Here we go?

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All it takes is one indictment on one of the characters involved in the origin of the Russian investigation and this thing does a 180.

Democrats will be running from it.

Yes. And, the UK and Australia can't plead with Trump to not release the info this time. They had certain characters involved here soooooooooooo I guess there will be a little egg on those persons' faces now. It's getting good.

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This is wonderful. The left should be thrilled! They want all the background stuff...well they're gonna get it in spades now! LOL
Allllllllllllllllll of this info will be declassified and EVERYBODY will get to see
what went on that instigated and perpetuated the Mullet investigation!!!!! YAAAAAAAYYYYY
Transparency, yes! Cover-up, no!

MAGA! Go Trump

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Nancy's gonna need an intervention!

[Tkaffen]

Seems to be hinting at declassification.

We’ll see.

It’s about time.

[Abatis]

This move is timed so the Horowitz Report can be released with minimal redactions. Barr knows what he wants to do with the information in the IG's report, that why Durham was brought in back in March . . . The grand juries are already seated.

Huber has been working for over a year on the FISA Court abuses, Durham is going to prosecute the 702(16)(17) NSA abuses which began in November of 2015 (arrest warrants for Susan Rice and Samantha Powers coming up) which leads right to Fusion GPS which was the private contractor that had full access to the NSA database, doing the illegal "To/From" and "About" queries. An internal audit discovered 85% of the searches were illegal so NSA Director Rogers shut down private contractor access on April 18, 2016. The next day Glen Simpson's wife was at the White House and by the end of April Fusion GPS was on the payroll of HRC and her campaign was contracted with Steele.

Oh, this is going to get good!

[Tkaffen]

Problem being, for conspiracy retards like you, there is no credible evidence that indicates anyone will be (or should be) indicted for the origin of the investigation.

The predicate is already known; has been for some time. It's even cited in the Mueller report.

Dunce.

There is no evidence, wow I didn’t know you were part of the investigation team.
Aren’t you the same asshole that alleged there was evidence against Kavanaugh.

What a fuckin hypocrite, conspiracy? We have been hearing about treason and collusion for the last two years and continuing.

I’m not going to be a moron like you. I will wait for the investigation to be concluded before forming my opinion. You on the other hand will continue to be a puppet of your puppet masters

[Cinnabar]

Trump: “I will be declassifying EVERYTHING”

He didn’t set a firm timetable on Fox News for declassifying the materials related to the FISA warrants, saying he would do it ‘soon, I mean whenever they need it.’

https://theblacksphere.net/2019/05/t...ng-everything/

Will he be revealing this at the same time he divulges his top secret affordable healthcare plan?

April 1, 2019

Trump says no Republican health-care plan until after 2020 elections

Donald Trump indicated Monday night that a new Republican health-care plan that he has boasted about in recent days won’t be voted on until after the 2020 elections.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tr...ons-2019-04-01

Trump is a know nothing but he sure knows how absolutely gullible, stupid and malleable his fans are.

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WOW! The 300 unmaskings by Powers will be in there, too. Woo Hoo!!!!
And, Brennan who pushed and leaked the phony dossier. (with gang of 8 and Reid leaking it back to Obama)
Violations of the Brady rule. Weissman hiding exculpatory evidence.
Lots and lots of transparency, LOL!

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Will he be revealing this at the same time he divulges his top secret affordable healthcare plan?



Trump is a know nothing but he sure knows how absolutely gullible, stupid and malleable his fans are.

Uhhhh...it's on every left and right news channel.......it's getting released.

[Cinnabar]

Problem being, for conspiracy retards like you, there is no credible evidence that indicates anyone will be (or should be) indicted for the origin of the investigation.

The predicate is already known; has been for some time. It's even cited in the Mueller report.

Dunce.

These are the folks that believed Trump had private investigators in Hawaii that "could not believe what they were finding" concerning Obama's birth certificate. We are still waiting for that huge reveal...lmfao hahahahahahahahaha

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Better yet. Now we'll see when Bama got the leaked phony dossier by way of Reid.
Good times!

[dukkha]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/u...elligence.html

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...assify-IC-docs
President Trump took extraordinary steps on Thursday to give Attorney General William P. Barr sweeping new authorities to conduct a review into how the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia were investigated, significantly escalating the administration’s efforts to place those who investigated the campaign under scrutiny.

In a directive, Mr. Trump ordered the C.I.A. and the country’s 15 other intelligence agencies to cooperate with the review and granted Mr. Barr the authority to unilaterally declassify their documents. The move — which occurred just hours after the president again declared that those who led the investigation committed treason — gave Mr. Barr immense leverage over the intelligence community and enormous power over what the public learns about the roots of the Russia investigation.

