With the recently made public appointment of John Durham as a special counsel, does that appointment mean President Trump is unable to declassify documents in the same way the Robert Mueller special counsel blocked declassification? The likely answer is yes.
However, with that in mind here is a reminder of one process that could possibly be attempted. This approach would have to take place very quickly.
REPOST by Request: Understanding the ordinary process of declassifying documents is a request and authorization to the executive officers and stakeholders of classified information; and understanding the current authorization is not ordinary because the intelligence community stakeholders are adverse to the interests of the office of the president; here is a process to cut through the chaff and countermeasures.
The background here is that any unilateral declassification request, demand or authorization by President Trump puts him opposition to a variety of corrupt interests.
As a direct result the executive office of the president will be facing legal action, likely from unified democrats and republicans in the legislative branch. With that accepted, here is the most strategic approach.
In anticipation of litigation:
President Trump informs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, that he wishes to have a full intelligence briefing on the following documents (more may be added), all documents are to be presented without a single redaction:
- All versions of the Carter Page FISA applications (DOJ) (FBI) (ODNI).
- All of the Bruce Ohr 302’s filled out by the FBI. (FBI) (ODNI)
- All of Bruce Ohr’s emails (FBI) (DOJ) (CIA) (ODNI)
- All relevant documents pertaining to the supportive material within the FISA application. (FBI) (DOJ-NSD ) (DoS) (CIA) (DNI) (NSA) (ODNI);
- All supportive documents and material provided by Bruce Ohr to the FBI. (FBI)
- All intelligence documents that were presented to the Gang of Eight in 2016 that pertain to the FISA application used against U.S. person Carter Page; including all intelligence documents that may not have been presented to the FISA Court. (CIA) (FBI) (DOJ) (ODNI) (DoS) (NSA)
- All unredacted text messages and email content between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok on all devices. (FBI) (DOJ) (DOJ-NSD) (ODNI)
- All unredacted text messages and email content between Lisa Page and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
- All communication between former CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey that started Operation Crossfire Hurricane in July 2016. (CIA) (FBI) (ODNI)
- The full and unredacted April 2017 FISA court 99-page opinion written by Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer outlining the compliance audit conducted by the NSA in 2016. (NSA) (ODNI) (DOJ) (FBI) (DOJ-NSD)
- Any and all documents that may pertain to CIA and FBI activity against the incoming Trump administration.
- Any and all investigative documents currently controlled by US Attorney John Durham as a result of his two year investigation.
- Anything else that would be of value to the American people.
The President selects a date for this briefing and through direct orders to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, informs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, to advise and coordinate with all executive branch lead intelligence officials, who were/are stakeholders in the compartmented intelligence products as described above, of their request be present for the briefing.
The White House counsel’s office is not to be informed of the intent or purpose of the meeting; however the Presidents’ White House counsel is requested to attend. Further, all of the compartmented intelligence is to be collectively assembled by the ODNI (Ratcliffe) into one volume of a singular Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB). There are to be eighteen printed copies of the PDB assembled and secured for the briefing, post haste.
Additionally, the office of the president personally informs the ODNI (Ratcliffe) of the executives’ request to invite for the briefing each member of the legislative branch Intelligence Community oversight known as the Gang-of-Eight.
Immediately after the briefing by the executive level (cabinet) department officials, while remaining in a closed and classified session, the full and comprehensive content of this collective intelligence product will be discussed with the full assembly of the U.S. Legislative Branch Intelligence Oversight known as the Gang of Eight.
Therefore, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien is instructed to coordinate with the ODNI (Ratcliffe) for the attendance of the Gang of Eight: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff, HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, SSCI Chairman Richard Burr and SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner. [Topic “TBD”]
In order to facilitate the briefing. Each member of the participating group will be provided with one full printed copy of the material assembled by the ODNI during the briefing.
[Each of the participants carries the prerequisite clearances, legal and constitutional authority to engage with the classified document according to their position and status. Only the executive can assemble the product for Go8 review and feedback]
At the conclusion of the briefing; and after hearing from, and engagement with, each of the participating members of the executive intelligence offices and duly authorized legislative oversight representatives; and after listening to their opinion as to the subject material discussed; the president announces to the fully assembled leadership of both the Executive branch (cabinet) and Legislative branch (Go8), it is his opinion the National Interests of the United States can best be served with the American people having a full, transparent and honest review of the material assembled and discussed.
The President, no-one else, only the President, then collects the printed portfolios as they were distributed to the participants, exits the briefing, and walks directly into the James Brady press briefing room within the White House; handing each of the awaiting twelve members of the national media a copy of the briefing material to be published on behalf of the American people.
At exactly the same time as President Trump enters the briefing room, one copy of the assembled portfolio is hand delivered, by President Trump only, to White House communications director Alyssa Farah with instructions to scan and release the content to the public through the White House website.
