Posted on 09/09/2018 5:26:45 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump is expected to declassify a series of documents related to both former campaign adviser Carter Page and Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr, according to an Axios report on Sunday.
Trump could declassify the documents relating to Page and the activities of senior DOJ lawyer Ohr as early as this week, Axios reported.
Allies of the president told the outlet that Trump and congressional Republicans have been pushing for the release of the documents.
"After two years of investigations and accusations from both sides of the aisle about what documents indicate, it is past time for documents to be declassified and let the American people decide for themselves if DoJ and FBI acted properly,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told the outlet.
Republicans on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees have argued that the documents showcase alleged anti-Trump bias within the DOJ and thus discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
The GOP has long questioned whether the federal probe into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia was launched based on the controversial dossier from former British Christopher Steele.
Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that funded Steele’s research behind the document.
Axios noted that Ohr did not disclose on federal forms that his wife worked on Russia-related matters for the firm during the presidential election.
Ohr, who previously served as associate deputy attorney general, was demoted late last year over his contacts with Steele.
Trump has escalated his attacks on Ohr in several weeks, asking in a tweet "how the hell" Ohr was still employed at the DOJ.
"I think Bruce Ohr is a disgrace," Trump tweeted in July. “I suspect I'll be taking it away very quickly. For him to be in the Justice Department and doing what he did, that is a disgrace.”
How do you obstruct justice by revealing truth?
unless we can put pressure in the right places, the media can snuff it down, no matter how explosive the documents are.
While I surely hope that the lid gets blown off, I am no longer certain that it will. Trump will have to get seriously involved.
Probably try to use that act as a sign of instability, if not high crimes and misdemeanors. White being black, and black, white, you know.
The deep state crooks will be charged just before the 2018 elections.
He can't declassify willy nilly. Although classifications can't be used to cover up a crime, the resistors in the deep state have not been charged with a crime (yet). There's a bit of a chicken and egg problem, but he can get some classifications reviewed by some authority (e.g. some IG) to make sure there are no legitimately classified sources and methods being revealed.
Just because we all realize Halper is a spy, doesn't mean that Halper can be revealed without some sort of review first.
I hope it does happen, but even if it does, the left will still hold their position. Its not like we don't already know there was no Russia collusion, and that Obama spied illegally.
Not good enuff, it needs to be YUGE!!!
..... I expect that part of the stall will be to first release the redacted version and claim "National Security Reasons" to not fulfill the Presidents full request. It will then take many months of stalling to get them to fulfill the Presidents full request.
..... It's what they do .... And they do it well ....
Being in sales, that has long guided me and I have never gotten in trouble for getting an order.
No, release is for unredacted documents, will be huge!///
How can you be so sure? Sure us news junkies know there
wasn’t Russian collusion. We’ve known it for months. We know that the other side is more involved in collusion. We’ve known for months the FISA process was illegally used. And its virtually been ignored by the mainstream press. They’ll likewise ignore the declassified documents. Fox will cover it for a day or two maybe. If its covered at all it will be spun as Trump interfering with Mueller and obstructing justice or some similar foolishness. Until we have a Senate or and Attorney General with balls I don’t see anything changing.
Not sure why it would take a week to release documents. Trump is POTUS
“But, but, won’t this be declared “obstruction of justice”?”
Of course it will. We use to call it truth.
Will provide a justification for Trump to release his EO that will declassify the 20 pages of redacted document.
The op-ed writer will turn out to be a national security risk, mole placed in WH, to cause problems, even problems relating to national security.
When that comes out then the EO is getting released.
Documents released will show spying on Trump originated and was coordinated from Obama WH!
Down they go, including some in MSM!
Follow this up with unredacted version of the Cox Report
No offense to the President or anyone else, but it’s better to make the announcement after the deed is done. Release everything, then tell us about it after dinner.
Release everything and make NO announcement.
When questioned by the media, the response should be...
I’m just trying to be “Transparent”, you have a problem
with that?
Hope you’re right.
Maybe. Nothing comes easily in this saga. I suspect that Marxist race pimp obammy is still the wizard behind the curtain and intends to campaign to gain control of the house for the democrappers. He wants to shut down any further pursuit of the truth with a democrapper majority.
And then the FISA warrant applications.
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