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The Russia Investigation: Trump Pardons Flynn (13 Viewers)

Maurile Tremblay said:
I haven't read anything but that quoted paragraph, but that paragraph doesn't say that Congress can't enforce its subpoenas. It says that Congress can't ask the judicial branch to enforce its subpoenas.

Congress should have its own inherent enforcement power.
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It's basically recapping Rao who said the Courts cannot intervene in Congressional-Executive disputes. Which 1. invites political discord by forcing Congress to take enforcement into its own hands (even though it literally created the DOJ to do just that) and 2. really puts a damper on Marbury, because what then can the courts intervene in.

 
Dinsy Ejotuz said:
Also to enforce all the laws that have been broken already.  Otherwise, what's the point?
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I have mixed emotions about this.

I am not sure how we move forward, if we are constantly looking back.

Part of that is just conflict avoidance, and part of that is recognizing that when two sides have backed each other into a corner, its sometimes best to start afresh.

I would happily trade a lack of accountability now, for simply being able to get past this era.  :shrug:

 
I don't know anything about Judge Griffith, but I'm impressed with his (or her?) writing, both in the concurrence in Flynn and in the majority opinion in McGahn.

 
One other note - the USSC has already overwritten the McGahn decision in Mazars - obviously the SC has already ruled, in a decision written the Chief Justice, that the courts can oversee a subpoena demand on the president (for private information no less, which should be more protectable than official acts) and that the Congress has that authority. 

 
SaintsInDome2006 said:
One other note - the USSC has already overwritten the McGahn decision in Mazars - obviously the SC has already ruled, in a decision written the Chief Justice, that the courts can oversee a subpoena demand on the president (for private information no less, which should be more protectable than official acts) and that the Congress has that authority. 
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Yeah, but can they enforce their authority under the law?  Or do they need some Congressional constables to round up the scalawags that dodge Congressional subpoenas?

 
The Z Machine said:
Yeah, but can they enforce their authority under the law?  Or do they need some Congressional constables to round up the scalawags that dodge Congressional subpoenas?
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It's really skrewed up, don't get me wrong. IIRC Congress created DOJ back in the 1800s, yet now they can't even get DOJ to share documents with them much less enforce subpoenas. It's not supposed to work this way. however, we know right now that as a practical matter DOJ isn't doing what Congress tells it to do.

Technically though, this would be about DOJ (or say Treasury with the taxes) doing what the courts tell it to do. Even under this forsaken presidency DOJ has still been technically following court orders. I have no doubt this President and his major domo AG might try to change that but as for now if the court ultimately tells McGahn to show up a US Marshall can be dispatched from a local district where he is to make him show up. I hope. 

- eta - Even so IIRC McGahn has said he will show up voluntarily if a court tells him he must. And hopefully he sticks to that.

 
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It's pretty obvious that Trump is engaging in the same tactics he used as a private citizen to not comply with court orders.  Delay, counter sue, delay, give only incrementally until forced, etc. However, now he doesn't need to pay for those legal services, he gets them for free from the DoJ and WH office of legal counsel. 

 
I have just checked out on the news recently but saw this posted. Nothing to see here. Just another set of electronic devices wiped. I'm sure they just had wedding plans and yoga appointments on them.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/mueller-investigators-accidentally-wiped-over-dozen-phones-turning-over-igs-office

This whole thing was a sham from the start and should be exposed, but not even the cover up is covered by normal media. The only people doing actual reporting on the Russia hoax now carry labels like alt-right media. Shameful #### all because we have a buffoon in office some want removed by any and all means possible.

 
jplvr said:
I have just checked out on the news recently but saw this posted. Nothing to see here. Just another set of electronic devices wiped. I'm sure they just had wedding plans and yoga appointments on them.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/mueller-investigators-accidentally-wiped-over-dozen-phones-turning-over-igs-office

This whole thing was a sham from the start and should be exposed, but not even the cover up is covered by normal media. The only people doing actual reporting on the Russia hoax now carry labels like alt-right media. Shameful #### all because we have a buffoon in office some want removed by any and all means possible.
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Except it wasn't a sham from the start.  Cover up?  And the reason the only places calling it a hoax are called alt-right media...is because its what they are.  Usually not credible and usually making accusations they can't actually back up with facts.