Done.
The American people are aware…
Litigation begins.
- References and Resources:
- The Declassification Conundrum.
- Understanding the Ramifications of President Trump as a target.
- Understanding how intelligence is compartmented.
- The Declassification Counter-Punch, Must Be Independent
… “How does the office of a U.S. president; and more importantly the republic itself; survive a coordinated coup effort involving all three branches of government; while simultaneously those in charge of exposing the corruption fear the scale is too damaging for them to reveal?”…
It survives through the strength of the leader of the Republic to reveal it.
That’s our President. Super smart and super strategic.
I am disgusted with all the backstabbers around our POTU
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May God keep him
God can save Trump
I don’t see how the special council status changes anything about the “ongoing investigation” argument, which could be made anyway.
Excellent point.
I thought he already ordered all these declassified. Why are these mach8nations needed?
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You know….when I try to explain all this to those whose heads are in the sand, they say “No WAY this stuff is true – there can’t be THAT many people involved in this coup!” And they’re not entirely nuts to think that – this is all so hard to mentally digest. It truly seems that Trump stands alone amid every part of our government. Just him, Sydney Powell, Lin Wood, Rudy Guiliani, and Jenna Ellis. He can “de-classify” everything but again….WHO will disseminate this information? MSM won’t, FBI and CIA won’t do a damn thing about it, judges and courts won’t do a damn thing. Even if he gets SCOTUS to rule for him and he serves another 4 years – what happens then? What if he does start the Tribunals? What does all this look like to the American people? He LOOKS like a tyrant who took over and is now executing or locking up everyone who went against him. With everyone in government against him, he doesn’t have enough power (setting aside his Executive privilege) to accomplish much. Sorry to seem like such a whiner, but I’m not sure I see a good outcome with all this. (There….I’ve had my one mental breakdown!) Back to the FIGHT!
SAL,
I think we all are in similar patterns of realization…but must fight on. Scary. WE THE PEOPLE no longer run our government and haven’t for decades.
We have to fight on in spite of the impression created by the media that we cannot succeed. At one point there will be an opening and we will take advantage. It is normal to be depressed at this stage of the game. We have at least 50% of the populace with us, but if we quit we will never be able to take advantage of changing circumstances.
If there ever was a time in our lifetimes, or excepting the call for troops after Pearl Harbor, for the people of this country to peaceably stand up, march to D.C. and to every state capital, this is the time. All who voted for DJT in 2020 can hold up a sign saying “I voted for Trump”, fill the D.C. Mall and skirts of the Capital, and show the bastards that We are the Government, not them
Go to the Richardson post, and read the article about Treason and WHO can prosecute it. VERY interesting, and some of the steps have been taken already.
So what… They already call him a “tyrant” & worse. We either have “Law & Order” with a Justice System that prosecutes these criminals across the board, or we don’t. Don’t– & the BS only continues!
How do you defeat a bully? By physical confrontation that likely ends with you knocking their arse out. How do you defeat an enemy in War? Kill or be killed.
Why? B/c you cannot rationalize with an irrational mind. These people are freaks of nature who are CRAZY! They’re consumed with power, greed, & ENVY. They exist in their own misery & self-hatred, so feel an insatiable need to CONTROL others– simply b/c misery loves company.
Our HOPE and our ACTION is to expose the corruption to as many people as possible. We need to wake people up. We NEED to KEEP FIGHTING! We need to build the Army Of The Awakened!
In addition to exposing the corruption, we need to be on the phone and email DAILY to our elected officials letting them know that we know of the corruption and that we are watching. Let them know we are DEMANDING action to right the wrongs. THAT is the action we can take to turn the tide TODAY.
It is easy to despair, but we need to remember that this is our only chance. If we fail, our failure will stand for generations. Therefore, WE CANNOT FAIL! We MUST STAND STRONG NOW! We still have our “Pitchforks and Torches” option ready, but nobody wins that option.
Only when a significant majority of Americans (~60%-70%) see the blatant corruption that abounds in the US Gov’t, can our beloved POTUSVSG have the mandate to act forcefully and without fear of reprisal FROM THE PEOPLE.
How can the coup be so widespread?
First, all the 3 letter agencies are part of it. Easy. They’ve always been part of the coup.
The Media and Internet are “owned” by the 3 letter agencies. Barking seals know where the fish comes from.
The Dem party is packed with criminals of every sort that have rigged voting machines and falsified documents. And certain Republicans are beneficiaries.
And “Wink-wink, nod-nod, say no more, say no more” glues them all together when signals are sent out.
China Joe Steal got 10 million more votes than Obama? Yeah, sure, pal.
Don’t forget to add the mush mouth high ranking REPUBLICAN Senators who love their power, prestige and graft more than they love America.
Well put. That has been the feeling nagging me as well. But you articulated those thoughts quite well.
