45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 6)
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Sounds like bribrary from the DOJ doesn't it
The Justice Department on Tuesday said it would provide the House Intelligence Committee with some materials related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as long as the panel dropped its threat to pursue an “enforcement action” against Attorney General William Barr.
The department made the offer in a three-page letter to Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) one day before the committee is slated to vote on what he has described as an “enforcement action” against Barr. Schiff has not said what shape the action would take.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/44483...
The Justice Department on Tuesday said it would provide the House Intelligence Committee with some materials related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as long as the panel dropped its threat to pursue an “enforcement action” against Attorney General William Barr.
The department made the offer in a three-page letter to Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) one day before the committee is slated to vote on what he has described as an “enforcement action” against Barr. Schiff has not said what shape the action would take.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/44483...
Gameface said:
I'd like to see Hicks get what's coming to her.
Gatekeeper to trumps emails, he never read them, had to have her read them then he dictated what he wanted in reply and Hicks put it into English. Famously said on Air Force 1 that she could delete emails to protect trump.Yup, another that walked away and got a well paying job to ensure her silence.
A confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post.
The memo contradicts the Trump administration’s justification for denying lawmakers’ request for President Trump’s tax returns, exposing fissures in the executive branch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/co...
According to the IRS memo, which has not been previously reported, the disclosure of tax returns to the committee 'is mandatory, requiring the Secretary to disclose returns, and return information, requested by the tax-writing Chairs.'
The 10-page document says the law 'does not allow the Secretary to exercise discretion in disclosing the information provided the statutory conditions are met' and directly rejects the reason that Mnuchin has cited for witholding the information.
The memo contradicts the Trump administration’s justification for denying lawmakers’ request for President Trump’s tax returns, exposing fissures in the executive branch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/co...
According to the IRS memo, which has not been previously reported, the disclosure of tax returns to the committee 'is mandatory, requiring the Secretary to disclose returns, and return information, requested by the tax-writing Chairs.'
The 10-page document says the law 'does not allow the Secretary to exercise discretion in disclosing the information provided the statutory conditions are met' and directly rejects the reason that Mnuchin has cited for witholding the information.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's search warrants in his investigation of Michael Cohen will be made public with redactions today.
The five warrants in total encompass the searches the special counsel conducted between July and November 2017 of Cohen's emails and other content related to his email accounts, the order said.
Chief Judge Beryl Howell issued the order in response to a lawsuit by CNN and other media outlets seeking the release of the court records.
There will be some redactions to these documents when the Justice Department makes them public, similar to the redactions made to Cohen search warrants in New York federal court. The redactions will keep secret ongoing investigation details and the identities of people who haven't been charged.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/judge-...
The five warrants in total encompass the searches the special counsel conducted between July and November 2017 of Cohen's emails and other content related to his email accounts, the order said.
Chief Judge Beryl Howell issued the order in response to a lawsuit by CNN and other media outlets seeking the release of the court records.
There will be some redactions to these documents when the Justice Department makes them public, similar to the redactions made to Cohen search warrants in New York federal court. The redactions will keep secret ongoing investigation details and the identities of people who haven't been charged.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/judge-...
Byker28i said:
The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson (Don McGahn’s former chief of staff) for testimony & documents related to the committee’s probe into obstruction of justice and public corruption by Trump and his associates
"The committee issued the subpoenas to Hicks and Donaldson as part of their sweeping investigation into possible obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power".So the HJC is now going beyond oversight and is now conducting "investigations". Why don't they just get Mueller in front of the committee and ask him....but maybe they don't want to hear what he has to say.
Byker28i said:
The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson (Don McGahn’s former chief of staff) for testimony & documents related to the committee’s probe into obstruction of justice and public corruption by Trump and his associates
More on this. Whilst McGahn looks like he can be threatened by trump, his assistant was witnessing all the same obstruction crimes that McGahn was witnessing. I doubt trump thought about her and doesn't have any leverage like he does over others?Monty Python said:
Byker28i said:
The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson (Don McGahn’s former chief of staff) for testimony & documents related to the committee’s probe into obstruction of justice and public corruption by Trump and his associates
"The committee issued the subpoenas to Hicks and Donaldson as part of their sweeping investigation into possible obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power".So the HJC is now going beyond oversight and is now conducting "investigations". Why don't they just get Mueller in front of the committee and ask him....but maybe they don't want to hear what he has to say.