What information do you think you are getting from phones as far as the investigations that you aren't getting from computers and the documents of their actual investigation?

 
jplvr said:
I have just checked out on the news recently but saw this posted. Nothing to see here. Just another set of electronic devices wiped. I'm sure they just had wedding plans and yoga appointments on them.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/mueller-investigators-accidentally-wiped-over-dozen-phones-turning-over-igs-office

This whole thing was a sham from the start and should be exposed, but not even the cover up is covered by normal media. The only people doing actual reporting on the Russia hoax now carry labels like alt-right media. Shameful #### all because we have a buffoon in office some want removed by any and all means possible.
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Fwiw, this is an old claim, maybe 2 years old, and it's false. I forget who runs Just The News, one of the right wing mavens, and while Judicial Watch is good at Foia it's usually misrepresenting what's in the documents it gets. What I recall from this is that the DOJ  (not OSC) wiped phones when employees left as a standard procedure which the documents actually show. Doubt it's worth revisiting an old claim from 2017 with links.

 
Intelligencer @intelligencer

Rudy Giuliani has been working with Andriy Derkach, an active Russian agent, to smear Joe Biden. Giuliani’s reason for not suspecting Derkach as a Russian agent is that he didn’t tell him he was a Russian agent.

@jonathanchait writes

Oh, Rudy....

 
Sinn Fein said:
Intelligencer @intelligencer

Rudy Giuliani has been working with Andriy Derkach, an active Russian agent, to smear Joe Biden. Giuliani’s reason for not suspecting Derkach as a Russian agent is that he didn’t tell him he was a Russian agent.

@jonathanchait writes

Oh, Rudy....
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File this under "I didn't specifically say quid pro quo".

 
SaintsInDome2006 said:
Fwiw, this is an old claim, maybe 2 years old, and it's false. I forget who runs Just The News, one of the right wing mavens, and while Judicial Watch is good at Foia it's usually misrepresenting what's in the documents it gets. What I recall from this is that the DOJ  (not OSC) wiped phones when employees left as a standard procedure which the documents actually show. Doubt it's worth revisiting an old claim from 2017 with links.
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I'm shocked, truly shocked.....

 
sho nuff said:
Which part was dishonest...did you read the article...the associated tweet that said trying and failing?

Do you believe Russian Troll farms are not, in fact, doing so?  Why the constant defense of all things Russia?
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I couldn’t read the article- it’s behind a paywall.  This Daily Beast writer just wanted to slime ‘left’ news orgs as somehow being useful to official bad guys and adjacent to evildoers.  

Look at yourself.  I am disagreeing with the suggestion that this “infiltration and exploitation”- apparently a singular email to the editor of a magazine that wasn’t even responded to- was worthy of a fearmongering headline that tars “left-wing publications” as vulnerable to “Russian troll farms.”  And you say it’s a “constant defense of all things Russia.”  

Schachtman pretends that junk emails to website editors are somehow a sinister plot to infiltrate progressive magazines.  That’s dishonest.  What a bunch of baloney.  

 
ren hoek said:
I couldn’t read the article- it’s behind a paywall.  This Daily Beast writer just wanted to slime ‘left’ news orgs as somehow being useful to official bad guys and adjacent to evildoers.  

Look at yourself.  I am disagreeing with the suggestion that this “infiltration and exploitation”- apparently a singular email to the editor of a magazine that wasn’t even responded to- was worthy of a fearmongering headline that tars “left-wing publications” as vulnerable to “Russian troll farms.”  And you say it’s a “constant defense of all things Russia.”  

Schachtman pretends that junk emails to website editors are somehow a sinister plot to infiltrate progressive magazines.  That’s dishonest.  What a bunch of baloney.  
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Except you admit you didn't read the article...so you are basing the call of dishonesty on a tweet where one place it was only one email.  I dont get that...just seems to be the same thing the complaint is about the reporting.