I would add a few others in D.C. who I believe to be working hard for President Trump, but who are obstructed in their work. In particular, I think of Devin Nunes. There are other members of Congress (Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmertz to name three) who know exactly what is going on. And I truly believe that John Ratcliffe is aligned with the President. But there is just so much obstruction in D.C. that the efforts of the few may not be enough.
Oh how I missed you!
The President had to know this happened. If ODNI has not already been given o4ders I do not think this occurs.
I think we are more likely to experience a true government shutdown for this reason and others.
Been debating on another board with Republicans the last few days while CTH was getting re-settled. About half of them are acting like battered wives, running back to their abuser already because they’ve got nowhere else to go. A small number have bought the ‘he’s got no evidence because the courts turned him down’ line. A larger number have bought the ‘fraud was committed but it can’t be proven’ line.
It doesn’t matter how many videos or documents you link. Maranatha.
I think I know the site you are talking about.
I agree with your analysis.
“A larger number have bought the ‘fraud was committed but it can’t be proven’ line.”
I think this is where I’ve landed. The results stink way too much for there not to have been fraud. Most likely it was in MI, WI, PA, and GA. Possibly NV & AZ as well. However, courts, even SCOTUS, are going to be EXTREMELY reluctant to do something so drastic as to invalidate an election result absent OVERWHELMING evidence of not just fraud, but fraud so devastating in its scope that it changed the election result. Especially when the state officials in those states are publicly proclaiming, “All is well, nothing to see here.” The public framing of the story is easy then; Trump’s being a sore loser and won’t accept the result.
Statistical anomalies are an indicator of fraud, but without the hard evidence to back it up – the who, the when, the where, the how – all you have is the anomaly. Insufficient evidence of actual fraud upon which a court can provide relief.
The only real hope is for the state legislatures to intervene, but, again, they are mostly saying, “All is well, nothing to see here.” You have a handful of state (R) saying otherwise, but not nearly enough; nowhere near the critical mass needed to send different presidential electors to the Electoral College.
And once Biden gets his 270 in the EC, it’s over. Challenging the results in Congress is a near impossible task that would effectively require (D) buy-in, and of course they will never do so.
Biden’s going to get sworn in on Jan. 20. We’ll likely never know what really happened on Election Night. How those vertical lines cropped up in the vote counts exactly where & by how much Biden needed them to win. Trump will be persecuted and perhaps even prosecuted once out of office.
It sucks. I hate it. But there’s probably no stopping it now.
Also many paid trolls, meant to discourage.
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Posting is a bit delayed.
Sorry for putting this here. I got on this thread thru Rantingly.
My CTH is the new version, but all I’m getting on there is Pres Thread from the 30th
With 12 comments on it. Are any of you having those issues?
Well, I feel, regardless of whether there is a SC or not…Trump should release them anyway. What will they do? Seriously…they haven’t held a politician accountable in decades…heck they sat on Hunter’s lap top for over year, tried to frame an incoming President, and more…
Just release them anyway…and do what Dem Governors and Mayors all over the country keep doing when they don’t follow their own edicts—-
Just say “Ooopsy, my bad. Sorry. I”m so sorry. Thank you”
Agreed.
Everything seems to be working well.
Barr is swamp, there is not one clean person in DC besides Donald Trump.
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Stop typing testing….just post a comment, it does the same thing and doesn’t clog up the board.
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It’s “Hear, Hear”… 🙂
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Harumph, harumph
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Excuse me but not everyone is having a smooth sail to commenting…I cannot reply to you or at least I haven’t been able but it seems all my replies are comments. It also takes a few minutes for anything to show up anywhere…. I have no idea where this comment will show up. So please be kind for awhile…everyone is not able to comment as easily as apparently you are.
LIKE!
Now we know why “Bagpipes” Barr and Gina Haspal were meeting with McConnell a day or two after the fraudulent election…..
Perhaps you are right, but if Trump did not already know what they were meeting with McConnell about, why couldn’t Trump just directly ask each of them what they were meeting with him about? I certainly would if I were in Trump’s shoes. They are both executive branch officials working for Trump and he has the authority to order them to tell him what they were doing. If I were Trump and they refused to tell me when I asked, I would fire them on the spot since I would have lost confidence in them with their refusal.
It’s looking more and more like this is true. The entire swamp makes me wanna vomit.
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We’ll see what happens!
I hope Trump and John Ratcliffe are reading this.
Do it!
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Didn’t President Trump say back when that he delegated the declass to AG Barr?
Why moderatation?
Because the admins are working hard to release hundreds of new people from pending.
So, my original comment was thrown out?? Why was that?
Thank you. I know you ladies and gentleman are working very hard for us.
I haven’t been able to figure out how to logon without posting a comment.
I just don’t get the hooha about declassification.
We know the names of the crooks.
