Posted on 10/26/2018 1:42:14 PM PDT by roses of sharon
In court filings last week the Department of Justice deployed what could be the nuclear option in its latest effort to prevent President Trump from declassifying information regarding FISA warrants used to spy on his campaign aide Carter Page: It is claiming that such a move would interfere with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
This is the first time the DOJ has explicitly made this argument implying personal peril for the president, since interference could open Trump to charges of obstruction of justice. Until now, the department has argued that declassifying the documents threatened national security.
In the 178-page court document, DOJ officials said they had “determined that disclosure of redacted information in the Carter Page FISA documents could reasonably be expected to interfere with the pending investigation into Russian election interference."
That rationale has heightened suspicions among congressional investigators that the special counsel is being used to prevent the disclosure of possible FBI abuses and crimes committed during the Russia probe. Opened by the FBI in July 2016, the Russia investigation was taken over by Mueller when Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed him special counsel in 2017.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
Also, proving that Sessions has sadly chosen to protect the DOJ and the FBI instead of the country.
How does he rationalize protecting the corrupt in government?
Elected Presidents come and go - but the permanent bureaucratic deep state is forever.
“How does he rationalize protecting the corrupt in government? “
Sessions is one of them.
I was one that posted that 4 months ago you should accepted Session release request and pushed for Rosenstein firing. More that 2 months I pushed for immediate release to the Congress. Why are you ignoring Congress? Something wrong with you?
This unravels after the midterms, I think.
POTUS is under attack from Sessions’ DOJ. He should have taken them down when he had the chance. Now he is stuck because he will not have time to defend himself prior to the election. Bruce Ohr is probably part of the team making this declaration. Why is he and others still employed?
And is Sessions bitches, fire his arse too.
He obviously has chosen now to be on the side of the corrupt bureaucracy.
It is hard to believe that he would cover up this coup attempt on a President of the United States.
But it is happening, in slow motion, right before our eyes.
More proof jeff sessions is a traitor to the American people.
Lock him up.
Lock him up.
WAY TOO LATE.
Get it out there before the Dems take the House and squash it all!
Mueller’s biased and unproductive investigation should be obstructed — by his firing.
You people are total idiots.
10 days, 8 hours, 6 min until Election Day.
Then watch our POTUS let’em have it.
Go Trump!
When was this article 1st published ?
A stinking ball of weasels.
Fire them!
Still waiting for Sessions to do one damn thing that helps out the POTUS.
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