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DONALD TRUMP GIVES WILLIAM BARR POWER TO DECLASSIFY INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION IN 'A CORRUPT
newsweek.com ^ | 5/24/2019 | ALEXANDRA HUTZLER

Posted on 05/24/2019 12:55:22 PM PDT by ransomnote

Full Title: DONALD TRUMP GIVES WILLIAM BARR POWER TO DECLASSIFY INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION IN 'A CORRUPT ACT OF POLITICAL RETRIBUTION,' EXPERTS SAY

Donald Trump has given Attorney General William Barr permission to declassify intelligence information about the origins of the Russia investigation, a move legal experts say is a gross abuse of power.

“In a corrupt act of political retribution, our president has ordered his utterly compliant attorney general to root out Deep State demons that exist only in the unhinged mind of our nation's leader,” Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor, told Newsweek.

The White House released a statement on Thursday announcing the declassification, claiming that it “will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred” during the 2016 election.

Trump’s order also demanded that intelligence agencies fully cooperate with the Justice Department’s latest probe into the origin of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian election meddling and “surveillance activities” during the presidential election.

Bradley Moss, a national security law expert, told Newsweek that this represents “an unprecedented set of actions by the president.”

“It is virtually unheard of for the attorney general to have such expansive declassification authority,” Moss said. “That it is being provided to Barr here, in a politically-driven inquiry into the president’s adversaries, raises serious concerns that the power will be abused to allow for selective and cherry-picked declassifications.”

Trump’s latest order for declassification and cooperation from the intelligence community is a direct contrast to his approach to the congressional oversight into his administration and family business. He previously told his team not to cooperate with subpoenas or requests issued by House Democrats.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


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KEYWORDS: barr; declassification; declassify; fbi; fisa; impeachment; postedseveraltimes; trum
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To: ransomnote

The louder our enemies scream about this the clearer it is that it’s important. When evidence actually starts to emerge in a meaningful way they’ll scream even louder because they’ll have to. For the same reason that everyone screams: because it hurts.

Faster please


21 posted on 05/24/2019 1:12:52 PM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
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To: Freedom4US

I think there was a good article about ‘experts’ last week.


22 posted on 05/24/2019 1:13:25 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: Salvey

I agree, if there is no there...there, what’s the problem.
The problem is that there is 30-40% of the population that fervently believes that if they don’t get their way, everybody who doesn’t think like them needs to be reeducated or killed.


23 posted on 05/24/2019 1:14:26 PM PDT by scope721
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To: ransomnote

Stop tweeting, start arresting.


24 posted on 05/24/2019 1:14:50 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: ransomnote
... a gross abuse of power.

Aren't these the same people who demanded to see EVERYTHING?

25 posted on 05/24/2019 1:14:57 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: A strike

Whats wrong with exposing the Stalinist abuses of power; American’s rights, liberties and freedoms that the BHO marxist muslim coalition took full advantage of?????

What? They have something to hide???

The don’t need to worry no one can shout impeach 44, impeach 44.

Worst part is that had Hillary won, most of this would not have come out, it would have all been swept under the carpet.


26 posted on 05/24/2019 1:15:05 PM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: ransomnote

How can declassification (in other words releasing actual facts) be “retribution” unless the facts prove that the people crying about retribution actually did something terribly wrong?


27 posted on 05/24/2019 1:15:17 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: ransomnote

They (democrats, media, and deep state bureaucrats), are starting to squeal.

Time for a pig pickin’

5.56mm


28 posted on 05/24/2019 1:15:58 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: ransomnote
EXPERTS SAY

Somebody is shting bricks.

Payback is hell.

The article headline suggests there is something to be paid back.

Guess they didn't think it through before broadcasting.

29 posted on 05/24/2019 1:23:59 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Red Badger

“Wrong thread?.”

Possibly thread dyslexia...


30 posted on 05/24/2019 1:26:08 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: SpaceBar
Like cockroaches under a flood light.

I love that visual in my happy little daydreams.

31 posted on 05/24/2019 1:26:13 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: himno hero

agreed, think you missed my point


32 posted on 05/24/2019 1:29:09 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: Eddie01

Really wish they would follow this all the way to its origins.

https://canadafreepress.com/article/dnc-failed-to-certify-obama-as-eligible-in-most-states1

Usurpers don’t follow laws or Constitutions.


33 posted on 05/24/2019 1:29:28 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ransomnote

More libturd projection? Likely.

Time for more Popcorn...


34 posted on 05/24/2019 1:36:19 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. Mr Trump, we've got your six.)
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To: Freedom4US

What a target rich environment these experts provide.


35 posted on 05/24/2019 1:41:16 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

If their coup had succeeded, then they would have put President Trump and his family in prison for the rest of their lives.

All because he won an election.

What are they so afraid of?

This is more than a hunger for power they are genuinely afraid.


36 posted on 05/24/2019 1:44:49 PM PDT by crusher2013
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To: ransomnote

Liberal checklist:

Keeps classification = hiding something.
Unclassifies = corrupt.

And they really think they still have respect.

They are scared. Properly so. I’ll not rest until the guillotine is resurrected and these slime suffer the only fitting and proper punishment.


37 posted on 05/24/2019 1:47:53 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: ransomnote

“ordered his utterly compliant attorney general to root out Deep State demons that exist only in the unhinged mind of our nation’s leader”

Gee, if they don’t exist and there was no wrongdoing, the left should be celebrating since Trump will just be embarrassing himself. Instead, they are panicking.


38 posted on 05/24/2019 1:53:11 PM PDT by Boogieman
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BUT....sources I follow say that 5-EYES (FVEY) was being abused by the Deep State to spy on POTUS and others (UK directly or US Deep Staters traveling to UK and given access) so I guess I know which side Malcolm Nance is REALLY on.

39 posted on 05/24/2019 1:59:59 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

I could have bought Newspeak for a dollar, but at the time I thought it was too expensive.

Little did I know that it was destined to become the nation’s premier humor publication.


40 posted on 05/24/2019 2:07:40 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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