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 ...
What exactly is he covering up?
I don’t give publications like the Atlantic any clicks.
How is ‘declassification’ a ‘coverup’.
Those would seem to be antonyms.
Frum.
100% wrong about everything all the time, never held accountable for his stupid, WRONG statements and predictions.
Massive, massive dumb@ss.
later
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