizPac Review

I knew without even digging further it had to be nonsense, and it truly has gone nowhere, as it should. For a party that is actually good at messaging, this was a pretty ham-handed "Look, squirrel!" moment that had to have embarrassed all but the most rabid and ridiculous Republicans. Not to mention that these fools control everything, release it if you want, who the hell is stopping you. Morons.

Link to tweet

and handed over to Trump's lackey Devin Nunes.