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Adam Schiff Just Cut Off Barrs Efforts To Declassify Secrets
By Jason Easley at Politicus USA
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/31/adam-schiff-barr-intel.html
"SNIP......
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) made sure that Barr wont be able to declassify the nations secrets behind the backs of Congress.
Rep. Schiff wrote in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, This approach threatens national security by subverting longstanding rules and practices that obligate you and other heads of IC agencies to safeguard sources and methods and prevent the politicization of intelligence and law enforcement.
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Adam Schiffs demand carries a ton of weight. Its his committee that is responsible for oversight of the intelligence community. Rep. Schiff isnt going let William Barr declassify secret sources and methods to help Donald Trump cook up a conspiracy that they hope will save the presidents reelection campaign. The intelligence community is required by law to keep Congress informed of Barrs activities.
Trump was wrong to believe that he gave Barr unlimited power to build a deep state conspiracy that he can use to muddy the political waters in 2020. Adam Schiff is watching, and the chairman just cut Barrs efforts to work in secret off at the knees.
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)The only law. He is above any man made law. He is superior. He is sick as hell, just like his master.
Nitram
(22,890 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)I am not sure anything, other than the courts(which have been stacked by the right), can stop him.
Turbineguy
(37,370 posts)Our Allies will know that at least somebody is watching the store. When the trump cabal is gone we can go back to normalcy.
onetexan
(13,061 posts)...
dlk
(11,578 posts)Im not sure any Republican is trustworthy at this point.
LTG
(216 posts)I believe Barr could simply prepare a list, Trump orders the agencies to give him the files and Trump orders declassified whatever he pleases.
If Barr has seen the information he need only list the information and Trump need not even talk to the agencies before declassification.
former9thward
(32,082 posts)The OP is wrong.
mitch96
(13,926 posts)Don't you mean Putin?
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yuiyoshida
(41,862 posts)n/t
spanone
(135,882 posts)saving our democracy
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)will abide by the rule of law ... which they have repeatedly demonstrated that they will not.
If the GOP Senate and House were not so corrupt, an impeachment inquiry would have started long before the 2018 midterms.
watoos
(7,142 posts)More very stern letters.
certainot
(9,090 posts)democrats were laughing at fox. the same benghazi base is enabling these asshat GOP teabags and many of them actually believe limbaugh, who might have gotten a lot of this from some kremlin think tank. all this could have been avoided if the dem party had been giving talk radio the credit it deserved. for years none of the dem party staff i've talked to have any clue talk radio is a problem.
if schiff stops them they're going to howl it's a coverup. it's a lose lose situation for dems as long as we ignore talk radio
sakabatou
(42,176 posts)Thank you Adam Schiff.
RainCaster
(10,920 posts)Lochloosa
(16,069 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,425 posts)Thanks for the thread applegrove.
applegrove
(118,794 posts)former9thward
(32,082 posts)Schiff has no authority over Barr. He can ask to see what Barr has done but that is about it.
panfluteman
(2,067 posts)But I remain skeptical about its ultimate and lasting effectiveness, especially in the face of the absolute lawlessness of this president and his administration. In resisting this criminal administration, I don't believe we can rely exclusively on any one tactic, strategy or approach -we need to attack it from every possible angle simultaneously to finally subdue it, and bring the criminals to justice. What we have here is a new American civil war. Unfortunately, the battle lines are not as neatly drawn as they were for the first civil war, between north and south; you could say that the two coasts are predominantly anti-Trump, whereas everything in between is a potential battleground.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It seems to put the intel agencies on notice that Congress is watching, and maybe having to notify Schiff's committee. But if Barr declassifies certain things and Schiff knows it, I don't know if he can stop it. ??? Although knowing is better than not knowing.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Kablooie
(18,641 posts)They seem to think the law means nothing so why should this deter them?
robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)takes facts and interprets them wildly.
oasis
(49,410 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Put a stake in him.
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Stinky The Clown
(67,819 posts)Which is to say from Barr to Congress fuck you
lark
(23,158 posts)Coates is part of the rw Russian Repug clown show, he obviously doesn't care that hostile nations are making our national security decisions or he wouldn't be there. He would have done the honorable thing like Tillerson and Mattis and get the hell out of Dodge. The only reason Russia hasn't had this information before is that drumpf is too fucking lazy to get it himself. Now that he has another thoroughly corrupted ass in place, he's assigned the job to him so he can give every bit of the information to Russia and MBS and Israel - none of whom have our best interests at heart and who want to use us for their own purposes