Trump directs FBI to declassify information related to Russia investigation

[webfact]

Trump directs FBI to declassify information related to Russia investigation

 

U.S. President Donald Trump holds the inaugural meeting of the President's National Council for the American Worker at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 17, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has directed the FBI to immediately declassify additional information related to the investigation into possible election meddling by Russia, the White House said on Monday.

 

He has also directed the Justice Department to publicly release text messages relating to the Russia investigation without redaction from former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, as well as other former and current Justice Department officials, including recently fired FBI agent Peter Strzok who has come under fire for sending texts disparaging Trump as a presidential candidate.

 

(Reporting by Lisa Lambert and Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-09-18

[Boon Mee]

It's all going to come out now. 

Get ready for the indictments. 

[Chomper Higgot]

20 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:

It's all going to come out now. 

Get ready for the indictments. 

Telegraphing what US Intelligence know about Russian interference into the US election seems like one indictment.

 

Is there any question now that Trump is a Russian asset.

[Nyezhov]

The thing that tells me that there is a problem in some of this "classified" stuff are the screeches to keep it secret and the lack of interest from the left-leaning media. It is a sad commentary on the state of Journalism in America today that they do not seem particularly interested in finding out even whether the story of government misconduct is true.

 

and before you accuse me of being a trumpy apologist, please know that I don't trust any government. They are always up to something.

[Chomper Higgot]

2 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

The thing that tells me that there is a problem in some of this "classified" stuff are the screeches to keep it secret and the lack of interest from the left-leaning media. It is a sad commentary on the state of Journalism in America today that they do not seem particularly interested in finding out even whether the story of government misconduct is true.

 

and before you accuse me of being a trumpy apologist, please know that I don't trust any government. They are always up to something.

Is this going to be like Devin Nunes running to the White House and press with documents he got from the White House that he said would prove stuff (other than another example of Trump/Nunes inept criminality).

 

No body’s accusing you of being a Trump apologist, if you were would you have so cruelly tortured his pal Manafort with your avowed assertions that he (Manafort) was not ever going to be convicted?!

[FritsSikkink]

16 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

The thing that tells me that there is a problem in some of this "classified" stuff are the screeches to keep it secret and the lack of interest from the left-leaning media. It is a sad commentary on the state of Journalism in America today that they do not seem particularly interested in finding out even whether the story of government misconduct is true.

 

and before you accuse me of being a trumpy apologist, please know that I don't trust any government. They are always up to something.

"you accuse me of being a trumpy apologist"

No, you are a "lawyer" who knew that Manafort was innocent and would never be convicted.

[Nyezhov]

4 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

"you accuse me of being a trumpy apologist"

No, you are a "lawyer" who knew that Manafort was innocent and would never be convicted.

55555, in light of the post not even a response necessary. Stalk away.

 

And I note you didn't respond to the gravamen of my post, which is typical. I get it. No interest in what the govt does as long as someone else's ox is gored.

Edited September 18, 2018 by Nyezhov

[Chomper Higgot]

9 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

55555, in light of the post not even a response necessary. Stalk away.

 

And I note you didn't respond to the gravamen of my post, which is typical. I get it. No interest in what the govt does as long as someone else's ox is gored.

Nyezhov,

 

your proclamations regarding Manafort’s innocence and assertions that he would not be convicted are lodged in people’s minds - especially so because while making your assertions you batted us all about the head with statements regarding your lawyer qualifications and experience.

 

You possessed the air of one who

has great knowledge to share.

 

But you were utterly wrong.

 

Many of us feel greatly let down, such disappointment is hard to forget.

 

Fritshikkink isn’t stalking you, he’s more likely simply reliving a painful memory of disappointment.

[FritsSikkink]

18 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

55555, in light of the post not even a response necessary.  

So why did you respond?

[Nyezhov]

32 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

So why did you respond?

I meant my Manfort posts Regardless,you are in the camp of not caring what's in the docs? Sad.

[alanrchase]

1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:

The thing that tells me that there is a problem in some of this "classified" stuff are the screeches to keep it secret and the lack of interest from the left-leaning media. It is a sad commentary on the state of Journalism in America today that they do not seem particularly interested in finding out even whether the story of government misconduct is true.