Amd the constant defense goes beyond this one issue

 
sho nuff said:
Except you admit you didn't read the article
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Yes- because I don't want to give The Daily Beast money sho nuff.  Is that ok?  Am I supposed to give websites money to check whether their reports are bogus or not?  They should not hide leaked documents behind a paywall.  It's an extraordinary allegation that demands serious evidence and something less crass than a Russian flag with a troll face on it.  

sho nuff said:
...so you are basing the call of dishonesty on a tweet where one place it was only one email.
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Yes- because it was written by the editor of the accused magazine.  Who has been published in several mainstream papers and The Nation, all of which are more credible than DB (which isn't saying much). 

 
I just spent way too much time digging through juniorNB's posts.  Not to call him out specifically either, there were tons of people making posts to this effect.  But I kind of miss the extremely cringe Mueller posts, when he was a 12D puppet master, a law enforcement mastermind 100 steps ahead of everyone.  

JuniorNB said:
Yeah I would find it very hard to believe that Don Jr is not getting indicted. He was the ringleader of the very Russian coordination that everyone else is going to jail for. Mueller has to play it smart though. If he'd of indicted him six months ago, Trump would have probably shut the whole thing down. He knows he's dealing with a man-child plus a cowardly Senate that will do anything he says. Just remember that Mueller is the smartest person in the room.
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JuniorNB said:
Agree.  Mueller was waiting to get that in writing from Trump. He knew all of this for weeks/months. But until he got Trump to lie about it, he kept it under wraps. This is playing out beautifully. Mueller is a puppet master.
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JuniorNB said:
The most hilarious part of all this is that some people are still claiming that Mueller doesn't have one piece of proof that Trump colluded. lol  4 hours ago, no one knew that he convinced Manafort to cooperate. Every time someone is indicted, it's a shock to everyone. There are never clues or leaks. Yet they think that Mueller would accidently tell someone about collusion evidence at his monthly book group meeting. 
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JuniorNB said:
Be patient little one.  Mr Mueller is the consummate professional. Methodically picking them off one by one. The walls are closing in. Everyone Trump thought would be loyal are realizing he doesn't give a rat's ### about them and he'd send every single one of them to jail to save his own ###. Stone is next. This is a marathon, not a sprint. It could be another year or more. The best part is how Mueller doesn't leak a single thing. While Trump frantically tweets and tweets and tweets. Totally in the dark about what he knows. The drawn out torture to Trump and his paranoia is the best part.   :lmao:
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JuniorNB said:
There is a 100% chance that the only reason Mueller hasn't indicted Don Jr yet is because he wants to do more behind the scenes investigating before going scorched Earth. He knows the reaction once he starts busting Trump's actual family.  He's obviously waiting till he's practically finished. 
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JuniorNB said:
While it may be true that you don't impeach purely for political reasons, in this desperate time, you don't do anything that improves this lying criminal's chance of getting reelected.

That being said, I am not dead-set against impeachment. I may change my mind after Mueller testifies in front of congress. Not that it would change the opinion of the 35% hardcore Trump fans who would stick by him regardless of what he did. But Mueller is a widely respected figure amongst the huge percentage of the country who actually think freely and aren't a slave to a particular party. His testimony could be damaging enough that no amount of  Trump spin can mend the wounds. Once I think a failed removal won't help Trump, then I'll be aboard the impeachment train.
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JuniorNB said:
Yes, it's being revealed that Mueller has proof of Trump's coordination of Russian collusion and illegal use of campaign funds, but did you know a few black guys kneel during the national anthem??!?
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JuniorNB said:
Mueller has already locked up Time Person of the Year for 2018. 
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JuniorNB said:
May be too late, but Mueller is Time Magazine Person of the Year by a longshot. Decade, maybe
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JuniorNB said:
This country desperately needs Mueller right now. He may be the only person in the world who can save us at this point.
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The knives come out for Robert Mueller

The disgruntled ‘Resistance’ turns on its former hero

Cockburn

September 22, 2020

3:57 AM

For two years, Robert Mueller was the closest thing to a living saint Donald Trump’s political opponents could imagine. The FBI veteran was recast as St Michael, descending into the maw of Hell to strike down the Cinnamon Satan himself. 

