Government lawyers have asked a judge to reject CNN's requests to make public the memos of former FBI Director James Comey in which he details his meetings with President Donald Trump.
In a late Friday evening filing, the lawyers also have asked for permission to argue in secret why they say the disclosure could compromise the investigation into Russian election-meddling and potential obstruction of justice into that probe.
Several news outlets and government watchdogs, including CNN, have requested the documents be released under the Freedom of Information Act. Comey testified in Congress that the documents detail Trump's request that he pledge personal loyalty and what he interpreted as a request to curtail an investigation into Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Despite Comey's testimony that he wrote the memos specifically to avoid including classified information, the government argued it has now classified portions of the documents.
Releasing the memos, the government said, could "reveal the scope and focus of the investigation and thereby harm the investigation" and any prosecutions.
Yeah I think that last part translates into "We think making these memos public would harm Donald Trump's ability to escape prosecution or impeachment."
Funny how things that were not classified suddenly become classified when it helps to accuse Hillary Clinton of breaking the law, or helps Donald Trump avoid facing the consequences for his actions, don't you think?
What's the point when everything is redacted?
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DeleteCongressional investigators want info on GOP operative who committed suicide after hunting Clinton emails
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/congressional-investigators-want-info-on-gop-operative-who-committed-suicide-after-hunting-clinton-emails/
Longtime GOP activist Peter W. Smith was found dead in an apparent suicide just weeks after divulging his pursuits of Clinton’s emails to a Wall Street Journal reporter. House and Senate investigators reportedly want to know more of Smith’s operation, and his alleged ties to former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former chief strategist Steve Bannon, among other Trump loyalists.
"When a president’s approval rating with his own party is three points lower than Nixon’s right before he resigned, that is a huge problem."
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'The memo — which was provided to Foreign Policy by the CRIMEa-based Russian news organization News Front'
ReplyDelete"focuses on the case for repealing the Magnitsky Act and for doubting Bowder’s claims — a case for which Veselnitskaya is well known for in her lobbying efforts. Adoption—which President Trump and his son first claimed was the subject of the meeting — is only mentioned once and in the context of the ban on Americans adopting Russian children that Russia imposed in retaliation for the sanctions."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/russian-lawyer-memo-trump-tower-meeting
So much for the great generals around Trump: REVEALED: Trump Chief of Staff Kelly ordered ICE to label immigrants ‘criminals’ to justify mass raids
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Methinks Comey intented to harm Hillary's campaign and later regretted it. Ah, well.
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This must delight old Sarah. If we don’t call these networks on this stuff no one else will.
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WHY DOES TRUMP'S FAMILY LET HIM LIE LIKE A RUG WHEN HE'S SPEAKS?
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Trump finally comments on soldier deaths in Niger; falsely knocks Obama over his responses to dead soldiers
By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer
Updated 6:00 PM ET, Mon October 16, 2017
(CNN) Breaking his public silence about four American soldiers killed during an ambush in Niger, President Donald Trump said Monday he'd penned personal letters to their families and planned to phone them later this week.
He also claimed, without merit, that his predecessors hadn't written or called the families of slain American troops during their tenures, though the tradition of presidents reaching out after US servicemen are killed in action is long-established.
Read more at
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/trump-niger-green-berets/index.html
FB."· Copied this from a friend-
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"I made a comment recently where I claimed that Republican administrations had been much more criminally corrupt over the last 50 plus years than the Democrats. I was challenged (dared actually) to prove it. So I did a bit of research and when I say a bit I mean it didn't take long and there is no comparison.
When comparing criminal indictments of those serving in the executive branch of presidential administrations, it's so lopsided as to be ridiculous. Yet all I ever hear about is how supposedly "corrupt" the Democrats are. So why don't we break it down by president and the numbers?
Obama (D) - 8 yrs in office. Zero criminal indictments, zero convictions and zero prison sentences. So the next time somebody describes the Obama administration as "scandal free" they aren't speaking wishfully, they're simply telling the truth.
Bush, George W. (R) - 8 yrs in office. 16 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 9 prison sentences.
Clinton (D) - 8 yrs in office. 2 criminal indictments. One conviction. One prison sentence. That's right nearly 8 yrs of investigations. Tens of millions spent and 30 yrs of claiming them the most corrupt ever and there was exactly one person convicted of a crime.
Bush, George H. W. (R) - 4 yrs in office. One indictment. One conviction. One prison sentence.
Reagan (R) - 8 yrs in office. 26 criminal indictments. 16 convictions. 8 prison sentences.
Carter (D) - 4 yrs in office. One indictment. Zero convictions and zero prison sentences.
