Hans Von Spakovsky (Screenshot)
Posted on 05/25/2018 12:30:17 PM PDT by jazusamo
3.43min video at link.
Former Justice Department (DOJ) official Hans Von Spakovsky says it’s illegal and unconstitutional for the DOJ and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to refuse to provide President Donald Trump and Congress with details of their Trump-Russia investigation’s use of a spy in Trump’s presidential campaign.
As the nation’s top law enforcement officer, Trump – and anyone working for him - have the indisputable right to anything they want to know about the Russia-Collusion investigation, Spakovsky explained in a Fox News interview Friday morning:
“The president is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. He has the full constitutional authority to be completely briefed on all aspects of this investigation, and that would include anyone working for him.”
Trump has the legal right to declassify and release the information, and Congress has every right to see it, so the FBI-DOJ effort to withhold the information is not only illegal – but, also suspicious – Spakovsky said:
“He (Trump) has the ability to declassify any information. And, here’s the thing everyone should remember: Congress has one hundred percent right to see all of this information because of its constitutional oversight authority.
“And, that’s why, DOJ and FBI’s constant delays and attempts to not give them information is just legally and constitutionally wrong.”
“And, it makes you wonder: what are they trying to hide?”
If true, that speaks volumes!!
Makes you wonder who else has been spied on????
The acid test question was proposed by some commentator the other day: if the FBI et al was so concerned about infiltration into our election process, why did they not also monitor the Hitlery campaign. Anyone ask Clapper et al about that and I bet all you get is crickets.
Brennan is an authority on lying as far as himself goes, he deserves a long stay in a federal slammer.
If you listen to Sharyl Attkisson, the spying has been going on since 2011. Even Mad Max Waters said Obama was gathering information on everybody.
Sessions is AWOL from the biggest scandal in American History.
As their behavior proves yet again, neither word means a damn thing to the scum who have been running the machinery of the US since the Clintons first walked in the door of the Whitehouse.
If they try to lock up Obama, there will be rioting in all the cities with large black populations
I’d love to see that question asked of many of these active and former supposed leaders in the DOJ, FBI and intel agencies.
So if a POTUS can do this without getting it approved does this mean he escapes any and all prosecution?
I think he skates!
Let’s just keep in mind......Obama “said”— Trump was in danger, so Obama sprang to his defense (snort) and planted a (cough) “informant” in Trump’s campaign.
So why didnt Obama inform Trump he was in danger and needed protection? NOT TELLING is proof-positive, Obama was up to no good.
PAUSE TO REFLECT Obama’s latest effort to cover-up the spying —— saying it was to “protect” Trump.
ANALYSIS: IF-—big IF-—protecting Trump was the reason for spying.....why was Trump not advised of this? Taken another way, it was criminal not to tell Trump he was in danger and needed protection.
NOTE WELL: Prior to the formal signing of Section 2.3, greater latitude ALREADY existed within the White House in regards to collection of information – especially in relation to the Trump Campaign. However, once signed, Section 2.3 granted broad latitude to inter-agency sharing of information.
But by the time Obama’s new executive order was signed on January 3, 2017, all that information was already in the possession of Obama White House.
Thus, Susan Rice’s January 20, 2017 email to herself takes on an even greater significance b/c no one was ever supposed to know about the REAL meaning of Obama’s retroactive CYA.....until Rice stupidly laid it all out in an official email.
Donald J. Trump;
@realDonaldTrump
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7:20 AM - May 3, 2013
If you read Susan’s Rice weird email to herself, along with Senator Grassley’s letter to Rice, it is obvious that it is a CYA memo. But the question is, whose A is being C’d?
Most attention, so far, has focused on the first two paragraphs of the email, which describe a meeting that occurred around two weeks earlier.
The participants included
<><>Barack Obama,
<><>Joe Biden,
<><>James Comey,
<><> Sally Yates–who turns up like a bad penny whenever skulduggery is afoot–
<><>and Rice:
Rice made sure to underscore that Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. Rice writes Obama stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
This is pure boilerplate.
It represents, obviously, the company line. But Rice did not write her email to cover Barack Obama’s rear end. If she or
anyone else had wanted to document the claim that Obama said to proceed “by the book,” the appropriate course would have been an official memo that copied others who were present and would have gone into the file. (My guess is that such a memo was written, but we haven’t seen it.)
The important part of the email is not the paragraph that purports to exonerate Obama, but the paragraphs that follow: “From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”
The next paragraph of the email remains classified and has been redacted. The email concludes:
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.
CONCLUSION Why did Susan Rice send herself an email purporting to document this part of the meeting? Because she was C’ing her own A. Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed to “share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team.
Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.
Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.
If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the
new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.
What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new administration? We can easily surmise that the fact that the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party; that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele; that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele; and that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.
There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.
The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything.
And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.
Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.
Indeed. Every day I think this will be the day the real truth becomes public. But it doesn’t happen. It’s sobering and frightening to see how profoundly corrupt our government has become. It’s beyond the usual, normal and expected level.
The government is hiding key information from us. It needs to stop. Whatever it is, we need to be told the truth.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED, FOLKS. THIS IS IT.