A dedicated page on Reddit, titled only ‘The Mueller’, amassed more than 170,000 subscribers. The women of SNL serenaded Mueller during the holidays. Avid fans bought Robert Mueller buttons, action figures, ugly Christmas sweaters, and mugs (‘After a long day of treason, It’s Mueller Time!’). The most pious lit Mueller-themed prayer candles.

By the final days of the investigation, the Associated Press even profiled elderly, dying Trump haters whose deepest wish was to live just long enough to see Mueller’s fateful report. Sadly, the AP never followed up. Cockburn would like to know how many made it that far — only to die of sheer disappointment.

St Mueller the Archangel did not cast the President into Hell, to put it mildly.

And so now, a year later, he is suffering the fate of so many others who are no longer useful to the American left. Rather than merely be forgotten, he has joined the cast of villains.

Playing the role of Brutus in this tragedy is Andrew Weissmann, once Mueller’s senior deputy, now the first member of his team to cash in with a book deal. Weissmann once put 85,000 people out of work by destroying the accounting giant Arthur Andersen with a bogus criminal probe that was later overturned unanimously by the Supreme Court. He is, you might say, an aggressive prosecutor. In Where Law Ends, he sticks pins into his old boss, blaming his timidity for the failure of the investigation to achieve more spectacular results. According to Weissman, Mueller ‘let the American people down’ by not issuing enough subpoenas, not probing Trump’s financial records and not openly accusing the President of obstruction of justice. 

Weissman’s criticisms have unleashed a torrent of abuse against the #Resistance’s erstwhile champion.  The same Twitter hoi polloi who may once have attended Muller testimony viewing parties now dubbed Mueller a ‘coward’, a ‘failure’ and even a ‘traitor’. Bluechecks were more measured in their language, but kept the clear venom.

But it is not Mueller’s conduct in 2018 that discredits the Mueller investigation, but Weissman’s conduct right now and the press’s coverage of it.

The Atlantic’s original headline on Monday says it all: ‘The Inside Story of Why Mueller Failed.’ It has been many years since Cockburn studied rhetoric, but he believes this is what Aristotle called ‘assuming the conclusion’. A special investigation looking for a vast conspiracy to collude with a foreign power to rig an election is not a ‘failure’ if it does not find that conspiracy. It is a success, so long as it manages to find the truth. 

But the truth was not what the President’s enemies wanted. That is why Weissmann told the Atlantic that the report was a ‘historic missed opportunity’. The opportunity in question wasn’t learning the truth about Trump. It was the chance to nullify the 2016 election. But Mueller’s conclusions were unambiguous: he found no evidence the President colluded with Russia and no evidence he tried to. Without collusion, the ‘obstruction’ charges Weissman wanted become a farce; Trump would have been accused of obstruction for angrily calling a baseless, politically-motivated investigation baseless and politically motivated.

Nevertheless, Weissman’s book makes it clear that exact situation is nearly what happened. And that, perhaps, is the real disturbing revelation from Weissmann’s book. A groundless investigation, driven by a political temper tantrum, didn’t just sidetrack US politics for two years. It nearly succeeded in bringing down a presidency. And while Weissmann may have ‘accidentally’ erased his phone twice during the course of the investigation, he doubtless has notes to ensure the next political inquisition does not fail.  

 
OAN raising the Skolkovo project from a few years ago. I don’t know much about it. 
 

@ren hoek @SaintsInDome2006 what are the Biden implications here?  It looks like the Clinton foundation funneled some money into it and it has military espionage implications. Readers Digest version?

 
-jb- said:
Agree that the source is terrible. I am just curious as to what happened. Here’s a link the The Hill that discusses it. 

