Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember hearing that they got the intelligence through a channel they were already monitoring, and Obama decided to sit on it specifically to avoid the appearance of exactly this.
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My recollection was that he tried to get it released in a bipartisan manner and McConnell spiked it
Obama asked permission from McConnell to release the info about Trump. He could have just done it, or even done it regardless, but he didn't.
That, and the way he wasted the first six months of his first term trying to be bipartisan, are two of his biggest mistakes ever and radicals altered the course our country would take. I'll genuinely never forgive him.
And he's still the best president I've ever had the opportunity to vote for :(
Can you imagine even one Republican asking a Democrat for such a thing?
Yeah, on the bipartisan thing, I remember driftglass on the Professional Left saying something like "Obama would extend a hand to the other side, and kept pulling back a bloody stump", which is a very evocative image.
Democrats are fucking brain dead idiots trying to play by the rules with a bunch of scumbag fascists
They lie broadly for any reason, so I don't see why they wouldn't be lying about this too.
How come she looks exactly like Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Black Panther 2?
There's no monopoly on the government-intelligence-villain look
Russian asset and psycho cult member Gabbard lying?
Shocking.
Shocked face****
Of course Gabbard is lying. Her lips are moving.
...you voted these fuckers in...protest or non...
Good thing Gaza is ok then! /s
I mean when you have nothing else left in the cannon & have already turned over every piece of furniture in the hotel lobby, what’s wrong with some outright lying?
No duh
It's nice for somebody to finally use the word.
i just want to splash tuls with hair dye and deny her her stupid little jean grey stripe
Why do they have to even bother quoting the "lying" in the headline?
USA politics is corrupt to the core :D