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The Minority Members
of
the House Permanent Select Commi
tt
on Intelligence
on March 26, 2018 submit the following Minority Views to the Majority-produced
Repo11
on Russian Active Measures, March 22, 201
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Dev
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Nunes,
California,
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On March I, 2
01
7, the Hou
se
Permanent Sele
ct
Co
mm
il
tee
on Intelligen
ce
(HP
SC
I) a
ppr
ove
d a biparti
sa
n
'
Scope
of
In
vestigation" to guide the
Co
mmitte
e's
inquiry into
Ru
ssia's
interf
erence
in the 2
01
6 U.S. el
ec
ti
on.
1
In
announc
in
g th
ese
parameters for the House of Re
pr
ese
nt
atives'
o
nl
y autho
ri
zed
in
ves
tigation in
to
Russia
's
meddling,
th
e
Co
mmittee's lea
der
ship
pl
edg
ed
to unde1take a thorough, biparti
sa
n, and independe
nt
probe.
Th
e Co
mmitt
ee explained at the time that it
wo
uld "conduct interviews, t
ake
wit
ness t
es
timony,
and review all reporting underlyin
g
the January 6, 2
017
Intelligence Co
mmunity
Assessment
(ICA) on Russ
ia
's c
ove
rt c
amp
aign.
2
Importantly, Chairman Devin Nun
es
and Ranking Me
mb
er
Adam Sc
hi
ff
prom
is
ed the
Am
erican public that the C
ommittee
would "
see
k to ensure[ ... ] that
allegations of Russian
co
llusion with any U.S. Persons and lhe l
ea
ks
of
cl
ass
ified informa
ti
on are fully investi
ga
ted." Chairman
Nun
es
v
owe
d that ·'
on
a bipartisan basis,
we
will fully investigate
a
ll
th
e
ev
idence we coll
ec
t and
fo
ll
ow
th
at eviden
ce
wherever it l
ea
ds
,
a
pr
omi
se
echoed
by
Ranking Me
mber
Schi
ff
, who said that the Co
mm
i
ttee
"
mu
st follow the
fa
ct
s
wher
ever th
ey
may lead, l
ea
ving no stone unturned, and that must also
in
clude both the Russian hacking and
dumping of documents as we I as any potential collusion betw
een
Russia and U.S. ci
ti
z
en
s. "
3
One year later, the
Co
mmitt
ee's Maj
or
ity
ha
s shattered its commitment by rus
hing
to end its
inv
es
tigati
on
prematurely, even
as
it
co
ntinu
es to
inv
es
tigate Pr
es
id
e
nt
Donald
Trump
's
po
liti
ca
l opponents, o
ur
intelligence
age
ncies, law enforcement, and dipl
oma
ti
c c
or
ps, and former
me
mbers
of
the Admini
st
ration of Preside
nt
Bar
ac
k O
ba
ma. In so doing, the Maj
or
ity has not only failed to meet the mandate g
iv
en to
th
e HPSCI by the
Speaker of the House and the
Min
ority L
ea
d
er
, but
th
ey have e
ngage
d in a systematic
effor
t to mud
dy
the waters, and to de
fl
ec
t attention away from the
Pr
esident,
mos
t recklessly in
th
eir
assault on the cent
ra
l pillars
of
the rule of law.
Their
report, as with their overa
ll
co
nd
uc
t of the
investigation, is unworthy of this Co
mmit
tee, the Hou
se
of
Representat
iv
es, and m
os
t imp
or
tantly, the American people, who arc n
ow
le
ft
to try to discern
what
is true and what is not.
I
UNCLAS
SIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED The
Majority s
report reflects a l
ack
of
se
ri
ousn
ess and
interest in pur
suing
the truth.
By
refusing to
ca
ll
in key witnesses, by r
ef
using to request pertinent
documents
, and
by re
f
us
i
ng
to compel
and enforce
witn
ess
cooperati
on
and
a
nswers
to
key
questions
, the
Major
ity
hobbled
the
Committ
ee
s
ab
ility to
conduct
a
cred
ible investigation
that
cou
ld inspire
pub
lic
confidence.