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/429292-the-case-for-russia-collusion-against-the-democrats
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Id put that link barely above OAN...not the Hill...but Solomon himself.

I blieve the Hill was investigating the articles he had posted on their site.

His opinions typically have not aged well when it comes to Russia and Ukraine (and that link even has him going to Uranium One).

 
This got me thinking of another Hail Mary that actually would probably swing real votes.

”If re-elected I will declassify all files on UFOs/aliens, Kennedy assassination, and all supernatural happenings. No redactions!”

:tinfoilhat:

I mean I still wouldn’t vote for him....but I’d pause for a moment.

 
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quick-hands said:
Trump just declassified  everything  in connection  to Russian
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This is inaccurate.

He didn't declassify anything; he merely "authorized" things to be declassified. (link)

(And, to be more accurate, we don't know if he really authorized all of the declassification; all we know at this point is that he tweeted about authorizing it.)

Also, he's lying when he says there will be "No redactions". So far, several redactions have remained.

 
[scooter] said:
This is inaccurate.

He didn't declassify anything; he merely "authorized" things to be declassified. (link)

(And, to be more accurate, we don't know if he really authorized all of the declassification; all we know at this point is that he tweeted about authorizing it.)

Also, he's lying when he says there will be "No redactions". So far, several redactions have remained.
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Well, looks like we'll find out. On the record. Publicly.  :popcorn:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/trump-russia-declassification-lawsuit/index.html

"It's not the White House that declassifies information. It's the President," Judge Reggie Walton of the DC District Court in Washington said in a hearing Friday. 

"Don't I need to know what the President's position is and not what White House counsel's statement is?" Walton added.

Walton said in court Friday he needed to know what the President actually wanted -- and if Trump would "retract" his public statements ordering the documents' release.

The judge asked for the White House counsel's office to confer directly with Trump and report back to court by next week, when he'll hold another court hearing Wednesday. The judge also set a deadline of Tuesday at noon for DOJ to file a declaration "by the President or an individual who has conferred directly with the President" on what his declassification statements meant.

"The American public has a right to rely on what a President says his intent is," Walton said.
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[scooter] said:
quick-hands said:
Trump just declassified  everything  in connection  to Russian
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This is inaccurate.

He didn't declassify anything; he merely "authorized" things to be declassified. (link)

(And, to be more accurate, we don't know if he really authorized all of the declassification; all we know at this point is that he tweeted about authorizing it.)

Also, he's lying when he says there will be "No redactions". So far, several redactions have remained.
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UPDATE: Trump administration tells judge that Trump was NOT declassifying everything in connection to Russia, but was merely delegating authority to AG Barr

 
Oh man, I thought Trump was gonna put it all out there to prove the deep state was corrupt, out to get him, and the MSM was in their pocket to create the "Russia Hoax".  You mean that's not true?

 
Gr00vus said:
199 criminal charges, 37 indictments or guilty pleas, and 5 prison sentences

Corroboration of allegations in the Steele dossier. He didn't bat 1.000, but he did hit on a lot of these.
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This isn't "nothing" a "hoax" or even an invesigation  started by democrats.  Those are all lies.

Why was the investigation launched? The FBI opened “Crossfire Hurricane” on July 31, 2016, after learning a Trump campaign aide may have had advance knowledge that Russian intelligence operatives had stolen Democratic emails.

A diplomat revealed that the aide, George Papadopoulos, had boasted to him that he had heard Russia had damaging information on Democrat Hillary Clinton that it could release to harm her campaign.

That May 2016 conversation triggered alarms within the FBI since the Russian hacking operation, which resulted in the public disclosure of thousands of hacked emails, was not yet public knowledge.
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Here's more

In 2016, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman shared polling data with an associate suspected of ties to Russian intelligence. Another Trump associate sought inside information about Democratic emails stolen by Kremlin operatives. The candidate himself invited Russia to hunt for his opponent’s emails, then tried to stifle investigators once he entered the White House.
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