RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT
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Hood Critic
The Power Circle
:damnanimated:
thernbroom
Superstar
Hopefully they hold them in contempt if they don't comply as they previously suggested. Locked these clowns up.
NUNES :Russmartilaw:
I will ride with you because you really don’t post in bad faith, but this is the kind of fan fic that these fukking degenerates are posting and believing. I watched the interview with Gowdy, and though I would never trust this piece of shyt, he seems more to be nervous about what the party is doing, and he doesn’t want to be a part of this, realizing he has contributed to this shytshow. I think he has a little bit of Boy Scout left in him, and he knows how fukked up he is helping to make this country.
I say all that, to say this
fukk TREY GOWDY
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
He only wants your trust long enough to try to get his Hoover on, f*ck him but it is a plausible bait and switch he is playing.
i agree with you.
im not sure if somebody puled his coat
or he really was remembering some shyt from his prosecutor/law days
or if the light just went off over the top of his head that shyt was about to get real
but yeah
fukk TREY GOWDY AND ANYONE WHO LOVES HIS bytchASS
It would depend on if it was a position that he needed a vote on to get in, and also the timing. I fully expect to see the blue tsunami, which is going to make it a lot harder to get these picks in. I don’t trust him either, but IMO I don’t think he is running any sort of chess move, after the bhengazi shyt, it would be very hard for him to get approved through .
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
Nap come get your boy, I knew it was only a matter of time.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
Honestly the only thing that got me thinking was that I have NEVER EVER heard or seen a GOP Congressman/Senator leave to a position that some might consider to be a demotion. They typically leave and then get PAID - a lifetime appointment on as a federal judge means appx 200K. I get that lot of GOP are retiring/resigning bc of the impending losses. But to then say that it's so he could go back to the justice system? He hasn't banked enough goodwill with me to give him the benefit of the doubt - especially when you consider his past pattern and practice. If he was truly that concerned with maintaining the integrity of the investigation etc, then he wouldn't have drafted the memo. It was clearly meant to provide cover to trump's attempt to derail FBI/Mueller.
:ALERTRED::ALERTRED::ALERTRED:
The Times Asks Court to Unseal Documents on Surveillance of Carter Page
The Times Asks Court to Unseal Documents on Surveillance of Carter Page
The Times Asks Court to Unseal Documents on Surveillance of Carter Page
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and ADAM GOLDMANFEB. 5, 2018
A memo written by Republican congressional aides disclosed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved surveillance targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, in October 2016. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
WASHINGTON — The New York Times notified the Justice Department on Monday that it is asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to unseal secret documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the onetime Trump campaign adviser at the center of a disputed memo written by Republican staffers on the House Intelligence Committee.
The motion is unusual. No such wiretapping application materials apparently have become public since Congress first enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978. That law regulates electronic spying on domestic soil — the interception of phone calls and emails — undertaken in the name of monitoring suspected spies and terrorists, as opposed to wiretapping for investigating ordinary criminal suspects.
Normally, even the existence of such material is a closely guarded secret. While applications for criminal wiretaps often eventually become public, the government has refused to disclose the contents of applications for intelligence wiretaps — even to defendants who are later prosecuted on the basis of information derived from them.
But President Trump lowered the shield of secrecy surrounding such materials on Friday by declassifying the Republican memo about Mr. Page, after finding that the public interest in disclosing its contents outweighed any need to protect the information. Because Mr. Trump did so, the Times argues, there is no longer a justification “for the Page warrant orders and application materials to be withheld in their entirety,” and “disclosure would serve the public interest.”
The Republican memo acknowledged that the intelligence court had approved surveillance targeting Mr. Page in October 2016 and later approved three applications for 90-day extensions, meaning he was observed for at least a year under the warrant. The memo named the officials who signed off on the applications and described purported claims and purported omissions in those materials.
The central claim of the Republican memo, which was drafted under the direction of Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the Intelligence Committee, is that law enforcement officials running the early stages of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and possible links to the Trump campaign abused their surveillance authorities and misled the court.
The memo contends that the application used material gathered by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, without disclosing to the court that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign financed his work as opposition research. The implication is that judges who approved the wiretapping did not know it might be biased and were thus misled about its credibility.
But the credibility of the accusations in the memo are themselves the subject of intense dispute. Democrats who have seen the underlying materials say the Republican memo contains serious material inaccuracies and omissions, such as failing to include unrelated evidence about Mr. Page and Russia that the court also saw and mischaracterizing other facts.
For example, Democrats say that the FISA judges were, in fact, told that the financing of Mr. Steele’s research was politically motivated, even if the funders were not identified by name.
They have produced their own, still-classified rebuttal memo, but the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee voted against making it public. Democrats are still pushing to make its contents public, but it is not clear whether the Republican-controlled Congress and Mr. Trump will permit that to happen.
“Given the overwhelming public interest in assessing the accuracy of the Nunes memorandum and knowing the actual basis for the Page surveillance orders,” the Times’ motion says, the court should direct the publication of its orders and the application materials "with only such limited redactions as may be essential to preserve information that remains properly classified notwithstanding the declassification and dissemination of the Nunes memorandum."
The Times also submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Justice Department on Friday asking the executive branch to disclose, following a declassification review, the same materials. That request is not yet ripe for litigation.
In the motion asking the intelligence court to unseal the Page materials, The Times is being represented in part by the Yale Law School Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic in the litigation.
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