The challenge for House and Senate investigators is to get the information to the public. One option is to ask the executive branch to declassify it. The problem is that simply getting the information out of the FBI and Justice Department has been like pulling teeth. Another option is to have the president himself declassify it. The problem is that it is probably a good idea for President Trump to stay out of a congressional investigative process that focuses on his campaign. Yet another option is for Congress to exercise its little-known authority to declassify. The problem is that it is a long and complicated process.
Maybe it would be better to just do an old-fashioned leak. The problem with that is that it would open the leaker to the legitimate charge of revealing classified information. Whether that happens could depend on how widely the information is disseminated inside Congress. The more members and staff who know, the more likely it will get out.
On June 27, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham wrote a letter to the FBI and Justice Department seeking "all proposed FISA applications that the FBI and Justice Department submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)" in the course of investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. The request included "the FISC's responses to such proposed FISA applications; all final, signed FISA applications that the FBI and the Justice Department submitted to the FISC; and the FISC's responses to the final, signed applications."
It's not clear whether Grassley and Graham got everything they wanted. But it is clear that congressional investigators know some very critical facts regarding the dossier's role in the Trump-Russia investigation, and it is time the public did, too. .....
article actually dated 1/10/2018
They’ve delayed the Ohr interview and CTH suggests that Nunes and the rest are deliberately waiting until after they re-up FISA-702—albeit with fixes to stop abuse—before dropping more bombs. Hopefully the delay doesn’t take all the way to February.
If there were anything that made Trump look bad, the Democrats would have leaked it immediately.
And no leaks so far. The lunatic Democrats must not like what they read.
Bull$hit to any “classification” designed to cover up the FBI sedition in the 2016 election. Time for a Congressman to grow some balls and just say it on the capitol steps.
DARE the DOJ to try to arrest him and say he will trust the nation to protect him.
The coup must hit a brick wall. It’s time.
One thing is for sure.
With Jeff Sessions recused, and acting AG on these matters, Rod Rosenstein in charge, the DOJ doing something isn't an option.
These Congressional committees continue to press for the same special counsel to investigate it that they have been calling for since July 2017. The special counsel that should have been appointed in May 2107 when Rosenstein decided to appoint a special counsel to investigate Trump, instead, even though this information was already out.
If the DOJ refuses to ever appoint the special counsel, Congress should vote to change the special counsel law back to the one that allows Congress to appoint special counsels, whether the DOJ approves or not. That would be a drastic step, but so far the DOJ appears unwilling to do anything but sweep things under their rug. Unless it comes to the investigation against Trump, of course, for which they quickly appointed a special counsel.
Block “702” at all costs, This was a rape of the Constitution. NEVER AGAIN!! Bring it down.
Now what?
Some Kabuki Theatre.
No one will be indicted for any of the myriad crimes committed during the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
EVERYONE in the District of Corruption (except Trump) is complicit in violating the Constitution.
That’s been Obama’s invisible shield all along.
What will happen now? A very large bucket of absolutely nothing.
Yes. Haven't you heard all the "harrumphs" ???