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Kimberley Strassel: Mr. Trump, end DOJ’s campaign of secrecy -- Declassify everything possible

By Kimberley A. Strassel | The Wall Street Journal

The Real Constitutional Crisis

The FBI and Justice Department continue evading congressional oversight.

Government 'officials' acknowledged in the New York Times that the FBI had used at least one informant to spy on both Trump aides Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.

Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel says the press has ignored this story because they still want the Russian collusion narrative to be true.

We are told that Mr. Trump cannot be allowed to have any say over the Justice Department’s actions, since this might make him privy to sensitive details about an investigation into himself.
We are also told that Congress—a separate branch of government, a primary duty of which is oversight—cannot be allowed to access Justice Department material.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes can’t be trusted to view classified information—something every intelligence chairman has done—since he might blow a source or method, or tip off the president.

That’s a political judgment, but it holds no authority.

The Constitution set up Congress to act as a check on the executive branch—and it’s got more than enough cause to do some checking here.

Yet the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation have spent a year disrespecting Congress—flouting subpoenas, ignoring requests, hiding witnesses, blacking out information, and leaking accusations.

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-constitutional-crisis-1527201552