“At issue is a memo commissioned by Rep. Devin Nunes, Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee. It contains “extremely classified” material regarding the U.S. government’s investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, said a senior committee source.
Some Republicans have suggested the memo shows the FBI and Justice Department are biased against the president and, along with U.S. intelligence agencies, improperly surveilled members of Trump’s 2016 campaign….
As Republicans called for the release of a classified memorandum that they say shows anti-Trump bias at the Justice Department, a network of Kremlin-controlled Twitter [TWTR.N]accounts swung into action to amplify that demand, according to specialists who monitor online activity sponsored by Moscow.
The use of the hashtag #releasethememo increased 315,500 percent in roughly 24 hours on 600 Twitter accounts known or suspected to be under Kremlin influence, according to the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a project of the nonpartisan German Marshall Fund think tank.
“I’ve never seen anything quite like it,” said Bret Schafer, an analyst at the Alliance.
The data can be seen at: here”
Typical of releasethememo tweets:
Maybe you can get RT to run it, Uday….
Shocking, I tells ya, shocking!!!!!
Um, bot lady, those ain’t Senators….