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| Panetta: 'Constitutional crisis' if Trump OKs memo's release over FBI objections |
| 2018-02-02 |
| [The Hill] Former CIA Director Leon Panetta said Thursday that President Trump risks a "constitutional crisis" by pushing for the release of a GOP memo detailing alleged government surveillance abuses over objections from the FBI. In an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, Panetta said he worries that the system of checks and balances in the federal government is breaking down. "There is no question, Chuck, that it is breaking down the process as it was designed to work so that all sides would have say in the process," Panetta said on MSNBC's "MTP Daily." "We have check and balances. But you have to establish ways for those checks and balances to work," the former Obama administration official continued. "When that starts to break down, when the president says I’m going to release it no matter what the FBI says, or what the Justice Department says, then it creates what I consider a constitutional crisis," he finished. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #19 All the names in the memo and cover page: CoverPage: Devin Nunes, Egan, Donald F. McGahn II, Paul Ryan, Adam Schiff Footnote: Barack Obama, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush Page 1: Carter Page, James Comey, Sally Yates, Dana Boente, Rod Rosenstein, Andrew McCabe, FISA,FISC,FBI,DAG,DOJ,HPSCI Page 2: Carter Page, Christopher Steele, Hillary Clinton, Perkins Coie, DNC, Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Donald Trump, Clinton campaign, any party/campaign, DOJ, FBI, FISA, FISC, Yahoo News, Michael Isikoff, Mother Jones, David Corn Page 3: DOJ, FBI, FISA FISC, Steele, Bruce Ohr, General Yates, Rosenstein, Donald Trump, Ohr's wife, DNC, Clinton campaign, Fusion GPS,Bill Priestap, Comey, McCabe, Page 4: FISA, Trump, George Papadopoulos, Pete Strzok, Lisa Page, McCabe, insurance |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-02-02 16:20 |
| #18 when the REAL investigation starts, it will lead back to the White House. and when a REAL investigation of the Clinton email server starts, it will be interesting to watch. Now that it is out there that the FBI and DoJ were doing political things with both investigations and the FBI stonewalling can not be ignored, that is when you will see wholesale resignation to "spend more time with the family" |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-02 14:29 |
| #17 OK, it's been released. I personally don't see any crisis happening...can someone (Mr. Panetta perhaps) enlighten me? |
| Posted by: Tom 2018-02-02 13:40 |
| #16 The Dems are saying a lot of things. They don't really give a $hit about the Constitution; they have tried every way to destroy it. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-02 11:18 |
| #15 A constitutional crisis will likely develop if all signs point to Obama using illegal means to influence an election. Is that what Panetta is afraid of? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-02-02 10:37 |
| #14 Unelected bureaucrats attempting a coup d'etat is the constitutional crisis. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-02-02 10:33 |
| #13 The only Constitutional Crisis is of the making by the Swamp(tm). It has undermined the legitimacy of the government by its own actions. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-02-02 10:23 |
| #12 When the klingons minions say you are under heat because a grenade killed guards at the ramada and you move to the countryside and take a meeting from MB hemorrhoid erdogan stoog - once he leaves the party starts. The compound gets waxed. Please tell me you heard of Al Nusra before. Let me try something else, the leftists tipped off the leftists whom in turn tipped off the jihadists which in turn took out a kindly but American target... on 9-11. Who could have thunk it. I had responsible party claim within four hours before Hillary fuckhole blamed it on a video. And I have her e-mails here that hillary fuckhole sent 24 hours before her fake video. And then she and MF Obama stood over OUR Men and said that some dude in Florida made a video and lied to the world. Let me tell you something you fucktards: My Benghazi folder is bigger than my fist and I committed all this to memory. You, you democrat pieces of shit have no core. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-02-02 08:41 |
| #11 When was the FBI transferred to the Judicial Branch? |
| Posted by: Omimp Flusonter1547 2018-02-02 08:20 |
| #10 Accountability? That'rn Unconstitutional! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-02-02 06:56 |
| #9 Yes, the Constitution is quite clear that the President has no control over the executive branch and it's subdivisions....putz. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Ghibelline2198 2018-02-02 06:33 |
| #8 It is always interesting when violators of the constitution hide behind it when they are in trouble. The deep state violated the constitution when they violated the rights of fellow Americans. Apparently the memo merely outlines their method and mentions a few of the culprits. |
| Posted by: airandee 2018-02-02 06:24 |
| #7 Except the FBI reports to the president. Any "crisis* would be their refusal to obey the law and/or orders. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-02-02 06:20 |
| #6 "Racism", "Male chauvinism", and now "Constitutional Crisis"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-02-02 05:53 |
| #5 "Unfortunately, there was no specific intelligence or indications of an imminent attack on that -- U.S. facilities in Benghazi," Panetta said. "And frankly without an adequate warning, there was not enough time given the speed of the attack for armed military assets to respond." You did not think a hand grenade at the earlier consulate was "no warning"? |
| Posted by: newc 2018-02-02 01:30 |
| #4 What do YOU care about the Constitution? Have you ever read it? Send a copy to the skullz |
| Posted by: newc 2018-02-02 01:28 |
| #3 Leon Panetta is a part of the Problem: a Swamp-critter's swamp critter. Remember in Obama's first term? He was brought in to shut down all of the leaks that plagued the Bush Administration. As Clinton's old consiglierie and an Obama (Soros faction) appointee he could tell all the swamp critters that 'Party Time' was over: "Shut Up! Or no more jobs in the Beltway!" |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-02-02 01:17 |
| #2 "Crisis"....says Former Klingon director and longtime Clinton surrogate. Crisis? Crisis? Here's an actual fok'n "Crisis" and how YOU handled it. "Unfortunately, there was no specific intelligence or indications of an imminent attack on that -- U.S. facilities in Benghazi," Panetta said. "And frankly without an adequate warning, there was not enough time given the speed of the attack for armed military assets to respond." Link to CNN article |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-02 01:03 |
| #1 The Constitution was here loooong before the FBI. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-02-02 00:56 |