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Mueller Investigation Is Over / Part two are the trials. Hey Jack, I Was Right. 20 Plus Russians Charged, 19 Of Trumps People Convicted of Felonies.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019 5:24 PM

Barr’s Playbook: He Misled Congress When Omitting Parts of Justice Dep’t Memo in 1989

www.justsecurity.org/63635/barrs-playbook-he-misled-congress-when-omit
ting-parts-of-justice-dept-memo-in-1989
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On Friday the thirteenth October 1989, by happenstance the same day as the “Black Friday” market crash, news leaked of a legal memo authored by William Barr. He was then serving as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). It is highly uncommon for any OLC memo to make headlines. This one did because it was issued in “unusual secrecy” and concluded that the FBI could forcibly abduct people in other countries without the consent of the foreign state. The headline also noted the implication of the legal opinion at that moment in time. It appeared to pave the way for abducting Panama’s leader, Gen. Manuel Noriega.

Members of Congress asked to see the full legal opinion. Barr refused, but said he would provide an account that “summarizes the principal conclusions.” Sound familiar? In March 2019, when Attorney General Barr was handed Robert Mueller’s final report, he wrote that he would “summarize the principal conclusions” of the special counsel’s report for the public.

When Barr withheld the full OLC opinion in 1989 and said to trust his summary of the principal conclusions, Yale law school professor Harold Koh wrote that Barr’s position was “particularly egregious.” Congress also had no appetite for Barr’s stance, and eventually issued a subpoena to successfully wrench the full OLC opinion out of the Department.

What’s different from that struggle and the current struggle over the Mueller report is that we know how the one in 1989 eventually turned out.

When the OLC opinion was finally made public long after Barr left office, it was clear that Barr’s summary had failed to fully disclose the opinion’s principal conclusions. It is better to think of Barr’s summary as a redacted version of the full OLC opinion. That’s because the “summary” took the form of 13 pages of written testimony. The document was replete with quotations from court cases, legal citations, and the language of the OLC opinion itself. Despite its highly detailed analysis, this 13-page version omitted some of the most consequential and incendiary conclusions from the actual opinion. And there was evidently no justifiable reason for having withheld those parts from Congress or the public.

More at www.justsecurity.org/63635/barrs-playbook-he-misled-congress-when-omit
ting-parts-of-justice-dept-memo-in-1989
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019 8:08 PM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
30 posts today?

I should admit that you guys make an admirable effort at keeping track of and decyphering the incessant nonsense that second posts.



There's a theme.

It's not hard to decode.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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THG
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 8:33 PM

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Originally posted by THG:


Deutsche Bank, Trump

tick tock




I wonder if Putin is still pleased with the results of his interfering with our elections as time goes on? As more and more about it is exposed.

Money laundering is a necessary element of his success. In maintaining the support of his cronies. Now it's all being exposed because of the Mueller and other investigations.

Remember, this is just the beginning. When Trump is gone the shit hits the fan as far as unintended consequence that will be suffered by Putin. With a new president the gloves come off.

T


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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 2:00 AM

Showing the Fake Quote:


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Originally posted by rue:
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A Dummies' Guide To What Dems Will Say When Mueller Report Is Released

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-11/dummies-guide-what-dems-will
-say-when-mueller-report-released







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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
A Dummies' Guide To What Reps Will Say Before the Mueller Report Is Released:

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Originally posted by rue:

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A Dummies' Guide To What Dems Will Say When Mueller Report Is Released



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A Dummies' Guide To anti-US rhetoric:

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Originally posted by rue:
https://www.zerohedge.com...




Is anybody else able to observe the manipulation?

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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:09 AM

Oh, GSTRING and SECOND and THUGR like to tell everyone what a poster "really" meant by misquoting it, taking it out of context, re-defining words, or just flat-out making shit up about what someone posted.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 10:28 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, GSTRING and SECOND and THUGR like to tell everyone what a poster "really" meant by misquoting it, taking it out of context, re-defining words, or just flat-out making shit up about what someone posted.

Tell me your interpretation of this:

Ex-president dies after shooting himself to avoid arrest

Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in a hospital in Lima on Wednesday after shooting himself as police arrived at his house to arrest him in connection with a bribery probe, authorities said on Wednesday.