 

and before you accuse me of being a trumpy apologist, please know that I don't trust any government. They are always up to something.

Where is the lack of interest by the "left-leaning media"? They have reported that Trump wants classified documents released. As the documents are classified they have no idea what they contain. Do you expect them to make assumptions about the contents? I suspect Fox may have more of an idea about the contents as Trump has probably told Hannity all about them. More obstruction of justice?

[Becker]

32 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

I meant my Manfort posts Regardless,you are in the camp of not caring what's in the docs? Sad.

And you're in the camp of deflections and predictions that have been spectacularly wrong. And here is just a few examples of the "screeches to keep it secret and the lack of interest from the left-leaning media."

 

CNN

NYT

WAPO

Yahoo News

 

BTW, you still have plenty of egg on your face from your Manafort prediciton. Maybe you should wipe it off before posting any further?

Edited September 18, 2018 by Becker

[Nyezhov]

7 minutes ago, Becker said:

And you're in the camp of deflections and predictions that have been spectacularly wrong. And here is just a few examples of how the "screeches to keep it secret and the lack of interest from the left-leaning media."

 

CNN

NYT

WAPO

Yahoo News

 

BTW, you still have plenty of egg on your face from your Manafort prediciton. Maybe you should wipe it off before posting any further?

My posts in that thread speak for themselves. Anyone is free to read them.

 

anyone is free to read what the Press is saying, as well as mr. Schiff. They're free to make their own judgment.

 

The issue is the declassification of the documents. Are you for or against that? 

 

 

[Becker]

14 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

My posts in that thread speak for themselves. Anyone is free to read them.

 

anyone is free to read what the Press is saying, as well as mr. Schiff. They're free to make their own judgment.

 

The issue is the declassification of the documents. Are you for or against that? 

 

 

This is nothing but a political play designed to try to help the man-child (and hopefully it will backfire spectacularly). It's a blatant interference in an ongoing investigation and dangerous to the intelligence community and members of the law enforcement as it reveals secrets methods of investigation and will make it harder to recruit informants.

So in one word; NO.

 

PS. I have given you a direct answer to a direct question. I expect you to return the favor at a future point in time.

[Nyezhov]

5 minutes ago, Becker said:

This is nothing but a political play designed to try to help the man-child (and hopefully it will backfire spectacularly). It's a blatant interference in an ongoing investigation and dangerous to the intelligence community and members of the law enforcement as it reveals secrets methods of investigation and will make it harder to recruit informants.

So in one word; NO.

 

PS. I have given you a direct answer to a direct question. I expect you to return the favor at a future point in time.

All right, so you trust your government. Did you feel the same way during Iran-Contra?

 

your use of the term Manchild destroys a lot of your credibility. Let me ask you another direct question, if the Declassified documents show abuse, what say you? if folks drink the Trump Kool-Aid, don't some folks drink the anti-trump Kool-Aid?

Edited September 18, 2018 by Nyezhov

[FritsSikkink]

9 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

All right, so you trust your government. Did you feel the same way during Iran-Contra?

Where did he say that, deflecting again.

[Becker]

7 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Let me ask you another direct question....

No, my turn: Did you or did you not confidently predict that Manafort would not go to jail and got that spectacularly wrong - yes or no?

[Tug]

Donald cares nothing for the saftey and security of this country to think that he would expose our gathering of methods of informants of ways of gathering intelligence to save his cheeseburger eating hide is straight up treason there some things that shouldent be aired in public how low Donald?

[zaphod reborn]

3 hours ago, Boon Mee said:

It's all going to come out now. 

Get ready for the indictments. 

Are they going to release Trump's tax returns and all the bank Suspicious Activity Reports with regard to transfers made to officers and directors of the Trump Org?  Mueller already has them, so it won't be long for the indictments.

[Becker]

30 minutes ago, Tug said:

Donald cares nothing for the saftey and security of this country to think that he would expose our gathering of methods of informants of ways of gathering intelligence to save his cheeseburger eating hide is straight up treason there some things that shouldent be aired in public how low Donald?

