Buzzfeed is pretty reliable, eh?
Never been done. No precedent. Would require an "INDEPENDENT PROSECUTOR" (special counsel) and ultimately a SC decision, which is 5-4 minimum Trump.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...ent-prosecutor
Or maybe a FISA grand jury would do the trick.
And William Yeomans, a fellow in Law and Government at American University Law School, noted the OLC memos are the view of the executive branch: "The OLC makes law for the executive branch; their opinions are not binding anywhere else; the courts are not bound by OLC opinions; this issue has never been addressed by a federal court."
Yeomans, a 26-year veteran at the Department of Justice, added: "The question of whether criminal indictment can precede impeachment has never been addressed by a court -- it's an open question."
How many tweets can you find on the same subject? Ready go!
On Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, normally third in the line of succession, I can report as fact that sources say that Ryan has been legally intercepted, and is on tape, admitting that he knew Russian money was being laundered into the Republican party. Without co-operation pending resignation Ryan may find himself swept up into a RICO prosecution involving the apparatus of the Republican party who accepted laundered Russian money.
This report is a clarification of what I have previously said I had heard on Twitter; namely that Ryan himself was taped at the Republican convention talking to Sergei Kislyak accepting Russian money into the campaign. Following the uncons utional dismissal of patriot FBI Director Comey by Sessions and Trump, sources have become more forthcoming. It was, they say, Reince Priebus who was taped talking to Sergei Kislyak and other Russians at the convention, agreeing to accept laundered or disgused Russian contributions, and Speaker Ryan is on a later intercept admitting that he knew of this plot, which places him at risk of a large number of criminal charges. A RICO case is being examined against the GOP itself, sources say.
Her twitter feed is absolute comedy gold
Exclusive: Sources close to the intelligence community report that Director Comey’s FBI computer was illegally accessed immediately after he was dismissed from his post. They further report that ‘removable media’ was used in the commission of this crime. ‘Removable media’ is a category describing physical devices that can be placed into a computer, either to download information or to upload it, such as a memory card, a USB stick, a removable hard drive, a thumb drive or similar items.
Sources further report that a person or persons allied to Donald Trump passed data accessed from Director Comey’s computer to Russian diplomats. It is not known when or how this took place. A piece of removable media containing all the data in question has been recovered from hostile actors, sources say, and is now in the possession of the Justice Department.
Director Comey is said to have known in advance that Mr. Trump would dismiss him. He took careful steps, these sources say, to leave not only a paper trail as we have seen in the story of the ‘Comey Memo’ but also a digital one. Director Comey’s own primary work computer, and other computers in and around his former office, were fitted with sophisticated intelligence community software allowing the Justice Department to see precisely how and when they were attacked.
comey fired
The official Foreign Ministry of Russia’s Twitter account posted a tweet showing Foreign Minister Lavarov laughing with Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State who has won the Order of Friendship of Vladimir Putin, over Director Comey’s firing, on the day Donald Trump hosted the Russians in the White House and verbally gave them top-secret allied intelligence, later published by the Russian news agency Tass.
White House sources say Trump has already discussed his resignation more than once. Perhaps when he discovers that the justice and intelligence communities are well aware he breached Director Comey’s computer and handed FBI data to Russia, he may decide to spare the nation further trauma and resign.
If he becomes President, Mike Pence will be unable to pardon Donald Trump for any crimes at the state level.
More on this story as we receive it.
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We need a guy like Trump just like we needed Edgar J. Hoover.
This country needs a good shot to the jaw to change.
We will probably never see a head of the FBI like Hoover again because of his rampant abuse of power. Hopefully we will never see a president like Trump again... An obsessive compulsive, lying, impulsive, egomaniac, so oblivious to how this country and the world works he wanders off into all kinds of problems... But the press...whaaa... The press just took its role as the 4 th branch of government and body slammed the Republicans.
That being said I don't think he colluded with the Russians. His staff... we will see.
What I do find amusing is Trump was worried about intelligence leaks so he skipped the middle man and just blabbered to directly to the Russians. It looks like he was attempting to brag and blew it. Now of course the WH will fall back on the "he was unaware..." Which is totally understandable. So we have a guy so ill prepared and clueless he can't even really intentionally break any law.
Pence complicit
The NYT could have shortened that down to a couple sentences.
Flynn had to retroactively file as a foreign agent for the lobbying he did for Turkey, which was no different than the Podesta group retroactively filing as foreign agents for lobbying on the behalf of Ukraine. Flynn was also cleared by the FBI after they reviwed his calls to the Russian ambassador and said no wrong doing.
Is the FISA court going to convene a grand jury and indict Pence?
g Jaffy cut the quote short and he had more characters to use
Some members of Congress, in private conversations, have even used the word “treason” to describe Flynn’s intervention, though experts doubt that his actions qualify.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/poli...#storylink=cpy
djohn2oo8 do you have me on ignore or are you just too embarrassed to reply to me today?
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