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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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Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:01 PM

lol. Right?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:35 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol. Right?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

You didn't know Justice Department was neck deep in sheep herders, or whatever it is that second does? 25 years worth of whatever that was. Of course, maybe it is shoveling manure, which I would believe about Justice.

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Thursday, April 18, 2019 1:36 PM

You walked into that one Second. You knew that was coming.

These guys, the real brains of the Outfit, consider you part of the "Deep State" no matter what you did at DOJ. Although now it should be known as
DOT (really, CSOT). The "Deep"


SGG


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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol. Right?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

You didn't know Justice Department was neck deep in sheep herders, or whatever it is that second does? 25 years worth of whatever that was. Of course, maybe it is shoveling manure, which I would believe about Justice.

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Thursday, April 18, 2019 1:41 PM

The shame of it all is that there are "real" lifers in the department who abide by the Rule of Law. Of course, you're only as good as your Head Man (ha, head!).

While Mueller was in there, he kept his head down and did yeoman's work. But integrity is only as good as the person who honors it. This marine served with
Integrity. Something few folks here know little about.


SGG


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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


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 2:20 PM

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
You walked into that one Second. You knew that was coming.

These guys, the real brains of the Outfit, consider you part of the "Deep State" no matter what you did at DOJ. Although now it should be known as
DOT (really, CSOT). The "Deep"


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol. Right?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

You didn't know Justice Department was neck deep in sheep herders, or whatever it is that second does? 25 years worth of whatever that was. Of course, maybe it is shoveling manure, which I would believe about Justice.


Yet another Brainiac.

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Thursday, April 18, 2019 2:25 PM

Oh, there are a lot of questions this little fiasco brings about. I dare say that our little Mr. Barr will have quite a few to answer.

Why?

...a press conference BEFORE the release of the report?
...no Mueller or any of his team will be at the presser?
...did the president announce the press conference well ahead of you?
...not let the Mueller Report speak for itself?

Oh and what ever happened to Barr providing Congress a copy of the Mueller Report before further commenting on it's contents?



At 3:20 he states that - "...to release the report within a week, and I'm not going to say anything more about it, until the report is out and everyone has had a chance to look at it."

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PBS NewsHour
Published on Apr 9, 2019
In a House subcommittee hearing, Attorney General William Barr declined to answer a question from Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., over whether the White House had seen special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report before or after he released his summary of Mueller's findings.

"I said what I'm going say about the report today," he said. "I've already laid out the process that is going forward to release these reports hopefully within a week, and I'm not going to say anything more about it until the report is out and everyone has a chance to look at it."

The hearing is largely about the Justice Department's budget request, but that hasn't prevented lawmakers from asking questions about the Mueller report's public release, possible redactions and President Donald Trump's comments on its findings.

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SGG It's sad really!


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Originally posted by reaverfan:
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 2:29 PM

Ha, ha funny coming from you.

Oh and Brainiac is mine. Go find your own insult....

SFB...........Bwah ha, ha, ha


SGG

Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
You walked into that one Second. You knew that was coming.

These guys, the real brains of the Outfit, consider you part of the "Deep State" no matter what you did at DOJ. Although now it should be known as
DOT (really, CSOT). The "Deep"


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol. Right?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

You didn't know Justice Department was neck deep in sheep herders, or whatever it is that second does? 25 years worth of whatever that was. Of course, maybe it is shoveling manure, which I would believe about Justice.


Yet another Brainiac.

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Thursday, April 18, 2019 2:35 PM

It's obvious that Barr is a shill for the Repugnant Party. And here he is again, only this time he's sucking Trump's puny pee pee.

Keep sucking there Bill, you'll find it soon!


SGG


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Originally posted by second:
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
/

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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Thursday, April 18, 2019 5:32 PM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol. Right?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

You didn't know Justice Department was neck deep in sheep herders, or whatever it is that second does? 25 years worth of whatever that was. Of course, maybe it is shoveling manure, which I would believe about Justice.



He bottled cow farts for the DOJ after Nam.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Thursday, April 18, 2019 5:50 PM

As a reminder that an Attorney General can also be a criminal: During Watergate, two attorneys general, John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst, were convicted of crimes arising out of their relationship with Richard Nixon. Those three dragged our federal system of justice and its reputation for professionalism into the mud.

Neither Congress nor the public can trust that Attorney General William Barr has been objective and fair in what he has decided to make public of the report, nor can they believe that he can handle any further issues surrounding wrongdoing by President Trump with integrity.

After he releases his redacted version of the report from special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday, he should resign.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/439386-why-william-barr-should-r
esign


The alternative is to wait a few years for proof that Barr is a crook. He proved it 30 years ago, but Trump gave Barr another chance to be crooked: 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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