[Lakeside Granny]

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Robert Costa(WashPost) ‏

"Stripping the intel leaders of their ability to control information about sources and methods, and handing that power to political actors, could cause human agents to question whether their identity will be protected," Jeremy Bash tells Post. "This is dangerous territory."

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Philip Rucker ‏

House Judiciary Chairman Nadler tells @maddow that Robert Mueller wants to testify but only in private with a transcript released to the public. Nadler says Mueller doesn’t want to participate in a televised open hearing that could be a spectacle.

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Manu Raju ‏(CNN)

Nadler confirms our reporting from earlier this week. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/robert-mueller-testify-congress-negotiations/index.html … He has since rejected no fewer than half a dozen attempts in the halls to discuss this with him since then.

[pax_et_bonum]

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Jeff Carlson ‏

Tonight's announcement in relation to AG Barr lends new meaning to Trump's comments to Catherine Herridge on timing of declassification:

"Whenever they need it. Whenever they need it, I’ll be doing it. But I will be declassifying it. Everything.”

"Whenever they need it...."

Manu Raju ‏

Trump, who is telling his administration and former aides not to cooperate with Congress, orders the intelligence community to cooperate with Barr.

Jeff Carlson ‏

Guessing Manu is none too happy tonight

Mr Dirt ‏

He is ignoring it completely on his twitter timeline. Gonna be tough to spin everything that happened within the last couple of hours. Like Bannon said, flood the #MSM with so much that they cant get in front of it all. #MAGA #WINNING