A community read: The Mueller report, Part III -- (and previous weeks' reports)
Susan Grigsby for Daily Kos Community Sunday July 07, 2019 · 10:30 AM CDT
Welcome to the Daily Kos community read of the Mueller report. We are working our way through the Mueller report at a pace of roughly 100 pages per week. The introduction can be found here, Part I is here, and last week’s Part II is here.
If you’d care to join us, a free pdf of the redacted report is available from the Department of Justice. https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf Multiple digital editions can be obtained from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and/or Apple Books. I went with the Washington Post edition, out of habit, I guess, but there are plenty of editions to choose from. After listening to the report on Audible, I realized that I would need the large paperback edition that would let me highlight the text and write notes in the margin.
This week we are looking at the first half of Volume II of the Mueller report, beginning with the Executive Summary and continuing up to Section II, Part G.
The first president of the U.S.A. who gains huge applause from his fans for threatening to jail a political opponent. The first to repeatedly direct the Justice Department to go after a political opponent. Trump is the first president to attempt to force the Attorney General of the U.S.A. to act as his own personal attorney. Appointing Sessions was his biggest mistake. Now he has Barr, as he has described Putin and Kim, a fine man. A very tough, so fine, man. His own. The first president to order an investigation into how American intelligence analysts arrived at the conclusion that a foreign government had interfered in a presidential election in favor of the one who ended up being elected. How would you feel, as an intelligence analyst of the future, if you reached conclusions as those reached as revealed in the Mueller investigation? Would you write it down? Or tell anyone, knowing you could be targeted by a president of the future? Thank goodness many of those analysts of the investigation of election 2016 are alive to tell how and why they reached the conclusion that the president who gained from the foreign interference has labeled fake news.
From video:
Justice Dept. Seeks to Question C.I.A. in Its Own Russia Investigation
Gina Haspel, the C.I.A. director, has told senior officials at the agency that it will cooperate with the Justice Department review of the origins of the Russia inquiry. Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times
By Julian E. Barnes, Katie Benner, Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt June 12, 2019 WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials intend to interview senior C.I.A. officers as they review the Russia investigation, according to people briefed on the matter, indicating they are focused partly on the intelligence agencies’ most explosive conclusion .. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/politics/russia-hack-report.html?module=inline .. about the 2016 election: that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia intervened to benefit Donald J. Trump. [...] ...Mr. Barr has been interested in how the C.I.A. drew its conclusions about Russia’s election sabotage, particularly the judgment that Mr. Putin ordered that operatives help Mr. Trump by discrediting his opponent, Hillary Clinton, according to current and former American officials. P - Mr. Barr wants to know more about the C.I.A. sources who helped inform its understanding of the details of the Russian interference campaign, an official has said. He also wants to better understand the intelligence that flowed from the C.I.A. to the F.B.I. in the summer of 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/us/politics/russia-investigation-cia.html
Reflections on the President’s Delegation of Declassification Authority to the Attorney General [...] These days, many Americans fear, the attorney general has been given a different role: facilitating the political declassification of intelligence community materials the president wishes to make public to retaliate against the intelligence leadership for investigating him. Whereas once the public needed the attorney general to protect it from abuses by the intelligence agencies, today some believe that the intelligence agencies need protection from the attorney general. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=149096118
Justin Amash on what his GOP colleagues say privately
CNN Published on Jul 8, 2019
Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) tells CNN's Jake Tapper what high-level Republican officials have told him about President Trump behind closed doors. #CNN #News
The prosperity gospel makes a mockery of Christianity Preachers who get rich by saying success is a mark of divine favour go against what Jesus taught – maybe he had a point
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