Posted on 05/19/2017 7:13:35 AM PDT by blueplum
(CNN)Senate Republicans and Democrats are split over whether they can tell the press and public what they learn from deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at a highly-anticipated briefing Thursday afternoon on how and why former FBI Director James Comey and was fired. Republicans insist the briefing, which will be held in a secure room known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIFF, will be classified and therefore anything senators learn in it must be kept secret.
That is upsetting Democrats, who demanded the briefing after Comey's surprise firing by President Donald Trump last week, and who say they want -- and intend -- to inform the public about the non-classified parts of what they hear.
"Frankly, in terms of it being a briefing that can restore public confidence in the process that led to the firing of the FBI director, if we are literally unable to make any comment about anything, it won't be a very useful briefing," Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told CNN Wednesday.
Senators are generally highly aware of what they are allowed to say when leaving a sensitive briefing like this. Disclosure of classified information is against the law ...
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Only if it smears President Trump.
It’s not so simple, even if they control the propaganda machine.
why is anything about a public firing classified?
....Only if it smears President Trump...
That’s a guarantee it will be divulged. It’s all out war on the President. We are witnessing a coup d’ etat.
Can they? Certainly they can, and will, if it aids in their project of neutralizing their primary enemy in the world, Donald Trump.
Don't say it as if DJT is incapable of defending himself.
Koons is a bloody focktard ..
There are no secrets on Capitol Hill with so many foreign agents working as staffers.
Ted Barrett wants us to believe democrats won’t ‘leak’? Oh, gimme a break. They’ll leak if it hurts Trump...and CNN will run with it if it hurts Trump.
That’s the only priciple and only standard of the scum ...
Was it classified, or confidential.
I don’t know about Washington, but in the local government world you cannot talk about contracts or HR issues in an open session.
It could have just been a “polite” way to deal with it.
I am dying to find out what Flynn was doing that got him in so much heat.
And paid trolls will use it...
That's the only principle and only standard of the scum ...
Trust me - if the the corrupt elites find something that hurts Trump it’ll be ‘leaked’ as the scum is walking out of the room.
We know who the deep state is, we know who their butt boys in the press are... and we’re not falling for their fake concern... or fake ethics. They will spill if it hurts traditional Americans or Trump.
well stated!
Trump and his staff have to stop catering to the whims of the RATS. Sessions recuses himself from the Russkie investigation, then they bring in Rosenstein to run it, he succumbs to RAT demands for special prosecutor, while long time RAT activist McCabe is in charge of FBI, then Rosenstein brings in Mueller to supervise the witch hunt.Now he’s looking at a longtime lib RAT for the FBI to gain favor with the RATS and media. Trump is surrounded by detractors who want to take him down.
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