The
Majority s co
nduct
has also undermined
Co
ngre
ss
independe
nt investigative authority.
Their
repeated deferrals to the
White
Hou
se
a
ll
owe
d
witnesses
to refuse
cooperat
i
on,
and
permitted
the
Administration to dictate
the te
rms
of
their int
eract
i
on
with
Co
ngress,
or evade
co
ngressional
ove
rsig
ht
alt
oget
her,
setting
a
damaging precede
nt for future n
on-cooperat
i
on
by this President and, possibly,
by
hi
s successors.
These Views
memorialize
the
Minority s
profound
disappointment
with and
objec
tions to
the manner
in
which the
Majority s
ubve
1ted this inve
st
i
gation, an
d highlight
for
the
pub
li
c s
ome
of
the
most
glaring misrepresentations, distortions.
and inaccuracies
in
the
Majo
rity s
repor
t
A maj
or
ity
of
the
repoit s findings are
mi
sl
ead
ing
and
unsuppo1ted
by
the
facts
and
the in
vest
igative record. Th
ey
have been crafted to
advance
a political narrative that
exonerates
the President,
downplays
Russia s
pref
erence and s
upp
o
rt
for
then-cand
idate T
rump
, explains
away
repeated contacts
by Trump
associates
with
Russia-aligned actors, and
seeks
to shift
susp
icion
towards President
Trump s
political opponents
and the
prior
administrat
ion.
One
can find no better
example
of
the
Majority
s willingness to conto
rt
facts to suppo
rt
its politicized narrati
ve
than
the
r
epo
rt s
Finding 35.
The
Majority argues that
evide
n
ce
that
Tru
mp
associates
so
ug
ht
after
the
election to establish
sec
ret
back
channels
to
communicate
wit
h the
Ru
ss
ians
without the
U.S.
government
finding
out
-and
then
li
ed abo
ut it -actua
ll
y proves there
was
no collusion with Russia.
The so
phi
st
ry
of
this
kind
of
analys
is,
and
the
repor
t
as
a whole, wither und
er
sc
rutiny. Even before
it
s public rel
ease
,
the
report suffered in
the
face
of
public r
eve
lations
th
at
bear
dir
ect
ly on the investigation
and
contradi
cted
the
Major
it
y s
cone
I us i
ons
. Tragically, for a
co
untry in n
ee
d
of
the truth
and
an election
system
in n
eed
of
grea
ter
sec
urity,
the
Majority diverted the inve
st
i
ga
ti
on in the service
of
President
Trum
p by launching parallel
probes to
promote
baseless a
ll
ega
ti
ons
of
wrongdoing by
the
Obama Adminis
tration and
our
l
aw
enforceme
nt
agenc
ies.
The
Majority s effo
rts
have
cultivated
doub
t
about what occu
rred during
the
2 16
el
ec
tions; cast
sus
picion on
the
Federal
Burea
u
of
In
vest
igati
on
(FBI)
and
D
epa
rtment
of
Ju
st
ice (DOJ), including the FBl
s
basis for
and
handling
of
its
counterint
e
ll
igence inves
ti
ga
ti
on
into links between Russia and t
he
Trump
c
ampai
gn;
and
sought
to
undercu
t
Specia
l Counsel R
obert Mueller
s
ongoing investigation, including
by
attempting to tarnish t
he
credibility
of
num
erous
c
urr
ent
and
for
mer
officials with
knowledge pertinent
to
the Specia
l
Co
unsel s probe.
Despite t
he
se set
backs and the constraints
of
being
in
the
Minority, the
Committee
s
Dem
ocra
ti
c
Members
remain
committed
to
co
ntinuing
the
investigation.
We
h
ave significantly advanced our
understanding
of
key
as
pe
cts
of
the inv
est
igation, including
Russia
s cove1t activiti
es
and
the
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