Posted on 05/24/2019 6:54:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Intelligence professionals warned Friday that President Donald Trump’s decision to give his loyal attorney general carte blanche to disclose still-secret material from the Russia investigation will let William Barr cherry-pick intelligence to paint a misleading picture about what started the probe.
The president claims his campaign was spied upon, though Trump administration officials have said they have no specific evidence that anything illegal was done when the campaign came under FBI surveillance that was approved by a court.
On Thursday, Trump gave Barr full authority to publicly disclose information about the origins of the investigation the president has repeatedly dismissed as a “hoax.”
“You have to get down to what happened because what happened is a tremendous blight on our country,” Trump said, adding that Barr is highly respected and will be impartial in reviewing documents.
But Trump’s critics are wary of leaving the decision of what intelligence to release — and what should remain hidden — in Barr’s hands. Barr is a staunch Trump defender who Democrats say spun special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in Trump’s favor, playing down aspects suggesting possible criminal conduct. Mueller has also complained to Barr about his handling of the release of the report. …
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Morrell is a nasty SOB, very anti-Trump and one of Clinton’s top disaster masters.
Kris - the NSD of DOJ is a joke. Just look at the cast of traitors exposed by the FISA warrants corruption, entrapment tactics for innocent people, armed raids against innocent people, etc.
McLaughlin - Check out his record of success. Let me know if you find one.
They all belong in Leavenworth for the next couple of decades.
Don’t forget weaponized the IRS, FBI, ATF, the whole damned alphabet soup against the Tea Party groups!!! This BASTARD Obammie weaponized every damned department in government against his political foes!!!! YET CRICKETS!!!
The Fake News Media reminds me of a guy at the poker table who is running out of chips. Soon they’re going to be Chipless ( as in scared sh*tless).
Every single thing in the probe that made Trump look bad when taken out of context has long ago been cherry-picked and leaked to the press by Mule-Ear's Hit Squad.
After subtracting all the leaked news from the report, there's nothing left in it that makes Trump look bad.
Thus, the act of releasing the entire report, where all the negative stuff is Old (leaked) News that's not worth reporting again, while all the never-seen stuff, which will be new News to be reported on will all be exculpatory for Trump, is defined by the Democrats as "cherry picked to make Trump look good".
Just in that snippet alone, there are multiple lies and/or delusions.
What a crock. All the stuff that "paints" Trump as colluding with Russia and justifies the witch hunt has already been leaked or released. He doesn't have to "cherry pick". There's nothing but cherries left.
Critics Worry AG Will Reveal Probe Info To Help The American People Understand and Know About The Plot To Undo An Election and Oust The President Of The United States
They Worry That They Will Learn That The Previous Occupant Of The White House, Their Hero and Savior, Was A Willing Participant To Undermine The 2016 Election
Fixed it...
Is it safe to say, that we’ll never know if they did this to any of the other candidates. Candidate Trump didn’t start setting himself apart for a little bit. There were other big names in the mix.
We know that none of them were doing the things he was doing at his rallies, but did the last admin and all its helpers plant folks in the other campaigns as “insurance”? Or is that telling that most of the others were all just Uniparty-Hacks, wearing different colored ties? I say most, because I’ll never put someone like Dr Carson in that group.
Read later.
No. Dicknipple DemoKKKrats worry. They are about to see justice, first hand.
For the first time in 2.5 years I think we may actually see some of these evil, vile people see handcuffs. Maybe not all, but some.
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Media rats and others often freak out these days concerning Trumps’ mercurial, perhaps impulsive personality, wondering if his tone is frightening to some of the people.
Last night an established older man was on with Jason Chaffetz on Hannity remarking about this subject and D.J.T. remembering words of George S. Patton.
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Lt. Col. Charles R. Codman: "You know General, sometimes the men don't know when you're acting."
Patton: "It's not important for them to know. It's only important for me to know."
I can’t recall a time when I’ve seen an AP news article that wasn’t slanted and mostly fake news.
They worry, you only worry and fear when you did something wrong, and they did! So they will run with Barr being Trumps bulldog going after the innocent victims that were just trying to do their patriotic duty for the American people (blood eminating from my eyes at this point)
In general, lying to the public is not a crime. The standard advocated by the press (no shocker here) is that lying is okie-dokie. When the press claims they are telling the truth, the press is lying.
50 USC 1809(b), the FISA warrant creates a legal defense for government employees who illegally snoop.
A person is guilty of an offense if he intentionally--(1) engages in electronic surveillance under color of law except as authorized by this chapter ...
(b) Defense
It is a defense to a prosecution under subsection (a) that the defendant was a law enforcement or investigative officer engaged in the course of his official duties and the electronic surveillance was authorized by and conducted pursuant to a search warrant or court order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
The president claims his campaign was spied upon, though Trump administration officials have said they have no specific evidence that anything illegal was done when the campaign came under FBI surveillance that was approved by a court.
As I learned yesterday for the first time I am embarassed to say, the FISA Court, is not a court, and so just one more avenue for Government to go after the citizenry with little or no oversight.
It is discouraging to know that it would only add up to a dozen or so of the key players, hanging from the cherry trees or a gallows in front of the Capitol to know that all of this fake news, political shenanigans, treasonous lying and deception would be OVER for at least a century. If only there was a system that would address the issue. Islam and the Communist Party would both be declared illegal and incompatible with our Constitution and way of life. Homosexuality would be back in the water closet from which it escaped with the appropriate penalties reattached. At that point we might even be awaiting the second coming of the Lord.
...and so why is it I don’t see a link to Conservative Treehouse? Is this just more fake news?
What about upscaling the losers you have mentioned to the ones above them that should be the ones dangling from the lamp posts.
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