Exactly. He would gladly see the world go down in flames if it meant he could escape justice. The release of these documents is a <deleted> to all law enforcement personnel in the US and it will make their jobs harder but the man-child really couldn't care less.

 

MAGA???

[mcambl61]

4 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Telegraphing what US Intelligence know about Russian interference into the US election seems like one indictment.

 

Is there any question now that Trump is a Russian asset.

very obtuse statement, but keep going!

[mcambl61]

1 hour ago, zaphod reborn said:

Are they going to release Trump's tax returns and all the bank Suspicious Activity Reports with regard to transfers made to officers and directors of the Trump Org?  Mueller already has them, so it won't be long for the indictments.

what suspicious activity are you referring to or did you read it somewhere?

 

dates/names/details please

[mcambl61]

1 hour ago, Becker said:

Exactly. He would gladly see the world go down in flames if it meant he could escape justice. The release of these documents is a <deleted> to all law enforcement personnel in the US and it will make their jobs harder but the man-child really couldn't care less.

 

MAGA???

thank you for the factual references of your opinion

[johnnybangkok]

1 hour ago, Becker said:

No, my turn: Did you or did you not confidently predict that Manafort would not go to jail and got that spectacularly wrong - yes or no?

Nice try Becker but you are never going to get the likes of Nyezhov, Boon Mee and the likes to ever admit they are wrong. They come on this forum defending their beloved Trump and when they get proven time and time again to be full of it they just wait for the next Trump story (daily obviously) in the vain hope of getting some morsel of good information to corroborate their deep state, libtards and the biased MSM narrative.

This story is obviously another example of Trump's willingness to abuse his power on almost a daily basis. The obvious red line that this crosses puts the FBI and the justice department in an impossible situation wherein an ongoing investigation into a sitting president is put in jeopardy by the very same sitting President. I've said it before and I will say it again, Trump believes he is above the law and has consistently done everything he can to confuse and misdirect this investigation. He has changed his story so many times I'm getting dizzy but truth will be out and I am confident that the worse president EVER will soon be just a bad footnote in history.

     

 

[Thingamabob]

Good move by Donald Trump. To be fair his administration has done a pretty good job so far.

[Becker]

15 minutes ago, mcambl61 said:

thank you for the factual references of your opinion

Factual references? Those are big words, are you sure you know the meaning of them? And why would I need "factual references" when stating an opinion??

[mcambl61]

2 minutes ago, Becker said:

Factual references? Those are big words, are you sure you know the meaning of them? And why would I need "factual references" when stating an opinion??

well aren't you special

[Srikcir]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

He has also directed the Justice Department to publicly release text messages relating to the Russia investigation without redaction from former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, as well as other former and current Justice Department officials, including recently fired FBI agent Peter Strzok who has come under fire for sending texts disparaging Trump as a presidential candidate. (my bold emphasis)

Whatever happened to Trump's attorney insisting that Mueller comply with the unofficial Department of Justice “60-day rule" policy that stipulates that investigators should not take any actions within two months of an election to avoid influencing the outcome.

 

I can't see anyone in the Justice Department complying with Trump's "wishes."

If there is Justice Department support to comply with Trump's wish, Mueller should be free than to immediately bring indictments against all suspected parties related to the Russian election interference conspiracy as well as other federal criminal violations.

[Becker]

10 minutes ago, mcambl61 said:

well aren't you special

You just stated an opinion. Do you have any factual references?

[mcambl61]

6 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

Whatever happened to Trump's attorney insisting that Mueller comply with the unofficial Department of Justice “60-day rule" policy that stipulates that investigators should not take any actions within two months of an election to avoid influencing the outcome.

 

I can't see anyone in the Justice Department complying with Trump's "wishes."

If there is Justice Department support to comply with Trump's wish, Mueller should be free than to immediately bring indictments against all suspected parties related to the Russian election interference conspiracy as well as other federal criminal violations.

fortunately, he is the one that makes that decision.

 

Why is it that no one on the left is curious as to why the DOJ and FBI are ignoring and delaying releasing information? If you are so sure he is guilty then wouldn't you want to see as much as possible?