Replies to post #309303 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DesertDrifter]

Trump doesn't have to legally show his tax returns to anyone.


Other than to Congress that can subpoena them. I know he can obstruct and run out the clock, but imagine how many indictments Individual-1 will have to answer to when we finally get rid of him.

What is he hiding? Certainly his accountants would not put any more payoffs to his concubines on his return as a deduction for "mushroom polishing"? It might be as simple as that it would show he is not a billionaire. So you prefer mollifying his ego over the separation of powers that allows congress to subpoena the POS?

What a patriot you are.

[blackhawks]

More Trumpanzee wishful thinking. You know we're going to hold you to this bat-shit crazy prediction in particular, right?

Goodbye Comey, Goodbye Brennan..Goodbye to many...this gonna hurt...stay tuned. Really...End of May and June are going to be painful and eye opening months for Trumps foes...

Sneak preview: IG finds no evidence of criminal intent or actions surrounding the investigations of candidate Trump or president Trump.

And then there is this....

To Understand Mueller’s Work, Focus on Counterintelligence

By Nate Jones
Friday, March 29, 2019, 12:24 PM

https://www.lawfareblog.com/understand-muellers-work-focus-counterintelligence

According to some reports, the Department of Justice does plan to brief the congressional intelligence committees on its counterintelligence findings. This is not terribly surprising in light of the obligation, under 50 U.S.C. § 3092, to keep the congressional intelligence committees currently and fully informed of all intelligence activities.

As this aspect of Mueller’s work plays out in the coming months, it is worth unpacking some of the primary distinctions between these criminal and counterintelligence investigations, to understand both the potential importance of the information that remains hidden and what the public can expect from it when it emerges.

As the Mueller investigation demonstrated, the two types of probes are indistinguishable at the investigative stage. The FBI’s internal guidelines explain this clearly:


While some distinctions in the requirements and procedures for investigations are necessary in different subject areas, the general design of these Guidelines is to take a uniform approach wherever possible, thereby promoting certainty and consistency regarding the applicable standards and facilitating compliance with those standards.

Hence, these Guidelines do not require that the FBI’s information gathering activities be differentially labeled as “criminal investigations,” “national security investigations,” or “foreign intelligence collections,” or that the categories of FBI personnel who carry out investigations be segregated from each other based on the subject areas in which they operate.

Rather, all of the FBI’s legal authorities are available for deployment in all cases to which they apply to protect the public from crimes and threats to the national security and to further the United States’ foreign intelligence objectives.

In many cases, a single investigation will be supportable as an exercise of a number of these authorities—i.e., as an investigation of a federal crime or crimes, as an investigation of a threat to the national security, and/or as a collection of foreign intelligence

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