This article is my own work published with Disobedient Media
This afternoon, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence announced that its’ investigation into Russia active measures targeting the 2016 U.S. election has finally come to an end.
In concluding its investigation, the Committee has announced that it has “completed a draft report of 150+ pages, with 600+ citations.”
The investigation, which was publicly announced in March of 2017, sought to answer the following four questions: 
The Committee draft report contains over forty initial finds, describing: 
The Committee’s draft report includes over twenty-five proposed recommendations for Congress and the executive branch to improve: 
The Committee, composed of 11 majority staff investigators and researchers, visited a total of 7 countries and spent a total of 426 days investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 Presidential election.
According to its own numbers, the Committee conducted a total of 73 witness interviews (including 55 transcribed interviews conducted by Members and staff in executive session), accumulated 230 hours of testimony, held 9 hearings and briefings (both open and closed) (6 witness hearings and 3 additional oversight hearings) and had 307,905 documents produced to the Committee.
The Committee also reviewed 7,292 pages of testimony, issued 20 subpoenas, engaged with social media companies 6 separate times to discuss productions, ad summary data, etc. and interviewed 7 witnesses who invoked their 5th Amendment protections from self-incrimination.
The Committee also spent over 1,200 hours reviewing source documents for the investigation into the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and reviewed 2,000 classified source documents for the ICA.
Furthermore, regarding the upcoming midterm elections, the Committee stresses “The Need for Urgent Action on Election Security”, stating that “…there is a widespread consensus in Congress and in the executive branch that urgent action is needed to counter the threat of continued Russian meddling in U.S. elections.”
However, while the Committee has announced the closing of its investigation into Russia active measures targeting the 2016 U.S. election, the Committee’s draft report will not be made available to the public until it is first provided to the Minority members of the committee on March 13, for review and comment. After this review has been completed, the memo will be submitted for “declassification review, and a declassified version will be made public.”
The Committee also provides that its work has yet to be completely finished, as additional follow-on efforts arising from the investigation must also be completed, including: “…oversight of the unmasking of Americans’ names in intelligence reports, FISA abuse, and other matters.”
While the House Intelligence Committee has announced the conclusion of its investigation, the investigation conducted by the Senate, as well as Special Counsel Mueller, rages on.
Earlier today, independent journalist H.A. Goodman reported on the latest news, though it remains to be seen as to whether the legacy media will cover this story in a non-partisan light. Disobedient Media will continue to cover this issue as it develops.
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"Scary Eyes", AKA Adam Schiff was on MSNBC last night bemoaning the outcome of the 'Russia Collusion' investigation. According to Schiff, He did all he could in the face of Republican, politically motivated skulduggery to discover the truth of Russian tampering with our election.
Of course, the motives of the Democrats were completely altruistic. Sometimes I feel like I have gone through a portal of some sort into "Bizzaro World". The Status Quo will not stop beating this dead horse, but at least they have a new hero in the form of Stormy Daniels.
So, the US needs to spend way more money with the intelligence industry to "counter the threat of continued Russian meddling in U.S. elections". Interesting that they left out the phrase "state sponsored", likely because there was no evidence of this whatsoever. But there certainly did appear to be plenty of state sponsored "meddling" from other countries.
Take my home Australia for example. We kicked the tin for at least $88 million (that we know of) of donations to the Clinton foundation (which potentially was run by Conman ). Lets not even factor in the other $460m given by both Liberal and Labor governments to other Clinton "enterprises", like the Global Partnership for Education. Government parliamentarians were also brazen in their support of Clinton.
But at least none of our government institutions directly provided assistance. Not sure the same can be said for our 5 eyes British cousin, with the involvement of GCHQ and MI6 in the creation of the dodgy Steele dossier.
Thanks. I wonder who those 7 were who invoked the 5th...