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Justice Department hasn’t released Russia documents Trump ordered declassified on last day
Washington Examiner ^ | 15 October 2021 | Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter

Posted on 10/16/2021 3:05:38 AM PDT by blueplum

Two top Republican senators are demanding answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland because the Justice Department has failed to release anything in the “binder” of Crossfire Hurricane documents that former President Donald Trump ordered declassified during his last day in office.

The memo from Trump said he had “determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified to the maximum extent possible.” The FBI said in mid-January that the bureau had "identified the passages that it believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure.”...

...Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson said this week they are “seeking full transparency" on the steps Garland has taken to declassify the records, charging that the Justice Department...

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: christophersteele; chuckgrassley; comey; crossfirehurricane; doj; georgesoros; grassley; iowa; mccabe; merrickgarland; ronjohnson; russia; trump; wisconsin
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what's the hold up?
1 posted on 10/16/2021 3:05:38 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Why did Trump wait so long?


2 posted on 10/16/2021 3:06:28 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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He’s been fighting for their release since he fired Comey. But he was up against stonewalling from the DOJ, FBI, CIA, DNI, and 57 other ghost intel agencies. The article mentions one of the last kurfuffels was Oct ‘20 with Ratcliffe declassifying Brennan’s notes (or some of them anyway). Here’s the WE’s previous article on it:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-intel-chief-declassifies-john-brennan-notes-and-cia-referral-on-unverified-report-about-clinton-plan-to-create-trump-russia-scandal


3 posted on 10/16/2021 3:17:12 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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[DECLASS] (vomitus proiecto)


4 posted on 10/16/2021 3:22:27 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: blueplum

Trump had no obedience from the Obama deep staters


5 posted on 10/16/2021 3:22:38 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: JonPreston

Trump should have cut their budgets. That’s the only thing that gets the attention of swamp bureaucrats. Instead Trump gave the FIB A brand new $2 billion swamp HQ.

It’s pretty obvious now that Trump was mostly a figurehead POTUS with little real power due to the GOP’s role in tbe coup. The executive branch did whatever they wanted, basically.


6 posted on 10/16/2021 3:30:35 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Chickensoup

The bigger problem is that Trump had no political party on his flanks supporting him. He was riding solo in the swamp for his entire term.


7 posted on 10/16/2021 3:31:32 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: blueplum

Because those in the “Dept. of Justice are DIRTY.


8 posted on 10/16/2021 3:44:03 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Dementia Joe and the WhoreStacey, leaders of the Free world. ( F-you dementia Joe.))
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To: lodi90

Congress funds those agencies, not the President.

Any agency trying to subvert Trump would have all the money they had ever dreamed of.


9 posted on 10/16/2021 3:48:31 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Jim Noble

I realize that. Everything spirals down from one simple fact: the bipartisan nature of the coup. FIBBER enthusiasm for the coup would have gone down massively had they feared losing their jobs over it.

Instead, the GOP publicly signaled their support for the coup and here we are five years later. Trump on the golf course and 80 million Trump voters disenfranchised.


10 posted on 10/16/2021 4:01:31 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

I agree with you. The only political hope I have is that DJT returns to the White House and brings a blowtorch with him. Returning America to her citizens is a real long shot at this point, but one I hope for.


11 posted on 10/16/2021 4:10:39 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: blueplum

What’s the hold up? Hmmm...let me ponder that question and I’ll get back to you!


12 posted on 10/16/2021 4:56:16 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: blueplum

The Deep State does what the New World Order tells it to do. They don’t listen to pesky people like voters or presidents, unless it is in line with their commie philosophy.


13 posted on 10/16/2021 4:58:25 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: blueplum

Trump was no longer president on his last day. He was stripped of all powers January 7th in a palace coup stealth 25th.
Military in the streets... Check, and he didn’t order them there.
Seize the radio station... Check, banned from all social media so he could not communicate.
Half his cabinet immediately resigned...
Pence no longer went to the White House.
Trump orders after the 6th were simply ignored.

The house immediately impeached him and then Mitch waited till after he was gone to try him. Trump did not go to the fake inauguration, but the conspirators including Pence did.

Trump was told to sit silently and shut up. He was told the military and DOJ, FBI and Intel communities were no longer following his orders. That if he played ball, he could leave quietly. If he resisted in any way, including in speeches, the Senate would act on the impeachment by the end of the day, and he and his family would be arrested.

So that last day order was meaningless. He had no power.
The GOP ejected him with military support.


14 posted on 10/16/2021 6:38:03 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: blueplum

…. demanding answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland ….

Good luck with that.


15 posted on 10/16/2021 6:47:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: lodi90

And yet look at ALL he accomplished with one hand tied behind his back!


16 posted on 10/16/2021 6:49:52 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do t)
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To: blueplum

if you know who Sir Humphrey Appleby is, then you also know there is absolutely NO chance of EVER seeing this, or anything else “they” don’t want released.


17 posted on 10/16/2021 7:07:52 AM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: blueplum

FEAR of guilty evidence


18 posted on 10/16/2021 8:56:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: PghBaldy
You think it would have mattered if Trump had ordered the documents released six months earlier?

I doubt it.

19 posted on 10/16/2021 9:02:40 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: PghBaldy

That’s the real question.


20 posted on 10/16/2021 11:39:09 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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