What’s REALLY telling is that the media and the democrats (ok, same thing) should be GLADLY welcoming this because golly shouldn’t it PROVE there was a good reason?
Trump ordered that certain documents, portions of documents and text messages from Srozk, L. Page, McCabe and others be declassified. Apparently the order was given to Dan Coates, the Director of National Intelligence. Now the deep state is dragging their feet, as usual, and nothing has been released.
If the documents are declassified, I’m fuzzy as to whether not they were be released to the public. According to Catherine Herridge if they are made public, and they follow normal procedure, they will be posted on the FBI website. My SWAG is that there’s, at best, a 50% chance that we’ll see them before Trump returns to private citizenship.
What’s next? I hope lots of jail time for some folks!
“What will be disclosed is that there was no basis for these FISA Warrants, that the important information was kept from the court, there’s going to be a disproportionate influence of the (Fake) Dossier. Basically you have a counter terrorism tool used to spy on a presidential... ....campaign, which is unprecedented in our history.”
Once the redacted texts and FISA are released it stops the foot dragging once and for all. The fake news will ignore, but the FBI and DOJ did not want it done this way...their plan was for IG Horowitz to do another report like the Crooked server and obfuscate with words like “political “ bias, when bias is bias....
A directive that something be declassified doesn’t mean immediate release to the public. That something still has to be reviewed manually for other protections from release to the public. Of course, some administrations have had folks who forgo this process and just picked up the phone to a sympathetic reporter and leaked like crazy. Sometimes these things are done with official permission, sometimes explicitly against official permission.
For example, the President can’t order the release of a government employee’s personal information, so for example all of those texts have to be scrubbed to make sure someone’s birthday isn’t mentioned. There are other things that get redacted in public releases, and depending on who does the scrubbing and signoffs of the final documents, this has been used to hide information useful and worthy of public release because it can be argued it is better to react too much and have the redactions challenged later than get in a lawsuit for not redacting enough.
Something noteworthy here: embarrassment of the government or a government employee is not a valid reason for withholding information from public release.
After more direct request from the President, a mid-level bureaucrat will openly defy the instructions to release documents. This will be a deliberate provocation intended to demonstrate that the President cannot fire anyone in the Civil Service even when they are insubordinate (they will pick a lower-grade staffer who can claim Union protection)
Then a whole bunch of the documents will be leaked anyway by other bureaucrats who are factional rivals.
The leaked documents will absolutely confirm what we already know and suspect. There will be some things in the documents that are much worse than anybody suspected.
If we actually had "Rule-of-Law" then a large number of senior officials would be facing prison terms - or even harsher sentences.
But this will not be settled in Courts of Law.
Everything goes back to the clinton Foundations. They stole $Billions. $6 Billion stolen from State Department. Obama got his cut. The question is how long can the DS and Rinos continue to coverup this criminal mess? Almost 2 years and no one will call HRC out. Trump wants to but Sessions won’t let him. Of Note: Sessions is trying to “unrecuse”. why? Right after Trump ordered Docs be released. Does anyone think we will ever see those Docs?
As long as the deep state controls DoJ, Mueller marches on, leaks and lies will continue, and the traitor who is suppose to run things there keeps up with his nap times.
Given his inexperience in federal governance it is not surprising that Trump got snookered with some of his initial appointments. It has and continues to be his Achilles heel.
Two points:
1. Dan Coats will follow Trump’s order, pronto. How far and fast he gets, well, who knows.
2. Since Trump declared those docs are no longer classified, Nunes or other Congresscritters can release them on the House floor. Privacy rights, etc., don’t apply there. I’m sure they’ll make a quick, good faith effort anyway, but that may happen fast if Coats etc run into walls.