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Thursday, May 24, 2018 9:32:29 PM
mr40, 'It's a f---ing circus': Experts are floored that White House officials attended highly classified briefings about the Russia probe
Sonam Sheth
President Donald Trump has upped his attacks on the justice apparatus this week. Associated Press/Evan Vucci
* National-security experts and legal experts were "gobsmacked" by senior White House officials' attendance Thursday at a classified briefing about the Russia investigation and reports that an FBI informant had talked to the Trump campaign.
* The White House chief of staff, the White House counsel, three GOP lawmakers, and one Democrat met with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to glean more details about the informant and other details of the Russia investigation.
* One former FBI official described the situation — and President Donald Trump's and his allies' broadsides against the DOJ — as a "f---ing circus."politicians from both sides have said Flood should not have been anywhere near the meeting.
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The first briefing Thursday included Kelly, Flood, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and ranking member Adam Schiff, House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Schiff was invited at the last minute after Democrats slammed Nunes and Gowdy for what they described as a partisan briefing that could be weaponized against the Justice Department and Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether members of the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow or attempted to obstruct justice.
The second briefing included Kelly, Rosenstein, Wray, Coats, Nunes, Schiff, and most other members of the so-called Gang of Eight, a bipartisan group consisting of the Republican and Democratic leaders of the intelligence committees and the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate. Ryan said he would not be able to attend, citing scheduling conflicts.
http://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-russia-briefings-classified-experts-react-2018-5
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And, though the Sheryl Mills and other pardons have nothing to do with the fact that Republicans are making a
joke of the idea of bi-partisan congressional oversight, you should know your comment on that are inaccurate.
For example, you say, "She was then granted immunity by the DOJ and not the FBI", when in fact she was given only partial, very narrow immunity
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee stressed in a statement emailed to reporters that the immunity offers to Mills and Samuelson were "very limited."
"These very limited immunity agreements did not extend to any testimony before Congress, statements to the FBI, or assertions to any other investigators," they said.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/mills-immunity-228580
and, in that same link
Immunity offers to witnesses are not made by the FBI, but by the Justice Department. A department spokesman declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the FBI had no immediate comment.
I guess you got your mistakes from one of your reliable sources.
As for the rest of your out-dated fixation, it's old, been there done that. Forget it.
Sonam Sheth
President Donald Trump has upped his attacks on the justice apparatus this week. Associated Press/Evan Vucci
* National-security experts and legal experts were "gobsmacked" by senior White House officials' attendance Thursday at a classified briefing about the Russia investigation and reports that an FBI informant had talked to the Trump campaign.
* The White House chief of staff, the White House counsel, three GOP lawmakers, and one Democrat met with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to glean more details about the informant and other details of the Russia investigation.
* One former FBI official described the situation — and President Donald Trump's and his allies' broadsides against the DOJ — as a "f---ing circus."politicians from both sides have said Flood should not have been anywhere near the meeting.
[...]
The first briefing Thursday included Kelly, Flood, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and ranking member Adam Schiff, House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Schiff was invited at the last minute after Democrats slammed Nunes and Gowdy for what they described as a partisan briefing that could be weaponized against the Justice Department and Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether members of the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow or attempted to obstruct justice.
The second briefing included Kelly, Rosenstein, Wray, Coats, Nunes, Schiff, and most other members of the so-called Gang of Eight, a bipartisan group consisting of the Republican and Democratic leaders of the intelligence committees and the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate. Ryan said he would not be able to attend, citing scheduling conflicts.
http://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-russia-briefings-classified-experts-react-2018-5
*
And, though the Sheryl Mills and other pardons have nothing to do with the fact that Republicans are making a
joke of the idea of bi-partisan congressional oversight, you should know your comment on that are inaccurate.
For example, you say, "She was then granted immunity by the DOJ and not the FBI", when in fact she was given only partial, very narrow immunity
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee stressed in a statement emailed to reporters that the immunity offers to Mills and Samuelson were "very limited."
"These very limited immunity agreements did not extend to any testimony before Congress, statements to the FBI, or assertions to any other investigators," they said.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/mills-immunity-228580
and, in that same link
Immunity offers to witnesses are not made by the FBI, but by the Justice Department. A department spokesman declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the FBI had no immediate comment.
I guess you got your mistakes from one of your reliable sources.
As for the rest of your out-dated fixation, it's old, been there done that. Forget it.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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