Breaking: President Trump orders to declassify documents pertaining to Russia investigation

[bodecea]

let's lock them all up!

Sarah Sanders on Twitter

It's a real SHAME that he won't release the Mueller report in full and have the underlying evidence declassified and the witnesses testify before congress along with the investigators, so that us Americans can learn the full truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last presidential election and restore confidence in our public institutions.

He and republicans always manipulates in his/their own favor, and leaves the rest of the actual truth, by the wayside or hidden from us.

Only because he's afraid of what it says.

 

[blastoff]

Word has it the factory is just about finished honing the leading edges of the Trump MAGA Boomerangs razor sharp for the upcoming festivities.

 

[skookerasbil]

Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire

"They were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa... the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa

The differences

If the broad outlines are similar, some key elements distinguish these episodes from each other.

The Politico article highlighted a major one.

"Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin (and) involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services," the article said. "There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine."

So, according to American intelligence agencies, the Kremlin shaped and directed the email hacking of Democrats and subsequent distribution. In contrast, a variety of actors on the Ukrainian side responded to American queries and provided public documents.

Which leads to the other big distinction: The Russians got their materials through cyber-attacks, while the only telling document revealed by a Ukrainian lawmaker was the product of an official investigation.

"There’s a difference between dealing with the embassy and dealing with a covert intelligence operation," Wittes said. "Are you dealing with government records, or are you dealing in stolen dirt?"

To be clear, we do not know if the hacked emails had any ties to contacts the Trump campaign did or didn’t have with Russians. But hacked emails are different from the results of a public investigation.

Taking that difference one step further, there was nothing inherently illegal in the quest for information on Manafort and how that might link Donald Trump to Russia. Wittes noted that from a research perspective, since Manafort’s work took place in Ukraine, "you pretty much have to go to the Ukrainians to get that."

Other details also separate the two narratives.

Ukraine is seen as an ally to the United States, while Russia is at best a competitor and often called an enemy.

Lastly, the stories from Trump associates have changed over time as more press reports emerge. In the case of Donald Trump Jr., he first said he never represented the campaign in any meetings with Russians. Then he said there was a meeting, but it was about adoption laws. Then he said it was about Clinton, but it represented ordinary opposition research.

It’s best to think of both stories as moving targets. The more they are explored, the more we will learn.

Trump and Russia, Clinton and Ukraine: How do they compare?

Discussion of heresay at this point is immaterial....might carry political weight for talking points on fake news channels but most people dont care. People might care who lurk on message boards but that is a very small number of people.

William Barr is about to make this summer a miserable one for some!!

 

[basquebromance]

Trump's executive order shows that Comey, Clapper and Brennan are all in jeopardy. I believe the intelligence community (CIA/NSA) has evidence that was withheld from the FISA courts that would’ve proved there was no collusion.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

And will be given to the the DOJ Barr to be exact ASAP!!

Publicity stunt to keep low information base happy.

Just look at them cheering here.

Haha we will see so far you have been wrong haha

I have? When?

2016 you said trump would lose

And he would have had his buddy vlad not helped him. And she still got 3 million votes more than him.

Oh right, you don’t want an actual fair face off. You want the playing field not to be level.

That’s the only way the corrupt lossr

It's been 42 minutes how much longer is this going to take?

Remember the nite trump won and you cried like a bitch? Lol

how mich are you getting paid per post?

LOL....
End the electoral college,allow 16 year olds to vote not to mention felons.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Time to pay the Barr tab!

Do you think Barr will end up in prison like Nixon's Attorney General?

For what enforcing the laws?

How is ignoring congressional subpoena's enforcing the law? You do understand how the government is supposed to work under the constitution?

Don't you?

You don't?

Though so.

It's enforcing the law because democrats are abusing the law.

All of these subpoenas and search warrants are supposed to be because a crime has been suspected of happening and they're gathering evidence. Not we're gathering evidence to see if we can find a crime. That ain't how it works, pookey.


25 million dollars and 2 years says Trump did nothing wrong. LET IT FUCKING GO. THERE IS NO LEGISLATIVE REASON FOR ALL OF THESE SUBPOENAS.

 

[longknife]

Time to pay the Barr tab!

Do you think Barr will end up in prison like Nixon's Attorney General?

For what enforcing the laws?