The order is a change for Mr. Trump, who last year dropped a plan to release documents related to the Russia investigation amid concerns from Justice Department officials who said making them public could damage national security. At the time, the president was being encouraged by a group of Republican Congress members to declassify the information.

Mr. Barr, who has used the word “spying” to describe how the Trump campaign was investigated, has been deeply involved in the department’s review of how intelligence was collected on the campaign. Mr. Barr has told Congress that he personally authorized the review. While he has asked John H. Durham, the United States attorney in Connecticut, to spearhead it, a Justice Department official said that Mr. Barr has personally met with the heads of the intelligence agencies to discuss the review and that the project was a top priority after the release last month of the special counsel’s report.

One official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified matters, said previously that Mr. Barr wanted to know more about what foreign assets the C.I.A. had in Russia in 2016 and what those informants were telling the agency about how President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia sought to meddle in the 2016 election.

The C.I.A. on Thursday referred questions to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. A spokeswoman for the office did not respond to messages seeking comment.

The directive is likely to irk the intelligence community, which has long prized its ability to determine what information about its operations can be released to the public.
During the investigations of the C.I.A.’s enhanced interrogation programs, the agency stymied investigators by refusing to declassify documents.

There could be other implications for the intelligence agencies. The C.I.A. considers confidential sources its most highly classified and most protected assets, and any investigation that could possibly force it to reveal those identities is likely to create a standoff. Last year, the agency lost trust in the Justice Department’s ability to keep the names of informants and sources secret after the identity of the F.B.I.’s source in the Trump campaign, Stefan Halper, was revealed as part of congressional investigations, according to former intelligence officials.

Late Thursday, Jeremy Bash, a chief of staff at the C.I.A. under President Barack Obama, said that the president’s move was “a very significant delegation of power to an attorney general who has shown he’s willing to do Donald Trump’s political bidding.”

“It’s dangerous,” he continued, “because the power to declassify is also the power to selectively declassify, and selective declassification is one of the ways the Trump White House can spin a narrative about the origins of the Russia investigation to their point of view.”

He added that confidential sources around the globe might be fearful of talking now.

“It sends a signal that their identity may be exposed for purely political purposes,” Mr. Bash said. “If I were in charge of intelligence operations, I would be worried about sources clamming up tonight.”

Mr. Barr has said that he believes Mr. Trump’s campaign was “spied” on, appearing to bolster unfounded accusations that Mr. Trump has made about the Obama administration illegally wiretapping his associates.

The dual decisions on Thursday were announced in a presidential memorandum, and explained in a statement by the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

The directive will “help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions,” the statement said.

Despite the significant step, there are indications there may be little criminality to uncover. Mr. Durham is conducting only a limited review, not a criminal investigation, which suggests Mr. Barr may not have identified enough wrongdoing to open such an inquiry.

Mr. Durham is not the only federal prosecutor examining this issue. For over a year, John W. Huber, the United States attorney in Utah, has also been examining aspects of the Russia investigation. When Mr. Barr’s predecessor, Matthew G. Whitaker, was the acting attorney general, and Mr. Trump repeatedly pressed for him to appoint a second special counsel, Mr. Whitaker told people he considered Mr. Huber to essentially be serving in that role.

A Justice Department official confirmed that Mr. Barr asked the president to issue the memo, which broadens his authority in an inquiry in which he is personally interested. The order also extends to several other parts of the federal government, including the Departments of Defense, Energy and Homeland Security.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/u...elligence.html

[dukkha]

Despite the significant step, there are indications there may be little criminality to uncover. Mr. Durham is conducting only a limited review, not a criminal investigation, which suggests Mr. Barr may not have identified enough wrongdoing to open such an inquiry.

Mr. Durham is not the only federal prosecutor examining this issue. For over a year, John W. Huber, the United States attorney in Utah, has also been examining aspects of the Russia investigation. When Mr. Barr’s predecessor, Matthew G. Whitaker, was the acting attorney general, and Mr. Trump repeatedly pressed for him to appoint a second special counsel, Mr. Whitaker told people he considered Mr. Huber to essentially be serving in that role.

any comment?

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any comment?

It's the NYT.
Nothing to see here...move along. The big story is that Pelosi is praying.
"indications", "limited", "may not".
Though I'm relatively sure that sources and methods would be protected.

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Attorney General Barr puts former intel bosses on notice
By Kevin R. Brock, opinion contributor — 05/22/19 09:00 AM EDT

Things seem to be moving quickly now. It has been a remarkable few weeks in American history. Momentum is building toward uncovering the distasteful possibility that the targeting of a U.S. presidential campaign was actually a political operation, fostered at the highest levels of government, masquerading as an FBI counterintelligence investigation.