Start of Rex' comments as follows:
1. I think I may have discovered what the DOJ & FBI are desperately trying to hide.
It was POTUS Obama himself who authorized the use of surveillance on Team Trump.
2. The surveillance may have been conducted by UK intelligence - and then fed back to Obama’s IC thugs, for unmasking in the US.
Let me explain.
3. Here's the thing.
An American POTUS can LEGALLY authorize electronic surveillance 'without a court order...to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year’.
Yes, it's true. Obama had legal authorization to by-pass the normal court vetting process.
4. Such power lies in 50 U.S. Code § 1802 -
Electronic surveillance authorization without court order; https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1802 …
5. ‘Foreign intelligence information’ in relation to a ‘US person’ (eg Team Trump) is information that’s necessary for the US to protect against attack, hostile acts, sabotage, terrorism, as well as ‘clandestine intel activities’ /...
6. /...by a foreign power, or agent of a foreign power (Russia), OR information relevant to the national defense/ security of the US, or the conduct of the foreign affairs of the US.
7. Now, this authorization by POTUS (eg Obama) requires certification by the AG (eg Lynch - DOJ) that MUST be lodged with ‘the court’ (eg FISC):
'The (AG)+ shall immediately transmit under seal to the court ...(FISC).. a copy of his certification.'
8. So if my analysis is correct, a copy of that certification is currently under seal AT LEAST with the FISC & DOJ.
THAT'S what they're trying to desperately hide.
9. But that's just the start.
The Act says that the AG has to keep the Select Committee on Intelligence AND the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence informed of these authorizations AND unmaskings under them.
See 1802 (a) (1) (C), above.
10. If this is what's happened, my bet is that Lynch didn’t bother reporting, or selectively reported to the Committees in a way that excluded non-friendlies.
NOW can you see why Schiff, Feinstein, Warner & Co are frightened?
11. Connect dots :
#1 - Obama authorized electronic surveillance on Team Trump, by-passing normal judicial oversight.
12. #2- to create 'foreign intelligence', Brennan and others organized for UK intelligence, to conduct surveillance on Team Trump (either from UK, or from a UK govt asset within the US).
Thats why the Brits were brought in.
13. #3 - Obama's authorization was certified by AG Lynch and is now held under seal by the DOJ (and FISC).
The DOJ are terrified of making this known.
14. #4 - From Obama’s authorization, ALL the unmasking followed, as well as the FBI fraudulent counter-intel investigation AND perhaps the FISA warrant, too.
That reels in all the Obama THUGS.
15. Now, why is this a CRIME?
Obama's authorization was based on MANUFACTURED EVIDENCE (the Fusion GPS Dossier, secretly funded by the Clinton, DNC & Obama).
16. You can be certain - Obama KNEW it was FAKE, when he made the authorization. As did Lynch, when she certified it. Obama’s entire ‘inner circle’, the ‘Secret Society’, ALL KNEW.
That’s what will come out.
17. They were trying to frame an innocent citizen and destroy a political rival using 'trumped up' evidence (lol). These were genuine police state tactics. This is the sort of thing that happens in Putin’s Russia. Or Mugabe's Zimbabwe.
18. If true, it takes the US into totally uncharted territory.
It also has grave ramifications for any UK politician or official, who was involved in any way.
19. A POTUS himself, hatching a plan to destroy an American using fake evidence?
I really hope it ISN'T true.
But I suspect it may well be.
And that what's coming is far, FAR worse than any of us may have thought.
The end.
20. ADDENDUM : in this interview, @SaraCarterDC points out that the applications to the FISC for the original & subsequent warrants may reveal 'the smoking gun'.
21. Importantly, @SaraCarterDC notes that each new application must include the earlier supporting intel. IOW, an 'evidence' trail of compounded 'intel'.
Now the law says that Obama's authorization & Lynch's certification - if made - had to be issued to the FISC under seal.
22. However, given that the crooks had failed to get a FISA the first time, earlier in 2016, it's reasonable to conclude that Obama's authorization/Lynch's certification (again, if made) was included as part of the October FISA application.
We're getting close, folks.
The end.
23. ADDENDUM #2: OK it seems that this theory is getting a lot of interest.
I'm going to add this, which would be consistent with the UK government discovering illegal use of UK intelligence power as part of the illegal framing of Trump.
24. Note the date of Hannigan's 'resignation' - 23 January, 2017. Just after the inauguration.
You know what that means, if it's related?
Trump has known EVERYTHING since then.
Will keep you updated.
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Cutting and pasting these comments from Rex' Tweets was a LOT of work so please don't give me any cr*p if there are any errors. The end.
Good points.
And John McStain....
That's why I just put a link - I'm lazy. Thanks for your work.
Didn't the dossier come out after the investigation started? I think the investigation was based on other sources, but those sources were just as contrived as the dossier. The dossier was the natural follow-on to the investigation and one crime (of many) is the collusion between the FBI and Fusion GPS.
I think a new thread of this text stream would itself become legendary in explaining what REALLY happened and what RosenRat is obstructing justice on.
Still don’t know what Mueller is actually investigating,Trump collusion,or a criminal investigation,what precipitated either one,when did this start?
What authority was used?
If Trump is the target,can be declassify the information?
To many unanswered questions,have to see how far the IG investigation reveals
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