A lawyer for President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, told Congress late Friday that the outgoing administration was fearful of sharing classified intelligence with members of the incoming Trump team, especially Rice’s successor, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
In a letter to lawmakers, Rice’s lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler, said Rice drafted a Jan. 20, 2017, email to herself on the advice of White House counsel to memorialize the outgoing administration’s reluctance.
“President Obama and his national security team were justifiably concerned about potential risks to the Nation’s security from sharing highly classified information about Russia with certain members of the Trump transition team, particularly Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn,”
Ruemmler wrote. Ruemmler’s letter was a response to GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who had inquired about the email that Rice sent herself just hours before the Obama administration left office.
I would say that the Obama Administration was quite justified in their apprehension.
After all keep in mind that Rice was handing her job over to Michael "I'm a foreign agent" Flynn.
And since that hand off of power literally EVERYTHING that Trump and his people have done reinforces the idea that Susan Rice and her boss had very good instincts.
This bullshit inquiry was launched because the Right Wing seems to think that this meeting that Rice had with Obama was all about the Steele Dossier, and that it was being used to justify the Justice Department investigation, but in fact as the lawyer explains the meeting had nothing to do with that dossier.
Damn do I love the smell of desperation in the morning.
SOP be damned, I had the same reaction.
ReplyDeleteNice to know that my angst was well founded.
The nightmare I can't wake up from.
Gryphen, you've got to see this!!!!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=X9xeeQlDbeQ
& T~his tOO!
Deletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/cartoon-trump-greets-disgraced-sheriffs-spineless-pastors-french-nazis-cpac-roasts-romney/
"The Democrat memo response on government surveillance abuses is a total political and legal BUST. Just confirms all of the terrible things that were done. SO ILLEGAL!"<tinydjt
ReplyDeleteYou must be on wrong blog or you are a patient at a mental hospital.
DeleteGood luck with your electric shock treatment.
What’s up with the quotation marks. And the sign off tiny digits lead me to believe it’s a snark. Just needs the /s at the end.
DeleteTHAT was a Real tweet from the $hitgibbon.
DeleteAs yes, a LAWYER has spoken for Susan Rice........... Tic Tic Tic Tic
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Delete"Rice was born in Washington, D.C., to Emmett J. Rice (1919–2011), Cornell University economics professor and the second black governor of the Federal Reserve System and education policy scholar Lois Fitt Dickson, who helped design the federal Pell Grant subsidy system and who joined the Brookings Institution in 1992
Rice was an athlete, student council president, and valedictorian at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., a private girls' day school. She attended Stanford University, where she received a Truman Scholarship and graduated with a BA in history in 1986. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, Rice attended New College, Oxford, where she earned an MPhil in 1988 and a DPhil in 1990. The Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, honored her dissertation entitled Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979–1980: Implication for International Peacekeeping as the UK's most distinguished in international relations.
Rice said that her parents taught her to
"never use race as an excuse or advantage",
and as a young girl she
"dreamed of becoming the first U.S. senator from the District of Columbia". "
So 9:12?
DeleteSusan Rice has been circling the hot seat for quite a while.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/democrats-release-heavily-redacted-yet-effective-rebuttal-to-nunes-memo.html
ReplyDelete"EVERY key claim of the Nunes Memo as it pertains to this FISA application is rebutted by the Democratic release"