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Trump’s Cover-Up Accelerates
Atlantic Magazine ^ | May 23, 2019 | David Frum

Posted on 05/23/2019 10:09:59 PM PDT by Reverend Wright

Trump directed his attorney general to declassify documents in an effort to depict Donald Trump’s campaign as a victim of improper surveillance in 2016. Trump tweeted that the attorney general “requested” these powers. That may even be true. But Trump has been demanding such an investigation of U.S. intelligence agencies since long before Barr got the top law-enforcement job. Barr is compliant and complicit, but the idea is all Trump’s.

The declassification process will be selective, of course, in service to a predetermined narrative. ...

Who will trust or credit in any way the integrity of a Barr-led investigation? The intelligence agencies found evidence that alarmed them enough about the campaign’s Russia connections to justify a request for warrants. A federal court reviewed that evidence and authorized and reauthorized it. Will that evidence be declassified?

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


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KEYWORDS: coverup; davidfrum; fisa; trump
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To: bagster

41 posted on 05/23/2019 11:55:24 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

LOL... that’s great!


42 posted on 05/23/2019 11:56:37 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Reverend Wright

Cover up appears to be the phrase of the day.


43 posted on 05/24/2019 12:13:52 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (Trump: MAGA Biden: MAMA)
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To: Reverend Wright
This nugget is puzzling. Do they really not know what’s about to happen to them?

Who will trust or credit in any way the integrity of a Barr-led investigation? The intelligence agencies found evidence that alarmed them enough about the campaign’s Russia connections to justify a request for warrants. A federal court reviewed that evidence and authorized and reauthorized it. Will that evidence be declassified?
44 posted on 05/24/2019 12:15:02 AM PDT by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done things in my life I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
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To: thoughtomator

He is, the commie SOB!


45 posted on 05/24/2019 12:17:55 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Reverend Wright

Okay, it’s clear this writer is on some hardcore street drugs, so I guess the real question is; does he smoke his crack pipe 10 times a day or 15 times and does he take his first puff before his morning piss or right after?


46 posted on 05/24/2019 1:15:04 AM PDT by Boomer
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To: Reverend Wright

Bwahahahaha

Excellent points


47 posted on 05/24/2019 1:15:33 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Reverend Wright
Throwing open the windows and putting everything out there is the SocialDemocrat idea of a "coverup." It has to be a coverup. SocDem would do anything like that and so, obviously, no one else would either unless they were covering something up, like maybe the SocDem narrative of the moment, by burying it.
48 posted on 05/24/2019 1:54:56 AM PDT by arthurus (f)
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To: Reverend Wright
“This whole thing is illegitimate because the declassification process is going to be SELECTIVE. They’re only going to declassify the classified material — not the rest of it!”

Or something like that. :-P

49 posted on 05/24/2019 2:33:39 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.")
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To: Reverend Wright
Black is White....Good is Bad.....Transparency is a Cover-Up!

The Democrats are all followers of the Prince of LIES....SATAN!

50 posted on 05/24/2019 2:34:24 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: mbrfl

David Frump is a CANADIAN LOSER! He has DEAD EYES, also.


51 posted on 05/24/2019 2:36:17 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: dfwgator

I am considering adding Ann Coulter to that list.


52 posted on 05/24/2019 2:37:58 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (Trump: MAGA Biden: MAMA)
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To: Reverend Wright
SHAME ON YOU DAVID FROMM

One misstatement after another:

: The intelligence agencies found evidence that alarmed them enough about the campaign’s Russia connections to justify a request for warrants.

The intelligence agencies CREATED evidence by dangles, honeypots, and bogus "dossiers."

A federal court reviewed that evidence and authorized and reauthorized it.

A federal court was deceived by lies of omission and commission.

Will that evidence be declassified?

The idea that the FBI agents and Department of Justice officers who presented the evidence to the FISA court should be trusted but the William Barr investigation should not is preposterous on its face.

