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To: ethom

Trump has two bullets in his gun he has not fired yet.

One, he can de-classify the stuff that DOJ has been concealing from Congress.

Two, he can wait a bit and allow the attorneys for the Russian facebook defenders to have discovery. Sunlight is a great disinfectant.


67 posted on 05/11/2018 9:44:31 AM PDT by lurk
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To: lurk
Check out this possible narrative here ...

1. The public stories you see about this battle between the House Intelligence Committee and the DOJ are nothing more than a charade designed to bring public attention to an issue, person, or point of fact that is allegedly in dispute between the two.

2. Every news report about this "battle" includes some pretty detailed information about what exactly a given House subpoena to the DOJ is requesting. The most recent reports about this "FBI asset" the House is seeking to identify in the redacted document from Rosenstein to Mueller outlining the responsibilities of the special counsel in investigating "Russian collusion" in the 2016 election.

3. What better way to guarantee major media coverage than to fabricate a pitched battle between the House committee and the DOJ that even includes threats of impeachment of top DOJ officials?

4. The House committee doesn't really have any interest in getting their hands on this information. What they're really doing is making a big deal out of this "dispute" with the DOJ, for the purpose of getting a pretty detailed description of the information in these redacted documents out in the public eye.

5. The House committee doesn't really have any interest in making the public aware of this information. What they really want to do is telegraph its existence to specific people who: (A) have a great interest in the redacted information, and (B) have a lot of legal leverage to get their hands on it.

6. Who might these "specific people" be? We may have seen a perfect example of them last week in the court proceedings in the Eastern Virginia and D.C. District Courts: The lawyers representing the defendants in the various criminal cases Mueller's team is prosecuting. Can it possibly be a mere coincidence that the redacted document mentioned above in Item #2 is one of the specific documents listed in the discovery demands by the lawyers for the Russian company that is among the defendants in Mueller's election interference case?

93 posted on 05/11/2018 11:00:13 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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