Garcia, who had repeatedly denied wrongdoing, was 69.

www.foxnews.com/world/perus-ex-president-alan-garcia-shoots-himself-be
fore-arrest


I approve 100% of ex-Presidents being charged with crimes. There should not be immunity from prosecution. If the guilty ones kill themselves before being arrested, that is even better.

Anybody remember Trump and "Lock Her Up"? Ex-Presidential candidates should get the same as ex-Presidents.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Is anybody else able to observe the manipulation?



I can see your manipultion easily.

Here's a screencap JSF of my orignal post. My comments are clearly outside the quote boxes. Guess you were just being wrong again...?

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Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:13 AM

Dems are spinning? Zero hedge?

1kiki, you have zero credibility.

Here's some spin.

If the Mueller report exonerates Trump, why write a ‘counter-report’?
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/if-the-mueller-report-exonerat
es-trump-why-write-counter-report


Great question.

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Thursday, April 18, 2019 6:05 AM

In my 25 years with the Justice Department, I appeared before a grand jury upward of 100 times. On almost every occasion, I conducted a detailed interview with the witness before he testified in the grand jury. During the pre–grand jury interview, the FBI, or DEA, or Secret Service case agent took notes that were later memorialized into a report.

I was not alone in the practice of interviewing witnesses before calling them to testify in the grand jury. It is the standard practice of federal prosecutors across the country. The only time a witness was not interviewed in advance was when the witness was hostile and refused to testify without a subpoena, and this was a rarity.

While much of the material from these interviews is the same as what is said before the grand jury, the grand jury secrecy rule only prevents grand jury testimony from being released. It does not act as a bar to the release of interview reports that hold the same information. And so, while grand jury testimony must not be publicly disclosed, the attorney general has the authority to disclose interviews of witnesses who appeared before the grand jury. This material could appear in the version of the Mueller report Barr is set to release on Thursday. But these reports will likely present damning evidence of campaign links to Russia and obstruction by Trump and members of his administration. If Barr’s past actions are any indicator, he will do all he can to prevent their release.

From all signs, much of Mueller’s full report, including the interviews, will be missing. As Congress tries to pry the full report loose from Barr, it must ensure that Barr’s public redactions do not include interviews of witnesses who appeared before the grand jury. Since any such redactions cannot be based on Barr’s claim of grand jury secrecy, their release is fair game.

It’s a sad time when Congress, the press, the courts, and the American people have to worry that the attorney general of the United States may bend the law in a way that works to the detriment of the country, in order to further the personal interests of the man who gave him a job.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/mueller-report-release-wil
liam-barr-justice-department-trump.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, April 18, 2019 6:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by second:
In my 25 years with the Justice Department, I appeared before a grand jury upward of 100 times. On almost every occasion, I conducted a detailed interview with the witness before he testified in the grand jury. During the pre–grand jury interview, the FBI, or DEA, or Secret Service case agent took notes that were later memorialized into a report.

I was not alone in the practice of interviewing witnesses before calling them to testify in the grand jury. It is the standard practice of federal prosecutors across the country. The only time a witness was not interviewed in advance was when the witness was hostile and refused to testify without a subpoena, and this was a rarity.

While much of the material from these interviews is the same as what is said before the grand jury, the grand jury secrecy rule only prevents grand jury testimony from being released. It does not act as a bar to the release of interview reports that hold the same information. And so, while grand jury testimony must not be publicly disclosed, the attorney general has the authority to disclose interviews of witnesses who appeared before the grand jury. This material could appear in the version of the Mueller report Barr is set to release on Thursday. But these reports will likely present damning evidence of campaign links to Russia and obstruction by Trump and members of his administration. If Barr’s past actions are any indicator, he will do all he can to prevent their release.

From all signs, much of Mueller’s full report, including the interviews, will be missing. As Congress tries to pry the full report loose from Barr, it must ensure that Barr’s public redactions do not include interviews of witnesses who appeared before the grand jury. Since any such redactions cannot be based on Barr’s claim of grand jury secrecy, their release is fair game.

It’s a sad time when Congress, the press, the courts, and the American people have to worry that the attorney general of the United States may bend the law in a way that works to the detriment of the country, in order to further the personal interests of the man who gave him a job.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/mueller-report-release-wil
liam-barr-justice-department-trump.html


What was your position when you worked at Justice Department?

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