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Trump Attorney on WaPo Report: ‘The Leak of This Information Is a Crime’
CNS News ^ | 06/15/2017 | Susan Jones

Posted on 06/15/2017 4:38:09 PM PDT by ForYourChildren

“This Russian investigation has gone nowhere, so they’re coming up with new charges,” said Jay Sekulow, one of President Trump’s attorneys.

Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, was reacting to a report in Thursday’s Washington Post that says Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating President Trump “for possible obstruction of justice.”

The report, based on five anonymous sources, describes the latest (alleged) development in the investigation as a “major turning point.”

The newspaper said investigators also are looking for evidence of possible financial crimes among Trump associates.

“If this is true that five individuals inside of the United States government, whether it was the FBI or the Special Counsel’s office -- wherever it came from -- leaked information about the president of the United States to the Washington Post, information about a supposed investigation, that is a crime,” Sekulow told Fox News’s Sean Hannity Wednesday night.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coup; crime; fakenews; leak; media; msm; obstruction; trump; wapo
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To: ForYourChildren

It’s high time the no good SOBs in the republican party started backing Trump up! They are leaving him out in the wind alone.


21 posted on 06/15/2017 5:11:40 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Cboldt

Did you see where ethics complaints have been filed in DC and NY against one of trumps lawyers. I figured that was coming.....lets see if they try to do it to Jay as well.


22 posted on 06/15/2017 5:13:40 PM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Sekulow should be Attorney General, Sessions is mister wimpy.


23 posted on 06/15/2017 5:14:50 PM PDT by heights
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To: RummyChick
-- Did you see where ethics complaints have been filed in DC and NY against one of trumps lawyers. --

Nope.

24 posted on 06/15/2017 5:15:32 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: ForYourChildren

Some of the matters President T should appoint “special counsels” to investigate ASAP, each seperately:

1.) DC Pedophelia
2.) Clinton Foundation
3.) Obama Spy Gate
4.) The Federal Reserve

Little if any immunity but for a star witness or two;

Start Indicting!

That should put the fear of God back into the Swamp...


25 posted on 06/15/2017 5:15:58 PM PDT by DEEP_e
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To: ForYourChildren

Then for God’s sake DO something about it! Wake Sessions up from his nap and effing CHARGE someone with a crime!

Wake the hell up!


26 posted on 06/15/2017 5:17:11 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: ForYourChildren

I think they know they’ve got nothing, so they’re leaking crap trying to goad Trump into firing Mueller, which they would then turn into yet another made-up crisis.


27 posted on 06/15/2017 5:17:24 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: mombonn

Same here. He is so good at what he does. Maybe they are keeping the criminals, AKA Mueller, Comey, pick-a-lib for some reason unknown to us.


28 posted on 06/15/2017 5:18:55 PM PDT by madison10
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To: All

Notice it’s almost always the WaPos. Over and over they are in possession of illegal docs can’t something be done about it?


29 posted on 06/15/2017 5:20:02 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: butlerweave

Has Hillary’s security clearance been terminated?

If not, why not?


30 posted on 06/15/2017 5:22:55 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Carl Vehse

DAG Rosenstein is looking dirty.


31 posted on 06/15/2017 5:23:49 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: heights

Yeah but WaPo and NYT have been reporting based on leaks all sorts of crap that never happened


32 posted on 06/15/2017 5:25:05 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudslo)
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

2) Opening all government files and appointing a special investigator to investigate the JFK assassination.... ‘

Let 4Chan chew on the data and see what pops up.


33 posted on 06/15/2017 5:25:07 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: mombonn

I still wish Trump would get Joe and Victoria


34 posted on 06/15/2017 5:26:33 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudslo)
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To: ForYourChildren
Maybe the Trump team is outsmarting these people by taking a page right out of the Clinton playbook.

During the Starr investigation, Clinton cronies would routinely leak information to the media about the grand jury proceedings or other aspects of the investigation, then run to the nearest MSM jackasses, breathlessly criticize the Starr team for leaking this information, and then call for Starr's resignation.

And most of the sh!t they were leaking wasn't even true, anyway.

What goes around, comes around -- eh? LMAO.

35 posted on 06/15/2017 5:26:37 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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U.S. Attorneys' Manual - Criminal Resource Manual - USAM Section 1665 - Protection Of Government Property -- Disclosure Of Confidential Government Information

To establish a violation of this section, the government must prove that: (1) the defendant was an officer or employee of the United States; (2) the defendant disclosed confidential information; and (3) the defendant knew that the information so disclosed was confidential "in the sense that its disclosure is forbidden by agency official policy (or by regulation or law).

There is tension between 18 USC 1905 and FOIA.

Link above includes case law cites.

36 posted on 06/15/2017 5:26:42 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

No more special counsels. It is constitutionally iffy anyway

DOJ should just do their job


37 posted on 06/15/2017 5:28:11 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudslo)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

We are not a turd world country. If you want to see blood running in the streets move to Chicago or Baltimore


38 posted on 06/15/2017 5:31:07 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudslo)
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To: ForYourChildren
Even if the U.S. Justice Department identified the "leakers" tonight, nobody is going to be charged with any crimes.

If recent history is any indication, the culprits will have the perfect defense in this case: They can't be charged with leaking confidential or classified information if the information they're "leaking" to the media isn't even true.

39 posted on 06/15/2017 5:40:31 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Nifster

Certainly the Wa Post wouldn’t make up non existent sources? /s


40 posted on 06/15/2017 5:49:07 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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