Who is Richard Burr, Really? Why the public can't trust his voice in the Russia probe
On the same day that Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) officially joined the Trump campaign as a senior national security advisor, the U.S. intelligence community released a statement that the Kremlin was trying to interfere in the election. But the Senator already knew those facts, and much more. Burr had been fully briefed in secret by the U.S. intelligence community a few weeks earlier. Senior U.S. officials told Burr that Russias interference was designed to support Donald Trumps electoral chances. Burr decided to team up with the Trump campaign anyway, and hitch his own electoral fate in North Carolina to Trumps political fortunes.
More than two years later, Burr now leads the Senates flagship investigation into whether fellow members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russias efforts. As the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Burrs work with Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) on the investigation is heading toward its final stage. The committee is expected to issue its major findings in the coming months.
Burr has received remarkably favorable press coverage for his stewardship of the investigation. Many mainstream commentators have heralded his committee as a bipartisan effort to follow the facts and tell the American public what it finds. Closer observation, however, raises serious questions whether thats how this chapter in the 2016 election saga will end.
Whats largely escaped scrutiny is the case of Burrs own words and deeds during the 2016 campaign. It was impossible to put the pieces together back then. We now have a much clearer picture due to news reports, court filings by the special counsel, and congressional testimony by former administration officials. We have learned a lot about what Russia was doing, what the U.S. intelligence community knew, and what Burr was told. The picture that emerges is neither favorable for Burr personally, nor for what truths Americans can expect to receive from his stewardship of the committee in the months ahead.
https://www.justsecurity.org/62573/richard-burr-leadership-senates-russia-investigation-disintegrate/
dem4decades
(11,321 posts)Know none of that was Russian money?
dlk
(11,601 posts)When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
awesomerwb1
(4,269 posts)if Rep. Schiff or Rep. Swalwell were in that Senate Intelligence Committee things might be sounding a little bit different.
Burr is just another POS russiapublican traitor.