Details of their crimes aren’t going to change anyone’s mind,
whether the view is they are traitors or heroes.
Burn it down. What are they going today? If it is as bad as we believe he will be such a hero they will look like obstructionists going after him.
It has to be done. If he doesn’t do this they will never stop trying to destroy him, and his kids. His enemies are ruthless vicious criminal thugs.
John Durham’s designation as “Special Counsel” is meaningless/moot when considering the declassification of those documents by President Trump BECAUSE…
If President Trump intended to declassify them, he would have already done so. It simply does not appear to be one of his priorities.
As far as Durham goes, I expect NOTHING GOOD to result from anything he investigates. He’s just another distraction/diversion deployed like a jet fighter’s chaff countermeasure. I’m only curious about how long he will be around after Jan 20, 2021.
My guess? He will disappear like the writing on Harry Potter’s Marauder’s Map… MISCHIEF MANAGED
It seems to me that a good lawyer could make a case that declassifying does not obstruct justice. The bad guys already know what they did. The only people who don’t know are the citizens that the DOJ works for.
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The righteous must prevail
I remember when Sundance first suggested this and I thought it was terrific. Is it possible that President Trump has done his best to utilize the more traditional avenues and held this in reserve? Keep in mind also the time and difficulty getting Ratclife in as ODNI. From my 30,000 foot vantage I cannot see what is happening on the ground but I would LOVE accountability to be imposed on the Swamp.
The lack of enforcement action on the 2016 coup and the current election fraud requires an all out release of documents. The media will fail to cover and will block it but the information has to be revealed so that some proportion of the American populace can be educated and perhaps inform others.
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Defending the constitution is a duty, sworn to by all public officials and all good patriots should feel comfort in doing same legally. I do at every possible turn and would do so in defense of a leader who takes it upon himself to defend this great nation against such insurrection. Be prepared.
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Agree.
As usual Sundance has a well constructed plan. Fellow patriots it’s time..Let’s Roll!
We can only hope this advice is taken and used
The swamp has exposed it’s self Now it needs to be defined by it’s actions
Its time for me to acknowledge that China has declared war on us and I didn’t know it.
I see its tentacles showing up in various places. This has been by subterfuge rather than the overt belt and road program, which was exposed as being ready to deploy to democrat run cities.
Americans colluding with them are delusional if they believe they will retain their position of power and not be replaced by a chinese official.
Barr is hoping to run out the clock. That’s been the goal all along – run out the clock, then all these nasty investigations get swept under the rug never to be heard about again. By the way, what happened to Anthony Weiner’s and Hunter Biden’s laptops?
According to the Constitution the President IS the executive branch of government.
“The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America”.
The US Constitution makes the POTUS the chief law enforcement officer of the US. “He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
Any law that puts the AG in control of executive authority over the president is unconstitutional. The office of attorney general was not even created by the Constitution. It was created by the Judiciary Act shortly after ratification and the duties of the AG were to give legal advice to the President and his Cabinet and to try cases involving the United States before the Supreme Court. The AG cannot constitutionally control what classified information the President declassifies nor can any unconstitutionally created special counsel.
The DOJ was not created until 1870 and the FBI was not created until the 20th century. They do not have any authority over the President. He has authority over them.
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I think I’m going to clean and oil my pitchforks. And buy rope, lots of rope.
To quote a famous American politician, “At this point, what difference does it make?”
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Release the Kraken……!
I believe the appointment of this new SC is for nefarious purposes. We all know the swamp wants to legally prosecute Pres. Trump after he leaves office so as to prevent another MAGA candidate from taking his place. It would not be a good look for Biden or Schiff or new A.G. to prosecute Trump after he leaves office. But a S.C. can go after Trump all day long (we know how this book ends) and would give Biden and democrats full immunity to claim innocence so Republicans can’t retaliate.
***Remember, they not only want to win the election, but the swamp wants to salt the MAGA fields so it does not happen again.
Still putting unnecessary restraints on the President I see…
In the name of National Security Trump and declassify anything he wants and tell the Deep State to Sue Me. As the Democrats have demonstrated, rules are for fools and were way past the time for following the rules.
RELEASE THE KRAKEN
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Best to include OAN or even Alex Jones at this point in the 12 natl media. Look for threats of lawsuits against those media outlets and their willful compliance. And let’s hope everything goes well with scanning and the WH website.
More fake news. Team Trump has issued a statement slamming Barrzini:
“With all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation. We have gathered ample evidence of illegal voting in at least six states, which they have not examined. We have many witnesses swearing under oath they saw crimes being committed in connection with voter fraud.
As far as we know, not a single one has been interviewed by the DOJ. The Justice Department also hasn’t audited any voting machines or used their subpoena powers to determine the truth.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ag-barr-no-evidence-fraud-would-have-changed-election-outcome?__s=veaf5yy6ccnyqdx7vug5