Barr mischaracterized the content of the Mueller report in his letter summarizing its conclusions.

No he did not. Nor has from cited a specific instance. Mother did not say that the content of the "summary" was inaccurate. Muller has subsequently remained silent, a condition impossible to believe if his investigation was being mischaracterized.

He set aside Mueller’s reluctance to interpret the evidence of obstruction of justice, instead taking the decision upon himself—and decided in his boss’s favor.

Attorney General Barr corrected a violation of policy committed by Muller and only did his duty in making a decision which Muller had improperly refused to do.

He held his peace as the president used his bully pulpit to falsely claim over more than a month that a report nobody else was allowed to see absolved him of wrongdoing, when the report did no such thing.

A) the report did in fact absolved Trump of wrongdoing involving "collusion" and the Attorney General's conclusion, part of a report that was his and not Muller's, also absolved the president of wrongdoing.

B) So what? The Attorney General is under no obligation to parse presidential utterances. The whole report, absent less than 2% of the allegations concerning obstruction have been made public, so what is the harm? After two years of vilification of the president and leaks from the investigations, the president enjoyed two months to tell the truth.

And now Barr is now tasked to declassify documents as he thinks fit to support conclusions already whistled up by Trump?

There is prima facie evidence of wrongdoing which compels the release of these documents, contrary to illegally contrived "facts" which prompted Muller's investigation.

fight to suppress documents properly subpoenaed by Congress

Fight to protect the office of the presidency by claiming executive privilege which is done by presidents beginning with George Washington and extending through Barack Obama. This is a constitutional question and the current president has a duty to protect the office of the presidency for all future presidents.

then pick and choose U.S. national secrets to defame career professionals who sought to protect the integrity of the nation’s elections against foreign adversaries who manipulated those elections in Trump’s favor.

The president, ex officio, has the power to declassify any and all secrets. It is unlikely that any useful or important national secrets will be unmasked, rather the nefarious actions of the CIA, the FBI, the State Department and the Department of Justice will be unmasked. If sources and methods are also unmasked, an unlikely event, it will be a small price to pay for exposing the biggest national scandal in American history.

There is no evidence that any foreign government actually manipulated any election in Trump's favor.

There is evidence, however, that at least two allied nations did manufacture evidence to throw the election in Hillary's favor.


53 posted on 05/24/2019 2:49:52 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

Good writeup correcting the specific phrases that Washington insiders use to convince themselves of their own lies.

In his mind, Mueller , Comey, McCabe, McCain, Nadler, Shiff, are bravely standing up to an illegal hate-filled white capitalist pig.


54 posted on 05/24/2019 3:06:38 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: Reverend Wright

David Frum. Pffft!


55 posted on 05/24/2019 3:28:36 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: faithhopecharity

“WHAT did PDJT allegedly cover up? they never say of course.”

They never say. Of course, we expect that lie from her and her coven. But WHY doesn’t even one reporter ask Nancy what he covered up and how? Not even one! There must be one honest reporter in the crowd.


56 posted on 05/24/2019 3:32:42 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: cpdiii

“He did not need this job. Our nation needed him.”

If he succeeds in exposing and prosecuting these vile traitors, he’ll be one of the few people who’ll be able to say he did his most important work after retirement.


57 posted on 05/24/2019 3:36:47 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: mbrfl
or a patriot

Isn't he Canadian?

58 posted on 05/24/2019 3:36:49 AM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: Reverend Wright
Generally speaking, folks engaged in a cover-up tend to hide information, not make it public.

And by the way, what, precisely, is POTUS allegedly covering up, anyway? CrazyNancy never did explain that.
59 posted on 05/24/2019 4:17:19 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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To: nathanbedford

Excellent post!

Thank you for breaking it all down.


60 posted on 05/24/2019 4:24:23 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny (Here is the script for our breaking Secret Service story)
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