Attorney General William Barr has signaled that his interest in examining the origins of the investigation into the Trump campaign extends beyond whether the FBI operated “by the book,” as former FBI Director James Comey asserts. Barr also wants to understand the role that the larger intelligence community, or IC, may have played in all of this.

Barr has thrown punches that have left an interesting mix of characters with a standing eight count. Certain eyes around D.C. are a little glassy right now.

Barr’s words and actions are telling. First, he raised the concern that the Trump campaign was “spied” upon. His use of the word “spying” appears more calculated than casual. The wailing and gnashing of teeth that followed is also telling. “The FBI doesn’t spy” became the sputtering counter-refrain of those trying to mask their nervousness.

It’s a fair point that’s beside the point. The FBI is charged with acting under strict legal restrictions and court orders. Spying is not a term traditionally associated with those activities.

But it also misses the point Barr appears to be making. The IC does spy; that’s what they do. Barr may have been referring less to the FBI and more to the IC’s possible murky involvement.

This seems to be validated by Barr’s second haymaker in as many weeks: his appointment of a surrogate investigator, U.S. Attorney John Durham. Why would the attorney general add a third investigation to those under way by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and U.S. Attorney John Huber? Because those investigations are focused on the FBI. Durham’s assignment is not similarly constrained; his marching orders appear broader.

Through Durham, Barr can start dusting for fingerprints across the government, not just the FBI. The squirming has begun.

In just the past week, we’ve seen a rush to comment by the former directors of national intelligence and the CIA. The FBI’s former general counsel has chimed in publicly and, of course, fired FBI Director Comey has been on a media offensive, practicing character assassination as a strategy with Barr among those in his crosshairs.

Each appears to be anxious about his own role in handling the controversial Steele dossier from the Trump-Russia investigation, and so there is some elbowing under the basket to get optimum positioning. And who can blame them? The attorney general has stated that he is going to focus particularly on the dossier’s exploitation, and specifically on the actions of the leadership of those agencies.

Interestingly, this establishes these leaders as principal witnesses in Durham’s inquiry. In essence they are using their easy access to public media platforms to coordinate and communicate their stories among themselves.

Ordinarily, this type of witness activity is troubling, if not borderline obstructive when done privately. In this case, Durham may be licking his chops as a prosecutor since a certain element of finger-pointing among the principals has emerged.

Each also is dealing with an elephant that’s not just in the room but sitting uncomfortably in their laps. Christopher Steele’s dossier is clearly a Russian intelligence operation (“active measure” in IC-speak) that took advantage of a cooperative outreach by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

If these IC leaders didn’t recognize it as such, then it truly was amateur hour at the top. The more troubling scenario would be if each made a conscious decision to ignore the obvious Russian interference attempt and, instead, wring political value out of the dossier.

This is a key area that deserves Durham’s attention. After all, this Russian active measures operation was used to further an FBI counterintelligence investigation against American citizens, and even secure a court order to electronically intercept former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The American people shouldn’t feel badly if all this seems confusing. Even experienced counterintelligence investigators are scratching their heads. The former FBI general counsel to Comey, James Baker, added to the confusion last week with some lawyer language — that the FBI “took the dossier seriously, but not necessarily literally.” Say what?

IG Horowitz likely will take note of that statement as he finalizes his review of possible abuses by Comey and his team of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process. It seems doubtful that a FISA court judge would have granted an electronic surveillance order had he been told the FBI believed Page was acting as an agent of Russia — but not literally so.

Barr also wants to understand the role of CIA confidential sources, or “assets,” that were cozied up next to Page and another former Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos. Both were announced as Trump campaign members the same week in March 2016, and almost immediately began attracting attention from an interesting cast of characters associated with the agency long before the FBI counterintelligence investigation was launched that July.

The CIA has its own set of restrictions about the use of assets against Americans, and this deserves Durham’s focus as well. Former CIA Director John Brennan has commented on his belief in the sufficiency of FBI predication to investigate the Trump campaign but has said little about the CIA’s role in all of this. Durham will want to make sure that CIA asset activity didn’t somehow help create that predication.

IC leaders aren’t used to being held to account by the Justice Department, and their oversight by Congress generally is mild. Theirs is a comfortable world, obfuscated and kept mysterious by the liberal use of their classified-information shield. The demonization of Attorney General Barr has begun — a sign that he is probably on the right track. And the IC leaders are on notice.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciar...sses-on-notice