McGahn works for Jones Day.
Jones Day’s clients include
Alfa Bank, the Russian government-controlled bank that set up a suspicious private server link to Trump Tower during the election,
Oleg Deripaska, the U.S. sanctioned aluminum oligarch who has been in bed with Mitch McConnell in order to build a huge aluminum plant in Kentucky and had sanctions releived,
Victor Vekselberg, the U.S. sanctioned buddy of Michael Cohen
Alexander Maskevich, a mining oligarch
On top of that we have questions such as
Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s enormous $150,000 credit card debt that was paid off shortly before he was nominated/appointed to the Supreme Court
Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy retired suspiciously to make a spot for a Trump appointee, when Kennedy’s son seems to have been one of the bankers Trump dealt with at Deutsche Bank on all those money laundering loans.
So many questions
Jones Day’s clients include
Alfa Bank, the Russian government-controlled bank that set up a suspicious private server link to Trump Tower during the election,
Oleg Deripaska, the U.S. sanctioned aluminum oligarch who has been in bed with Mitch McConnell in order to build a huge aluminum plant in Kentucky and had sanctions releived,
Victor Vekselberg, the U.S. sanctioned buddy of Michael Cohen
Alexander Maskevich, a mining oligarch
On top of that we have questions such as
Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s enormous $150,000 credit card debt that was paid off shortly before he was nominated/appointed to the Supreme Court
Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy retired suspiciously to make a spot for a Trump appointee, when Kennedy’s son seems to have been one of the bankers Trump dealt with at Deutsche Bank on all those money laundering loans.
So many questions
The New York State Assembly have passed the legislation plugging the "double-jeopardy loophole" by a margin of 90-52, sending the bill to the governor's office for Cuomo's signature. Specifically designed to stop trumps pardons
https://www.courthousenews.com/pardon-loophole-get...
In other NY court news, the bill that would authorise sharing Trump's tax returns to House committees goes to the NY Assembly floor tomorrow afternoon--as it happens, at the same time as a federal court hearing in Trump v. Deutsche.
https://www.courthousenews.com/pardon-loophole-get...
In other NY court news, the bill that would authorise sharing Trump's tax returns to House committees goes to the NY Assembly floor tomorrow afternoon--as it happens, at the same time as a federal court hearing in Trump v. Deutsche.
Unlike McGahn, Tillerson testified yesterday
Former secretary of state Rex Tillerson spoke with the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs committee on Tuesday in a lengthy session that, an aide said, touched on his time working in the Trump administration, the frictions he had with the president’s son-in-law, and efforts to tackle issues like Russian interference in the 2016 election.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rex-tillerson-secret...
No love lost here: Tillerson told the committee that the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at times impeded his ability to communicate effectively and introduce to President Trump policy proposals developed by State Department experts on major foreign affairs matters across the globe, not just in the Middle East
Former secretary of state Rex Tillerson spoke with the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs committee on Tuesday in a lengthy session that, an aide said, touched on his time working in the Trump administration, the frictions he had with the president’s son-in-law, and efforts to tackle issues like Russian interference in the 2016 election.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rex-tillerson-secret...
No love lost here: Tillerson told the committee that the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at times impeded his ability to communicate effectively and introduce to President Trump policy proposals developed by State Department experts on major foreign affairs matters across the globe, not just in the Middle East
minimoog said:
Monty Python said:
So the HJC is now going beyond oversight and is now conducting "investigations".
He wants to imply that the HJC isn't supposed to investigate wrongdoing. But he also wants to use the ironic quotation marks to imply that what the HJC is doing isn't a proper investigation.MP, old bean, you're in such a tizzy, you've contradicted yourself. Try again.
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