Ford (R) - 4 yrs in office. One indictment and one conviction. One prison sentence.
Nixon (R) - 6 yrs in office. 76 criminal indictments. 55 convictions. 15 prison sentences.
Johnson (D) - 5 yrs in office. Zero indictments. Zero convictions. Zero prison sentences.
So, let’s see where that leaves us. In the last 53 years, Democrats have been in the Oval Office for 25 of those years, while Republicans held it for 28. In their 25 yrs in office Democrats had a total of three executive branch officials indicted with one conviction and one prison sentence. That's one whole executive branch official convicted of a crime in two and a half decades of Democrat leadership.
In the 28 yrs that Republicans have held office over the last 53 yrs they have had a total of (a drum roll would be more than appropriate), 120 criminal indictments of executive branch officials. 89 criminal convictions and 34 prison sentences handed down. That's more prison sentences than years in office since 1968 for Republicans. If you want to count articles of impeachment as indictments (they aren't really but we can count them as an action), both sides get one more. However, Clinton wasn't found guilty while Nixon resigned and was pardoned by Ford (and a pardon carries with it a legal admission of guilt on the part of the pardoned). So those only serve to make Republicans look even worse.
With everything going on with Trump and his people right now, it's a safe bet Republicans are gonna be padding their numbers a bit real soon.
So let's just go over the numbers one more time, shall we? 120 indictments for Republicans. 89 convictions, and 34 prison sentences. Those aren't "feelings" or "alternate facts." Those are simply the stats by the numbers. Republicans are, and have been for my entire lifetime, the most criminally corrupt party to hold the office of the presidency.
So those are the actual numbers. Feel free to copy and paste!""
While this is excellent research, it can’t be cited. “Copied from a friend on Facebook” isn’t a citation. Did your friend to the actual research himself or did he also copy and then fail to cite the source?
DeleteThe only way to use these numbers, which I am not questioning, would be to go back and do the research again using his original sources, which I am going to assume is Wikipedia. Not a reliable source but in this case, probably acceptable.
What is really frightening is these criminals are now stocking the courts with lifetime appointments and it is possible they’ll put another of their ilk on the Supreme Court. We will have to live with decades of these right wing, anti-women/LGBTQ/minority, hateful, theocratic bastards on our higher courts. Even if we remove Trump, all of his cabinet and reverse or reinstate everything we can to “right the ship” we still have to live with these assholes on our courts for decades to come.
@ “troll factory”>"were required to watch the “House of Cards” television series to help them craft messages to “set up the Americans against their own government,>"Central theme of this messaging was demonizing Hillary Clinton by playing up the past scandals of her husband’s administration, her wealth and her use of a private email server, according to the interview with the agency worker, identified only as “Maksim,”
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This tOO>
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wikileaks-made-50-000-return-081657045.html
"WikiLeaks is notorious for publishing classified government documents. Assange was fighting a legal battle with Swedish prosecutors who accused him of rape"
President HRC
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"If number 1: If Trump is definitively found to have colluded directly with Russia, he would be forced to resign or be impeached.
If number 2: If Trump is removed, Vice President Mike Pence would become president.
If number 3: If Pence becomes president, he should resign too, given that he benefited from the same help from Mother Russia.
If number 4: If Pence resigns before appointing a vice president, Ryan would become president.
If number 5: If Ryan becomes president, he should do the right thing and choose Clinton for vice president. Then he should resign."
""Without doubt, if Ryan did the right thing, that would be the most extraordinary event in the history of America since the Confederate Army fired on Fort Sumter. But unlike that, this event would build the union, not divide it.""
Interesting^
Wow that is one long stretch of delusion that is most definitely not going to happen. Try living in reality. Getting your hopes up for nonsense does nothing but impede rational thought.
DeleteSounds good. I'm for it as long as trump and pence are both removed for treason. The only solution is trump and his entire cabinet removed and replaced asap. America cannot allow this illegitimate fraudulent bunch of criminals to continue this outrageous crime against America another day. ENOUGH.
DeleteDon't worry 6:04, it will only be around 7 more years.
DeleteThat would so never happen on FIVE different levels, starting with number one.
DeleteDonald John Trump is the worst but even as bad are those that enabled this man, allowed treason, espionage and outright crime against the American people is beyond treason. Americans will not rest until each of those involved are arrested, charged and convicted. There is no excuse nor forgiveness. May a thousand camels fart in their face and the earth wash them to their fate.
ReplyDeleteWhere is snowden? Russia? How about steven segal? Russia? Who else is a usa traitor in Russia?
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