Discussion: Treasury Official Arrested For Leaks Related To Manafort Probe

Lock. Her. Up. …also any rogue political player she transmitted the data to…

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So is she a political appointee or a civil servant?

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The real story continues to be how amazingly leak-proof this entire investigation has been. 99% of what we know has come from chatty interviewees.

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Like clockwork…shiny object of the day…who knows what the coming weeks will bring…

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Donald Trump will have nothing to say about this, since she’s innocent until proven guilty.

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There somehow must be a Hildebeast tie-in to this!

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But what does she look like? That’s the real question. Did she bring “glamour” to the job, like Nikki Haley?

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+1 Funny

Even in the service of news, SARs really aren’t things you want leaking.

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I’d bet that this was referred to Manhattan by OSC office …

If this leak wasn’t Hillary’s fault then it had to be Jimmy Carter. Once we finishing with the 5th investigation of Benghazi we need to reopen Whitewater and make sure Ken Starr and Brett Kavanaugh didn’t miss anything.

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OK, and who would have benefited from the leaks? Is she permanent staff or an appointee? All of the significant content in this article is contained in the title.

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Don’t forget, Rosenstein was part of that crew, too.

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From WaPo:

Geoffrey S. Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Edwards “betrayed her position of trust by repeatedly disclosing highly sensitive information.”

Isn’t that sweet. Trump’s hand-picked U.S. Attorney.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senior-treasury-employee-charged-with-leaking-documents-related-to-russia-probe/2018/10/17/74f67faa-d226-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html?utm_term=.a0a10f2ab7f0

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A buzzfeed story about Manfort SARS said that Lindsey G & Sen. Whitehouse had asked for and received dozens of Manafort SARS. Hard to figure out what’s going on here.

While Manafort’s relationship with Yohai has figured in speculation in recent months about whether Mueller is interested in their business dealings, their work together has yet to appear in any of Mueller’s public filings.

But the interest has been explicit in Congress. As part of their investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Whitehouse, the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, sent a letter in 2017 to FinCEN requesting access to any suspicious activity reports submitted by banks on Manafort, Yohai, and their real estate holding companies, along with additional names and businesses.

FinCEN searched its database and pulled dozens of suspicious activity reports on Manafort and his businesses as well as several on Yohai and his businesses. The existence of those reports has not been previously reported and provides new insight into the range of information available to investigators interested in Manafort and Yohai’s business dealings.

Good. As much as I want information about the investigation and what the criminals involved have done and are doing, I prefer that information to come out of the Mueller investigation first and foremost. When he submits his report to Rosentstein, then we can pressure our newly elected Democratic House majority to subpeona the report and make all relevant parts of it public. Her leaking doesn’t appear to have any whistleblower protections or to have been done in the name of exposing gov’t corruption, it looks like it was done purely for journalistic access, why she chose to do that, who knows?

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If you asked 45 about this he would probably respond with : Jarred ? what Jarred ? you know it’s a very common name. You would have to personally prove to me that the fake media is not reffering to some Jarred guy who associates or has anything to do with me.

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Commensurate with the president’s deep concern for the presumption of innocence, I would like to say “Lock him up! Lock him up!”

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Sounds like Reporter 1 was phishing for trump admin job…