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Gregg Jarrett: If Rod Rosenstein defies Trump's order to declassify documents, he should be fired
Fox News ^ | September 18, 2018 | Gregg Jarrett

Posted on 09/19/2018 1:06:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

President Trump has ordered that numerous documents involving the Russia investigation be declassified. The records have long been sought by Congress under lawful subpoenas. Yet, the FBI and Department of Justice have consistently obstructed the release of these materials under the guise of “classified” secrets. This is a convenient alibi all too frequently employed to cover-up wrongdoing and abuse of authority by those we entrust to uphold the law.

These days, overzealous government officials automatically designate nearly all matters as national security risks, regardless of whether they truly are.

Whenever the FBI orders Chinese take-out, it is labeled “top secret” because… you know… it involves the Chinese. False classification has reached absurd proportions.

How do we know? Every time information is declassified we learn that the material should never have been classified to begin with. It was nothing more than a subterfuge. Here are two recent examples:

In July, a substantial portion of the wiretap warrant applications presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was declassified. It turns out that no vital sources or methods were revealed in a way that jeopardized either national security or the FBI’s secret investigative techniques. Instead, we learned that much of the application to spy on a Trump campaign associate, Carter Page, was based on an unverified “dossier” that was funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and composed by a British spy, Christopher Steele, who was fired by the FBI for lying.....

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: declassification; deepstate; obstructionistdems; rosenstein; trump; trumpdoj; trumprussia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about arrested?


41 posted on 09/19/2018 5:40:03 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: LouisianaJoanof Arc
Rosenstein doesn't even have to be fired. The position of Deputy Attorney General was never established through legislation by Congress. It was created internally within the DOJ through an executive branch memorandum back in the early 1950s.

President Trump could issue an executive order tomorrow that changes the Deputy AG's responsibilities so that he's only responsible for overseeing the janitorial staff at DOJ headquarters.

42 posted on 09/19/2018 5:44:37 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will)
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To: SirLurkedalot

Google does do that to “Irish Bob” Beto O’rourke. No mention of his DUI and fleeing.


43 posted on 09/19/2018 5:55:34 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: Gene Eric
He’ll cooperate. He’s not an idiot.

How do we know that? This is as shady and shadowy a guy as I've ever observed. All we know for certain about him is that he's a true blue Deep State apparatchik.


44 posted on 09/19/2018 5:56:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s like the old days when you’d tell your kid to go get a switch to use on himself.................slow walking.....................


45 posted on 09/19/2018 6:13:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q..........................Future Proves Past..............WWG1WGA.....................)
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To: LouisianaJoanof Arc

Or . . .

Reassign him . . .

to the Puerto Rico Field Office as an Agent.


46 posted on 09/19/2018 6:24:44 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: Gene Eric

“He’ll cooperate. He’s not an idiot.”

IMHO he is going to be fired anyways.


47 posted on 09/19/2018 6:26:12 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He should have been fired already.


48 posted on 09/19/2018 6:27:21 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (If we disarmed democrats gun violence would decrease by 90%.)
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To: Pravious

My reply would merit a response from the SS.

I’m boiling inside.


49 posted on 09/19/2018 6:39:52 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: VRWCarea51

See #49...I’m so pissed off I could spit fire.

Damn all of these scum-sucking traitors to the deepest pits of Hell.

God have mercy.


50 posted on 09/19/2018 6:49:38 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: AndyJackson

“No excuse for Jeff to drag this out for one more minute. “

Who said anything is being dragged out? Last I heard the fourth Carter Page FISA application renewal is being released by the end of the week with the specific pages requested.

Then the Bruce Ohr FBI interviews will be released next week.

Nothing has occurred to indicate that won’t happen other than John Brennan crying publicly that someone not cooperate and save him from prison.


51 posted on 09/19/2018 7:05:09 AM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rosenstein should have been fired as soon as it was discovered that he signed the FISA warrant application under false pretenses.

Fire him yesterday already!


52 posted on 09/19/2018 7:07:03 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The documents will be released or a contingent of US Marines will arrest several dozen liberal fascists at both DOJ and at the FBI.

And it won’t be pretty.

And I would fully support the president doing it.

Sedition is a crime.


53 posted on 09/19/2018 7:09:56 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The items will be released and this will be bad news for the Dems, all this winning is great. Oh, this will be at about the same time Kavanaugh is approved!


54 posted on 09/19/2018 7:29:56 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: romanesq

why isn’t there an immediate release?....everything should have been done immediately, not next week...


55 posted on 09/19/2018 7:37:42 AM PDT by cherry (official troll)
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To: SirLurkedalot

Wikipedia page on him is total smear.


56 posted on 09/19/2018 7:51:53 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flaming Conservative

He’s not the only one; many fine upstanding people are getting shafted by Wikipediots.


57 posted on 09/19/2018 8:02:37 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: romanesq

Why drag it out. Everyone knew this was going to happen. Just do it.


58 posted on 09/19/2018 8:07:38 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: savedbygrace

Yes, I like your thinking....

Puerto Rico (will be sweating in his new office) /heh heh


59 posted on 09/19/2018 8:15:02 AM PDT by LouisianaJoanof Arc
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wray and Rosenstein both need to go. And Sessions.


60 posted on 09/19/2018 8:17:23 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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