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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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To: Reverend Wright

The Atlantic coverup article lacks gravitas

The Atlantic publisher is a conspirator and caan be jailed for conspiring to overthrow the government. There should be a warrant to examine all files and computers and e mails.


61 posted on 05/24/2019 4:28:29 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: nathanbedford

Well you see they don’t have much of a choice. “Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive”

The msm has been telling a story for two years now. What are they supposed to say?

Oops, we’ve been misleading you gullible leftists for two years?

Oops, we may have been wrong for the past two years?

Oops, sorry folks, we’re complicit in the attempted ousting of a duly elected US president?


62 posted on 05/24/2019 5:01:54 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: piasa
Only in liberal looney land is transparency a coverup..

It worked for the obambi regime

"Most transparent administration...not a smidgen...."

63 posted on 05/24/2019 5:15:51 AM PDT by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: Reverend Wright
Trump’s Cover-Up Accelerates

Trump directed his attorney general to declassify documents...

How does one reconcile these two statements?

Frum is an idiot...

64 posted on 05/24/2019 5:16:22 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Reverend Wright

The truth is now a cover-up and exposure is now hiding.


65 posted on 05/24/2019 5:19:36 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Reverend Wright

Collusion...

Obstruction...

Coverup...

What’s the next meme after this one faceplants?


66 posted on 05/24/2019 5:20:35 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: JParris

Frum is not a journalist. He’s a two dollar punk with an opinion. Nothing more.


67 posted on 05/24/2019 5:27:32 AM PDT by abbastanza
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To: DarthVader

Notice how the people with guaranteed jobs are willing to destroy the economy to maintain the status quo.


68 posted on 05/24/2019 5:31:09 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: faithhopecharity
" WHAT did PDJT allegedly cover up?"

The blackness in his heart. Which they are sure is there, based on strong evidence from Ms Cleo.

69 posted on 05/24/2019 6:40:47 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: JKOWBELLE

“What a pile of shit!”

There are many excellent and well-thought replies on this thread, quite outstanding ones...but yours gets to the crux of the matter best, with truth and brevity.


70 posted on 05/24/2019 6:56:16 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you...)
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To: Reverend Wright

Democrat scum will never admit to anything. The lies will get bigger and bolder as you see here.


71 posted on 05/24/2019 6:58:20 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: dp0622
“I’m just speechless at the utter gall.”

Utter gall is what makes the left what they are.

I’m still gasping at this week’s assertion (and apparently serious debate in the media) that the booming economy is all Obama’s handiwork.

72 posted on 05/24/2019 7:06:22 AM PDT by daler
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To: SpaceBar
You can almost smell the nervous perspiration of the author.

David Frum Up the Bum.

73 posted on 05/24/2019 7:09:21 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Reverend Wright
The intelligence agencies found evidence that alarmed them enough ...

The intelligence agencies MADE evidence that alarmed them enough ...

Fixed it.

74 posted on 05/24/2019 7:24:18 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: bray

Yes we do. Not one thing is being ignored and noted.


75 posted on 05/24/2019 7:25:16 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

So Trump is trying to cover things up by declassifying documents and making them available to the public????

Up is down. Ignorance is power. Speech is violence Th the Atlunatic’s Orwellian world.


76 posted on 05/24/2019 7:28:00 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird
Up is down. Ignorance is power. Speech is violence Th the Atlunatic’s Orwellian world.

Yep, it's like 1984 or Alice in wonderland as the media provides credibility to Nancy Pelosi accusing Trump of not having his faculties, or the House saying Trump covered up when he released the Mueller report - bizarro. These people should be shamed, instead the media promotes their nonsense as credible.

77 posted on 05/24/2019 7:31:14 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SpaceBar
You can almost smell the nervous perspiration of the author.


78 posted on 05/24/2019 7:48:36 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the true American way. --Donald Trump)
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To: Reverend Wright
Separated at birth?


79 posted on 05/24/2019 7:54:20 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the true American way. --Donald Trump)
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To: MayflowerMadam

well, so far that “one honest reporter in the crowd” hasn’t shown up


80 posted on 05/24/2019 9:54:02 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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