{"id":104961,"date":"2018-09-28T13:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=104961"},"modified":"2018-09-28T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T18:00:01","slug":"house-intel-committee-votes-to-release-53-trump-russia-transcripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=104961","title":{"rendered":"House Intel Committee Votes To Release 53 Trump-Russia Transcripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>The House Intelligence Committee on Friday voted to release 53 transcripts related to the panel&#8217;s Trump-Russia investigation, reports\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/408923-house-intelligence-committee-votes-to-release-russia-transcripts\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>, &#8220;<strong>teeing up a massive document dump ahead of the November midterm elections.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/nunes-finger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104962\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/nunes-finger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/nunes-finger.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/nunes-finger-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The transcripts will include testimony from several current and former key members of Trump&#8217;s orbit, including\u00a0<strong>Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions,\u00a0Donald Trump Jr., Roger Stone and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also included will be interviews with former Obama administration officials such as former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper as well as former deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The transcripts \u2014 53 in total \u2014 will not immediately be released but will now go to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for a classification review, which could take days or weeks to complete.<\/p>\n<p>The documents are poised to revive discussion about the House panel\u2019s Russia investigation, which dramatically broke down into partisan infighting and culminated in Republicans moving to end the probe in a party-line vote last March. Democrats have accused the GOP leaders of ending the probe prematurely. &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/408923-house-intelligence-committee-votes-to-release-russia-transcripts\">The Hill<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>House GOP released a report on their findings in April which found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-28\/house-intel-committee-votes-release-53-trump-russia-transcripts\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-28\/house-intel-committee-votes-release-53-trump-russia-transcripts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}