President Donald Trump has transmitted an epic tweet-storm seemingly targeted toward all officials within the executive branch; and the intelligence apparatus writ large:
One important note of caution: there is a big difference between “authorized” and “ordered”. On May 23rd, 2019, President Trump authorized AG Bill Barr to declassify all documents and despite much optimism nothing happened {Go DEEP}. However, President Trump references that lack of inaction in the next series of tweets:
Presumably “people” who “acted very slowly” would pertain to AG Bill Barr, FBI Director Chris Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel, State Dept Secretary Mike Pompeo and former ODNI Dan Coats. President Trump asks those agencies now to “Act!!!”
President Trump also expressed the same frustration many of us feel about how these agencies and institutions have operated only to protect their own interests. He even re-tweeted the meme of Bill Barr to drive home the point.
— Lisa Matassa (@Lisa_Matassa) October 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313653514783141889
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313652020641959936
Whether anything comes of this latest, seemingly stronger, emphasis and request from President Trump is an unknown. However, again, this is an authorization for release of documents and not a direct order.
There are likely legal reasons for this approach, and no doubt there are advisors around the office of the president who would want him to take a more cautious approach.
Several people are pointing toward an announcement of a press conference by the DOJ tomorrow and attempting to connect the tweet-storm to the presser. However, my gut tells me they are two distinctly different topics; but we can keep our fingers crossed.
We will know if the two events are connected less than 12 hours from now.
Interestingly, albeit likely unrelated, the specific participants in the presser hold offices that are directly connected to the previous 2019 indictment of Julian Assange.
This is how stupid the mask wearing is…..All the FBI agents speaking keep taking off and putting on their mask to talk…..You just touched your mask multiple times… Guess what??? It’s contaminated…..There’s Zero protection from mask wearing…..
DNI John Ratcliff ” may ” release every document in his possession or that he is able to access unredacted at any time he chooses.
True or Not?
POTUS is the NCA, the National Command Authority. The decision of POTUS is final on national security, including the declassification of national security documents. If not POTUS, then who is the final authority, the Intel Community? The sum wisdom of hte media? Only in Stalin’s Russia!
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why was this stuff classified in the first place?
Other than to protect the Clinton Coup plotters?
It’s not a dumb question actually it’s a very smart one. Why do we classify ANYTHING is the real question to ask.
The government since about 1940 has been using classifications to hide the majority of it’s activity from the public with little no regard to the need of security.
Though we have laws aganst classification for the protection or obscuring crimes committed they are never enforced even when motive shows that to be the case.
A well armed, free, honest and polite society realistically has no need for it. I would push for a maximum 2 year declassification program that automatically retired everything created from the date of inception without exception. It helps keep the liars honest and accountability to take place.
Regarding the gummint classifying stuff, this book was a real eye opener for me:
Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War, by George Morgenstern, 1947.
Hopefully that book spent a good chapter or two talking about the pearl harbor committee report released in 46 and how DC and FDR administration buried the intelligence on the planned Japanese attack. We had broken their encryption and decoded their messages months before hand and the adminstration withheld the intelligence from the navy.
It’s something the history books somehow fail to mention but the report completely put the blame on DC for letting it happen.
Barr/Wray press conference is about two Syrians being held in Iraq on killing Americans.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-fbi-doj-hold-press-conference-matter-national-security-tension-mounts-over
How about a Bar and Wray press conference regarding the killing of America’s Democracy by Obama and Biden??
Why are they being arrested and brought to the US instead of being tried and executed there in Baghdad? Deep State looking for a Dog & Pony Show to distract from their other crimes against we the people?
To answer Sundance’s question in the title, “Will this make a difference?” I don’t know. Since the president has ultimate declassification authority, is there anything to stop him (other than drowning in liberal tears) from submitting screen shots of all the docs that are being improperly redacted? As the ultimate declassification authority, he can determine if something is classified or not. Since he is no longer under the cloud of Mueller, why cant he just put it all out there and dare the MSM to censor it.
Lt for Life John F. Kerry, known traitor, guilty of false and fake awards in a combat zone done by his own hands, guilty of meeting with the North Vietnamese in Paris France during armed conflict with said NVA etal.
Treason, guilty as sin, free as a bird via this same evil D C money/power cult.
A Call To Action has been given by Pres. Trump now regard to this current Clear and Present Treason.
Unfortunately this was an act and not an order… I think Trump is setting up replacement by choice for after the election. Anyone that chooses to sit on things will be axed afterwards.
That still will not fix the issue of Republicans only allowing appointments of deep state Uniparty morons back into those positions. That is where Trump needs to call out the party and walk away from it completely.
I believe in Trump’s second term, he will show no mercy to anyone at all from the Uni-party/ DS/Globalist/Marxist/etc cabals. I also think he’s going to break up DC by shipping many government agencies to various states around the country. I think big tech has a yuge Trumpian drubbing coming to them and you may be right about him walking away from the cowardly pub party.
