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HOLY SHÏT. THE DOJ IS REFUSING TO ADMIT (GLOMAR) WHETHER OR NOT TRUMP WAS DIRECTLY A TARGET OF THE COMEY PROBE!!!

Feds won't confirm Comey assurances to Trump on Russia probe



Feds won't confirm Comey assurances to Trump on Russia probe
JOSH GERSTEIN10/11/2017 02:16 PM EDT
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The Justice Department appears to be withholding most records related to the Trump-Russia inquiry now being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. | AP

The Justice Department is refusing to confirm whether President Donald Trump was or was not ever a target or subject of the ongoing probe into alleged Russian meddling in the presidential campaign, despite Trump's public claims that he was repeatedly given such assurances by former FBI Director James Comey.

In a letter Tuesday responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a POLITICO reporter, a Justice Department lawyer said the agency won't hand over any records that would confirm Trump's status in any investigation.

Justice is also declining to produce any records about the debate Comey says took place over whether to tell Trump earlier this year that he wasn't a focus of the Russia probe. In fact, the agency won't even say whether such records exist.

"Please be advised that this Office can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any records responsive to your request," wrote Daniel Castellano, a senior attorney in Justice's Office of Information Policy. He said the disclosing whether the records exist could interference with ongoing enforcement proceedings, which he did not identify.

A legal brief detailing the government's legal stance is due Wednesday in federal court in Washington.

Attorney Brad Moss, who brought the FOIA suit on behalf of POLITICO and the James Madison Project, said the government's position is untenable because the president's statements amount to official acknowledgement of investigators' decision to discuss with him his status in the probe.

“The government’s response makes a mockery of the president’s repeated denials that he is under investigation. Is the government suggesting that the president doesn’t speak for the Executive Branch over which he presides?" Moss said. "The Government is apparently going to try and claim that the president’s past official statements are of no particular consequence ... What credibility can they afford to the official statements of the President of the United States when his own Justice Department says that they aren’t actually legitimate or necessarily accurate?”

White House lawyer Ty Cobb did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the development.

The government's neither-confirm-nor-deny stance is known as a Glomar response, which takes its name from litigation in the 1970s aimed at confirming the CIA's alleged use of a salvage ship called the Hughes Glomar Explorer.

Courts have upheld such responses, but judges have sometimes rejected that approach when there has been an official confirmation of the some of the events in question.

While the Justice Department appears to be withholding most records related to the Trump-Russia inquiry now being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, before Trump fired Comey in May the then-FBI chief confirmed in House testimony that such an investigation was underway.

In addition, later that month, the Justice Department released the order from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that appointed Mueller as a special prosecutor to take over that investigation and related matters.



Josh Gerstein is a senior reporter for POLITICO.


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“I Hate Everyone”: Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear He Is “Unraveling”

At first it sounded like hyperbole, the escalation of a Twitter war. But now it’s clear that Bob Corker’s remarkable New York Timesinterview—in which the Republican senator described the White House as “adult day care” and warned Trump could start World War III—was an inflection point in the Trump presidency. It brought into the open what several people close to the president have recently told me in private: that Trump is “unstable,” “losing a step,” and “unraveling.”

The conversation among some of the president’s longtime confidantes, along with the character of some of the leaks emerging from the White House has shifted. There’s a new level of concern. NBC News published a report that Trump shocked his national security team when he called for a nearly tenfold increase in the country’s nuclear arsenal during a briefing this summer. One Trump adviser confirmed to me it was after this meeting disbanded that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “moron.”In recent days, I spoke with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president who seems to be increasingly unfocused and consumed by dark moods. Trump’s ire is being fueled by his stalled legislative agenda and, to a surprising degree, by his decision last month to back the losing candidate Luther Strange in the Alabama Republican primary. “Alabama was a huge blow to his psyche,” a person close to Trump said. “He saw the cult of personality was broken.”

Even before Corker’s remarks, some West Wing advisers were worried that Trump’s behavior could cause the Cabinet to take extraordinary Constitutional measures to remove him from office. Several months ago, according to two sources with knowledge of the conversation, former chief strategist Steve Bannontold Trump that the risk to his presidency wasn’t impeachment, but the 25th Amendment—the provision by which a majority of the Cabinet can vote to remove the president. When Bannon mentioned the 25th Amendment, Trump said, “What’s that?” According to a source, Bannon has told people he thinks Trump has only a 30 percent chance of making it the full term.
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I hope he has a fukkin stroke in there and drools in the corner and the whole left side of his body is paralyzed :steviej: :pacspit:
 
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Nap, with all due respect, could you you please post links to the articles and just quote highlights ? We can all click on a link. Thank you.
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U talking to a brick wall. Nap thinks the rules apply to everyone except him. Then he has the audacity to complain about others violating rules.

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House Intelligence Committee will release Facebook’s Russia ads
House Intelligence Committee will release Facebook's Russia ads
Politico - 1h ago


House Intelligence Committee leaders announced Wednesday that they will release Facebook ads linked to Russian efforts to influence U.S.
House Intelligence Committee will release Facebook’s Russia ads
House Intelligence Committee will release Facebook's Russia ads

Politico - 1h ago


House Intelligence Committee leaders announced Wednesday that they will release Facebook ads linked to Russian efforts to influence U.S.


Didn’t they said las week that they were not going to? :comeon:
 
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