How is ignoring congressional subpoena's enforcing the law? You do understand how the government is supposed to work under the constitution?

Don't you?

You don't?

Though so.

It's enforcing the law because democrats are abusing the law.

All of these subpoenas and search warrants are supposed to be because a crime has been suspected of happening and they're gathering evidence. Not we're gathering evidence to see if we can find a crime. That ain't how it works, pookey.


25 million dollars and 2 years says Trump did nothing wrong. LET IT FUCKING GO. THERE IS NO LEGISLATIVE REASON FOR ALL OF THESE SUBPOENAS.

All of these subpoenas and search warrants are supposed to be because a crime has been suspected of happening and they're gathering evidence. Not we're gathering evidence to see if we can find a crime. That ain't how it works, pookey.

That is the most important part of your post.
House Dimocraps ARE NOT performing their legislative or oversight responsibilities!!! They are on fishing expeditions because of their hatred of the president.

 

[skye]

Breaking: President Trump orders to declassify documents pertaining to Russia investigation

 

[skookerasbil]

Munch.....munch.....

 

[skye]

 

[skye]

GOD BLESS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP!

GOD BLESS ALL PATRIOTS!

 

[bodecea]

So...have those documents been unclassified yet? Can someone link them for us?

 

[TemplarKormac]

So...have those documents been unclassified yet? Can someone link them for us?

LOL at this facetious response. It takes time to de/unclassify documents.

Don't be so dense!

 

[bodecea]

Still waiting.....how is that declassification going? Do we have those documents to read yet?

 

[bodecea]

Do we have those declassified documents yet? What the heck is taking so long?

 

[bodecea]

How long does it take? Asking for the nation.

 

[longknife]

AG Barr and his team will go through each document to ensure no laws are being violated before releasing it to the public. He may also be looking to keep from outing sourced vital to national security.

 

[Zorro!]

Link?

President Trump conferred on Attorney General Bill Barr the authority to declassify documents relevant to his inquiry into what we can collectively call “the Russia investigation.” This includes not only “Crossfire Hurricane,” the counterintelligence probe formally opened by the FBI in late July 2016, but all of the relevant investigative threads, including those pursued by other intelligence agencies — such as the CIA’s collaborations with foreign intelligence services, beginning in 2015.

The public is about to learn a lot more about decision-making during the Obama administration. The Democrat-media complex went apoplectic. Gone are the days when the press always wanted more information because it perceived its role, vouchsafed by the Constitution, to be the public’s eye on government.

Barr started his government career working for the CIA. As much as any AG in the history of the country, he grasps the nexus between covert intelligence-gathering and national security. He understands the inter-agency “equities” in our trove of defense secrets — the commitments made to sources and foreign intelligence agencies, the assurances of confidentiality in exchange for cooperation. He will not direct a sweeping declassification order that would disregard these concerns.

So the heated discussion has been the reductive Manichean idiocy that all debate of complex issues becomes: Either our intelligence law-enforcement agencies must be completely immune from inquiry, or all classified information must be exposed such that we can no longer protect secrets or the country.

Things never actually work that way. There are always accommodations that respect the vital interests on both sides of the equation — political accountability and national security.

It is almost always possible to disclose the information needed for some proper public purpose while safeguarding what must be kept secret.

Declassification is not the same thing as disclosure. The fact that an intelligence agency may be directed to declassify information so that investigators are permitted to see it does not necessarily mean the information will be made publicly available. Ultimate investigative conclusions will be made available, but information will be withheld to protect vital intelligence.

To argue that this cannot be done is to say that unelected government officials can do whatever they want, and the people’s representatives cannot question them. That’s dangerous and ridiculous.

The attorney general has been delegated only a sliver of the power that the president already had. There is nothing Barr is now in a position to disclose that Trump was not already empowered to disclose.

Donald Trump cannot divest the chief executive of ultimate power over executive decision-making, and can withdraw the delegation to the AG at any time. The buck still stops with the president.

Attorney General William Barr Declassification Debate | National Review

 

[bodecea]

And...donnie said he was going to declassify those documents....what is taking so long?

 

[Slyhunter]

And...donnie said he was going to declassify those documents....what is taking so long?

He didn't say he was publicizing those documents.
Prosecutors usually don't report the progress of their investigations to the public. And not even to the court until they are ready to process charges.