Though I have said all of that many times just as you are saying it now. I think we’re going to be too neck deep in a civil war to get into any of that happening that way.
I state this based on the fact the deep state will keep pumping their crazy little lunatics into a color revolution type frenzy. Complete with all of the Soros / US Intelligence / Ukrainian / UN style trimmings.
My personal advise to all is grab the boot straps, gear up, kit up and be ready to hit the road in a hurry for a long drive out and personal sacrifice and selflessness for your country’s future.
Walking away from the party is a good way to guarantee getting impeached.
Trump needs to endorse primary opponents to take down the likes of Swampies McConnell & Graham.
Btw, Joe Manchin will become a Republican if Trump wins. He’s just waiting to see which way the wind blows.
I think you may misunderstand the extent of the problem. You would need to primary out 95% of the party. McConnell and Graham are just favorite names to beat on because their known. It’s like “fire Comely”, how’d that go… Oh now fire Wray! We could keep doing that for the next 50 years and get no where.
DC has to be disassembled.
And if fear is the motive for status quo, then you’ve already surrendered the battle.
Imagine for a moment being Donald Trump. He had a pretty darn good life before running for President.
But then he did. And he ran right into the Clinton complex. He beat it outright even though they made crazy accusations about Trump and collusion with Russia.
Then the FBI and DOJ And Mueller continued the Clinton lies known by Obama and Biden.
Almost 4 years later and people still make these false allegations.
Now you are still imagining to be Trump and you find yourself hospitalized with the China virus one month before your second election. Many in your circle also catch the virus? But not Dems?
And now you realize, if you die right now your legacy will be the POTUS who won POTUS with help of Russia. Not all the good you have done for American people but that you cheated with the help of Russians.
Well, Trump is healing and getting better now.
And he is NOT going to let others write his history.
The gloves are off and the truth, however awkward for FBI/DOJ/Clinton/Obama will be known.
I’m so tired of the RINO games.
There’s no evidence Barr’s is anything but a can kicker. If nothing is done before the election he arguably becomes the most despised AG in US history. Anyone can kick a can so why did he decide to come out of retirement for this ignominious purpose? To earn the total and everlasting disgust of more than half the country? To be the man who stood by and watched America descend into its current decrepit state? It’s a mystery to me what drives someone to do this.
The half the country in disgust don’t invite him to cocktail parties, he’s concerned about the 1% on the cocktail circuit. Including his pal, Mueller.
That’s quite a condemnation.
Worse than Eric Holder? Worse than Janet Reno? Worse than John Mitchell?
He will be the most hated AG if Trump loses.
Barr is not fighting for Trump or our country. Ballot harvesting, sedition, no sources prosecuted for riots. He has so much power and yet he is not using it to help Trump win, in my humble opinion.
Trump needs to replace Wray with a J Edgar Hoover style reformer that can back up Barr. Right now there are only a small group of trusted people and that makes it very difficult to accomplish anything. Put in context what our country went through for 40 plus years to break up the mafia mob and stop the intimidation, bribery, and lawlessness. The corrupt government bureaucrats are so entrenched one could draw a parallel with the Mafia in how long it will take to clean up, get people to turn on the scum, and for the President to put in place enough toughness to withstand the backlash.
Sorry to disappoint but draining the swamp could take way longer than you expect.
That really is the problem with an all-powerful, all-knowing, “benevolent” government that has been given the duty to fix everything, from schools to hurricane damage, on and on. It’s a jobs program and when people have no skills but as government “workers” they get real possessive about their livelihoods — and their pensions;-)
What do you mean back up Barr? The FBI is under the DOJ.
But if you don’t have cops protecting any investigator from intimidation or threats, they might be afraid to prosecute. During the mafia mob years there were prosecutors that were murdered.
So does the Brennan memo and handwritten notes make a case or a predicate for the FBI to investigate obama and biden (he was at that 1-5-2017 meeting in the oval office) for sedition? It’s definitely a hellofalot more than they had to start on President Trump.
Look’s Like “The Corpus Of Intelligence” And “The Broader Mosaic Of Evidence” Have Turned-Out To Be More Like A “The Rich Tapestry Of Sedition”…. I Hope These Traitor’s Swing From The Gallows…
The cold anger is beginning to boil, Sundance
I have a question for you Treepers: Is the President of the United States (Obama, in this case) permitted to levy sanctions on a foreign government for the express purpose of creating the illusion of a crime by the winning candidate in the 2016 Presidential Election specifically to launch criminal investigations with the intent of impeaching the victor?
Not something I’ve seen talked about much…but the whole Flynn/Kislyak thing gets put in a whole new light once you take a second look at the rationale for those sanctions in 2016…