[PJ] Members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter Thursday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling for a second special counsel to be appointed to address the possible misconduct of former FBI Director James Comey. The letter also asked for an investigation into other matters not covered by the scope of the current special counsel's investigation into Russia's attempts to influence last year's presidential election.
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About time Congress did something about the previous deep state cancer that is still gnawing away. Let's see what AG Sessions and Trump do at this point.
[The Hill] The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing top political aides of President Obama of making hundreds of requests during the 2016 presidential race to unmask the names of Americans in intelligence reports, including Trump transition officials.
Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, said the requests were made without specific justifications on why the information was needed.
"We have found evidence that current and former government officials had easy access to U.S. person information and that it is possible that they used this information to achieve partisan political purposes, including the selective, anonymous leaking of such information," Nunes wrote in the letter to Coats.
The letter was provided to The Hill from a source in the intelligence community.
In March, Nunes disclosed that he had seen data suggesting Trump campaign and transition officials were having their names unmasked by departing officials in the Obama White House.
National Security Adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan have acknowledged making such requests though they insisted the requests were for legitimate work reasons.
Nunes recused himself from his committee’s work on its investigation over Russia’s meddling in the 2016 campaign after a controversy over his charges about Obama-era unmasking.
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National Security Adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan have acknowledged making such requests though they insisted the requests were for legitimate work reasons.
And there you have it! If Rice and Brennan cannot be believed, who else is there ?
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Samantha Power allegedly asked for hundreds...with no explicable need
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Are we going to have a real investigation of criminality and dump the deep-state Mueller-stacked-deck-kangaroo-court-lynching regarding phony investigation of Trump associates and Russians. Hint: look at his general election opponent (ahem HRC) and all her links (w sarc).
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Agree with Pappy- The tactic of "unmasking" by Obama goes all the way back to his first Senate run involving Jack Ryan:
" His 2004 campaign for the Senate, against Barack Obama, received widespread media attention for the disclosure of sealed custody documents stemming from his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. The unsealing of those documents, detailing allegations that Ryan had pressured his wife to perform sexual acts in public, led to Ryan's withdrawal from the campaign."
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For some reason the scene in Enemy at the Gates comes to mind where Khrushchev says he has to report to the Boss and puts a pistol on the table, mentioning that he might like to avoid the red tape.
[NBC-2] NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Attorneys for Sarah Palin want to get the private communications of more than 20 journalists at the New York Times as part of the former Republican vice presidential nominee's defamation lawsuit against the newspaper.
Documents filed Wednesday in a New York federal court detailed the efforts by Palin's legal team to obtain the internal communications of the Times staffers.
Palin sued the New York Times last month over an editorial that inaccurately accused her of "political incitement" prior to the 2011 shooting that killed six people and left former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords severely wounded. She is seeking at least $75,000 in damages.
Palin's lawyers are seeking all emails and text messages concerning her dating back to January 8, 2011, the day of the shooting. The subpoenas target 23 journalists at the Times [this is obvious overreach and a court will almost certainly cut this request but if it leaves anything substantial, it will be embarrassing and probably costly to the NYtimes]
, a list that includes editorial page editor James Bennet and columnists such as Charles Blow and Ross Douthat.
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this is obvious overreach and a court will almost certainly cut this request but if it leaves anything substantial, it will be embarrassing and probably costly to the NYtimes
Overreach was when Democrat party apparatchiks overwhelmed the small staff of the State of Alaska with FOIA requests while Palin was governor to the point where they couldn't get anything else done. Turnabout is fair play.
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They hate her. They always have. I think $75,000 is a paltry sum. She should sue for $75 million.
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Raj, $75,000 is the magic minimum number you have to ask for to qualify for this type of federal jurisdiction. The complaint says that she is entitled to an amount far in excess of $75,000.
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The discovery process itself will be interesting.
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Authoritarian leaning folks tend to keep detailed records of their malfeasance (I assume because they don't think they are doing anything wrong). I'm sure something will turn up.
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[PJ] Members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter Thursday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling for a second special counsel to be appointed to address the possible misconduct of former FBI Director James Comey. The letter also asked for an investigation into other matters not covered by the scope of the current special counsel's investigation into Russia's attempts to influence last year's presidential election.
[The Hill] The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing top political aides of President Obama of making hundreds of requests during the 2016 presidential race to unmask the names of Americans in intelligence reports, including Trump transition officials.
