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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 08:49 AM Apr 2018

Jill Stein Defies Senate Intelligence Document Request, Calling It "Overbroad"

Source: The Intercept




Zaid Jilani
April 26 2018, 6:44 a.m.

THE JILL STEIN campaign is refusing to comply fully with a Senate intelligence committee request for documents and other correspondence, made as part of the committee’s probe into Russian activities in the 2016 election, according to a letter to be delivered Thursday to the panel by an attorney for the campaign.

The Green Party campaign will agree to turn over some documents, but raised constitutional objections to the breadth of the inquiry, which was first made in November 2017, arguing that elements of it infringe on basic political rights enshrined in the First Amendment.

In the letter responding to committee chair Richard Burr, R-N.C., and ranking member Mark Warner, D-Va., Stein’s campaign has now said it will refuse some of the requests, calling them “so overbroad in reach as to demand constitutionally protected materials.”

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, of the Washington-based Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, authored the letter and responded to each of the six requests from the committee, saying the campaign would comply with some and not others.

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/26/russia-jill-stein-senate-intelligence/

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Jill Stein Defies Senate Intelligence Document Request, Calling It "Overbroad" (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
What are they afraid of? Green Greenie Apr 2018 #1
stein is probably as complicit as trump in working with russians beachbum bob Apr 2018 #2
Absolutely! FarPoint Apr 2018 #4
Ya think? workinclasszero Apr 2018 #15
Probably what they were formed for. To steer elections from the Dems. shraby Apr 2018 #3
Lock. Her. Up. RandySF Apr 2018 #5
what good has this party accomplished? OhNo-Really Apr 2018 #6
Absolutely nothing. liberalhistorian Apr 2018 #12
Green Party: Getting Republicans Elected Every November DinahMoeHum Apr 2018 #13
Yep, that liberalhistorian Apr 2018 #14
Their ONLY reason workinclasszero Apr 2018 #16
Their Goal is to help Republicans win so they have been pretty successful JI7 Apr 2018 #19
If they really wanted to build crazycatlady Apr 2018 #20
Many reasons to be suspicious of the Stein campaign, but ... bigbrother05 Apr 2018 #7
I always wondered who paid for those expensive ads on tv kimbutgar Apr 2018 #8
a trumpenfuhrer helper heaven05 Apr 2018 #9
Not a good look for Stein or the Greens. Good. We need to get to the bottom of her/their role KPN Apr 2018 #10
DITTO! BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #18
Ruh Roh JohnnyRingo Apr 2018 #11
All for a thorough investigation. tomp Apr 2018 #17

Green Greenie

(4 posts)
1. What are they afraid of?
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 09:06 AM
Apr 2018

A party that represents itself as ideologically pure should be completely transparent - to the Senate and to us average citizens. Why would Jill Stein go to great expense to go to a party in Russia celebrating a propaganda organ of one of the most repressive, oligarchic, authoritarian right-wing regimes on Earth. A party that has unwittingly (?) given us George Bush and Donald Trump.

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
6. what good has this party accomplished?
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 09:24 AM
Apr 2018

The pic of Jill at same table with Flynn in Russia is enough evidence for me. Shameful

liberalhistorian

(20,818 posts)
12. Absolutely nothing.
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 11:42 AM
Apr 2018

No good at all. The only thing they've EVER done is help elect republicans. And maybe that's been the whole point all along

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
20. If they really wanted to build
Fri Apr 27, 2018, 08:23 AM
Apr 2018

They'd run candidates for local office and state leg races. They don't.

They don't even do what other minor lefty parties (WFP, WEP) in NY do and cross endorse Democrats.

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)
7. Many reasons to be suspicious of the Stein campaign, but ...
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 09:27 AM
Apr 2018

will wait to hear what happens, maybe in the courts.

Requests for info usually are as broad as possible to be sure they don't overlook possible threads of info and those being looked at will always cry foul and overreach.

What makes it clear is which items end up in court and the findings.

Even if there is guilt, they have Constitutional protections.

kimbutgar

(21,168 posts)
8. I always wondered who paid for those expensive ads on tv
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 10:37 AM
Apr 2018

Never saw a fundraising appeal from any green groups. She was a Russian asset spoiler.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
9. a trumpenfuhrer helper
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 10:53 AM
Apr 2018

no surprise at reluctance to cooperate. I so wish all this will blowup into triple Watergate...

KPN

(15,646 posts)
10. Not a good look for Stein or the Greens. Good. We need to get to the bottom of her/their role
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 11:27 AM
Apr 2018

in Russian influence. Hope there's some sort of nexus that allows Mueller is look into this.

JohnnyRingo

(18,636 posts)
11. Ruh Roh
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 11:28 AM
Apr 2018

She could have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddling investigations.

Actually, I don't know what she's hiding, but It's good that someone is still looking into all facets of the dirty election.

 

tomp

(9,512 posts)
17. All for a thorough investigation.
Thu Apr 26, 2018, 02:37 PM
Apr 2018

Just remember: this is all political, and Richard Burr is not our friend.

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