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originally posted by: Extorris
I am confused how Mike Pompeo's awareness of a conversation makes it legal?
I suspect Pompeo will be resigning in the next 30 days.
originally posted by: burntheships
originally posted by: Extorris
I am confused how Mike Pompeo's awareness of a conversation makes it legal?
I suspect Pompeo will be resigning in the next 30 days.
Because Pompeo is authorized to cooperate with the DOJ
by President Trump.
Barr came out with a statement through the DOJ
that he had asked President Trump to introduce
the investigation though his diplomatic phone calls.
Cant fall for the fake news and go over a cliff.
You would be looking back with great regret.
originally posted by: Liquesence
Still doesn't make it legal.
originally posted by: Liquesence
Still doesn't make it legal.
Especially if DOJ/Barr are just as corrupt, or the president using the DOJ for corrupt purposes. .
originally posted by: burntheships
originally posted by: Extorris
I am confused how Mike Pompeo's awareness of a conversation makes it legal?
I suspect Pompeo will be resigning in the next 30 days.
Barr came out with a statement through the DOJ
that he had asked President Trump to introduce
the investigation though his diplomatic phone calls.
He wrote legal justifications for the practice of rendition, so that the FBI could enter onto foreign soil without the consent of the host government to apprehend fugitives wanted by the United States government for terrorism or drug-trafficking.
Barr declined a congressional request for the full opinion, but instead provided a document that "summarizes the principal conclusions."
Congress subpoenaed the opinion, and its public release after Barr's departure from the Justice Department showed he had omitted significant findings in the opinion from his summary document.
In 1992, Barr launched a surveillance program to gather records of innocent Americans' international phone calls.
The DOJ Inspector General concluded that this program was launched without a review of the legality of the program.
According to USA Today, the program "provided a blueprint for far broader phone-data surveillance the government launched after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."
Iran-Contra
In late 1992, Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, who had been chosen to investigate the Iran–Contra affair, found documents in the possession of Reagan's former defense secretary, Caspar Weinberger, which Walsh said was "evidence of a conspiracy among the highest-ranking Reagan Administration officials to lie to Congress and the American public." Weinberger was set to stand trial on felony charges on January 5, 1993.[[48] His "indictment said Mr. Weinberger's notes contradicted Mr. Bush's assertions that he had only a fragmentary knowledge of the arms secretly sold to Iran in 1985 and 1986 in exchange for American hostages in Lebanon." According to Walsh, then-president Bush might have been called as a witness.
On December 24, 1992, during his final month in office, Bush, on the advice of Barr, pardoned Weinberger, along with five other administration officials who had been found guilty on charges relating to the Iran–Contra affair. Barr was consulted extensively regarding the pardons, and especially advocated for pardoning Weinberger.
Walsh complained about the move insinuating that Bush on Barr's advice had used the pardons to avoid testifying and stating that: "The Iran-contra cover-up, which has continued for more than six years, has now been completed." In 2003, he wrote an account of the investigation in his book, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up.
Because of this and Barr's unwillingness to appoint an independent counsel to look into a second scandal known as Iraqgate, New York Times writer William Safire began to refer to Barr as "Coverup-General Barr." Barr, however, responded that he believed Bush had made the right decision regarding that and he felt people in the case had been treated unfairly. Barr said that Walsh was a "head-hunter" who "had completely lost perspective."
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
originally posted by: Liquesence
Still doesn't make it legal.
Especially if DOJ/Barr are just as corrupt, or the president using the DOJ for corrupt purposes. .
Care to post the laws that Barr, or the POTUS have been abusing/breaking?...
Put your money where your mouth is or stfua.
Now some people want to pretend they didn't know that?
originally posted by: shooterbrody
a reply to: burntheships
Now some people want to pretend they didn't know that?
or pretend such is an abuse of power......
ongoing investigations are a bear....
originally posted by: Ahabstar
Dear Mr Brennan,
I believe that I witnessed a major felony being committed the other night on the television, namely Conspiracy to Commit Treason against the people of the United States. I do not feel comfortable at this time naming all the names as co-conspirators are still coming forward at this time.
The specific questions I did want to ask is to as if the powers of citizen’s arrest still allows for nationwide jurisdiction for those that witness a felony and that any force including lethal force can still be used to make an arrest? You can understand my hesitation as the laws seemingly change without notice lately on various aspects of the law. Changed almost on a whim anymore it seems.
Thank you for your years of service. As a student of history, I can tell you that General Benedict Arnold did some wonderful things for this fledgling country before turning traitor. Unfortunately history will not look as kindly of today’s crop as they contributed no benefit at all.
Wish you luck with the future, you will need it.
originally posted by: Extorris
Just off the top of my head
Bribery, Extortion, Campaign Finance Violations, Soliciting Campaign Contributions and Donations by Foreign Nationals, Misuse of Public Funds, Obstruction of Justice, Honest Services Fraud, Witness Intimidation, Conspiracy, Misuse of a classified system