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President Trump is resurrecting a potentially powerful board capable of intimately reviewing intelligence agency conduct on his direct orders.
The White House announced five appointments to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board on Tuesday evening, after selecting a chairman and vice chairwoman earlier this year.
The dormant board created by former President Dwight Eisenhower has no formal powers, but derives significant authority directly from the president, operating as his surrogate to smooth over agency rivalries, investigate misconduct, and evaluate intelligence collection policies.
Experts say Trump could roil the intelligence community by asking his hand-picked panel to draft reports, for example, on alleged surveillance abuses against his 2016 campaign associates, a disputed charge made by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, who are poised to lose subpoena powers.
"The board can do whatever the hell the president wants it to do, and really it’s about what the president tasks it with," said University of Notre Dame professor Michael Desch, co-author of the authoritative 2012 history of the board, Privileged and Confidential: The Secret History of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
President Trump is being pressed for details on his daughter’s email use in office by the same Republican responsible for spearheading the congressional investigation into his former White House rival, Hillary Clinton, that uncovered details about her own email habits while secretary of state.
Democrats accused Mr. Trump of hypocrisy, saying that while the volume of emails sent from a private address was much greater in Mrs. Clinton’s case, the basic alleged violation of law was the same.
“We launched a bipartisan investigation last year into White House officials’ use of private email accounts for official business, but the White House never gave us the information we requested,” said Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Democrat and the likely incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
“We need those documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other officials are complying with federal records laws and there is a complete record of the activities of this Administration,” he said in a statement Tuesday.
After a lengthy hearing yesterday Judge Sullivan ruled that Clinton must address two questions that she refused to answer under-oath.
1.) Describe the creation of the clintonemail.com system, including who decided to create the system, the date it was decided to create the system, why it was created, who set it up, and when it became operational.
During your October 22, 2015 appearance before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Benghazi, you testified that 90 to 95 percent of your emails “were in the State’s system” and “if they wanted to see them, they would certainly have been able to do so.”
2.) Identify the basis for this statement, including all facts on which you relied in support of the statement, how and when you became aware of these facts, and, if you were made aware of these facts by or through another person, identify the person who made you aware of these facts.
The lawsuit, which seeks records regarding the authorization for Abedin to engage in outside employment while employed by the Department of State, was reopened because of revelations about the clintonemail.com system. The court also granted discovery to Judicial Watch to help determine if and how Clinton’s email system thwarted FOIA.
In a letter to John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, Mr. Gowdy asked how many emails sent from Ms. Trump’s private account touched on official business and whether any contained classified information. He also asked the White House to certify that the emails in question had been properly preserved and archived as outlined in the Presidential Records Act.
“They aren’t classified like Hillary Clinton. They weren’t deleted like Hillary Clinton,” said Mr. Trump. “What Ivanka did, it’s all in the presidential records. Everything is there.”
originally posted by: TheOne7
originally posted by: imthegoat
originally posted by: TheOne7
Whithaker smeared himself over the years and has been pulled to the front of the swamp by the "THING".
Surely some part of ats would care that any actions by an unconstitutional appointment would be null and void if the scotus finds sessions "resignation forced". There is ample evidence to prove this to any just judge. It was a hail mary pass to try to undermine the justice system.
Solution is to simply vote him in but that is not on the 4d chess board atm cause it would interfere with the plan of nullification of legality. Truth is not left of right.
You might want to check the Vacancy Act. His appointment is legal.
Yea i checked and it states that since sessions was forced to resign the appointment is null and void. When the justice system has no legal head then all actions are null and void until it is fixed.
On top of that the guy is now under investigation by the office of legal council and his past is highly unethical when contrasted against the expected quality of such an appointment.
The ruling that the office of legal council gave on him was under the expectation that sessions resigned willfully. He did not.
The vacancies act was put in place to ensure that someone would not be forced out or fired and then replaced without advice and consent. This is yet another example of obstruction of justice. Throw it on the pile.........
originally posted by: AgarthaSeed
originally posted by: TheOne7
originally posted by: imthegoat
originally posted by: TheOne7
originally posted by: imthegoat
originally posted by: TheOne7
Whithaker smeared himself over the years and has been pulled to the front of the swamp by the "THING".
Surely some part of ats would care that any actions by an unconstitutional appointment would be null and void if the scotus finds sessions "resignation forced". There is ample evidence to prove this to any just judge. It was a hail mary pass to try to undermine the justice system.
Solution is to simply vote him in but that is not on the 4d chess board atm cause it would interfere with the plan of nullification of legality. Truth is not left of right.
You might want to check the Vacancy Act. His appointment is legal.
Yea i checked and it states that since sessions was forced to resign the appointment is null and void. When the justice system has no legal head then all actions are null and void until it is fixed.
On top of that the guy is now under investigation by the office of legal council and his past is highly unethical when contrasted against the expected quality of such an appointment.
The ruling that the office of legal council gave on him was under the expectation that sessions resigned willfully. He did not.
The vacancies act was put in place to ensure that someone would not be forced out or fired and then replaced without advice and consent. This is yet another example of obstruction of justice. Throw it on the pile.........
Sessions resignation wasnt forced. It was requested, and he fulfilled the request. Where you get "forced" from is beyond me.
I had high hopes for potus but he is unraveling now cause of the pressure and the people he has surrounded himself with.
8 months and he is out.
Since November of 2016 I've won over $300 from multiple people betting me that Trump would be removed from office.
First he wasn't gonna be inaugurated.
Then he was toast by summer 2017.
Then there was no way in hell he was making it to January of 2018.
Care to place a wager? 😃
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
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PANIC on the streets of London. PANIC on the streets of Birmingham
MI6 Scrambling To Stop Trump From Releasing Classified Docs In Russia Probe
The Telegraph has talked to more than a dozen UK and US officials, including in American intelligence, who have revealed details about the row.
British spy chiefs have “genuine concern” about sources being exposed if classified parts of the wiretap request were made public, according to figures familiar with discussions.
"It boils down to the exposure of people”, said one US intelligence official, adding: “We don’t want to reveal sources and methods.” US intelligence shares the concerns of the UK.
Another said Britain feared setting a dangerous “precedent” which could make people less likely to share information, knowing that it could one day become public. -The Telegraph