Funny, just had the same thought. The Intel people are not the ones that you want to make enemies of, they know where all of the bodies are buried, your online shopping history, who your mistress is, that whole fascination with midgets that your local congregation might find embarrassing (@sniffit)…
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A reminder - the previous chief federal ethics adviser had to resign 2 years ago after whispering the word ‘divest’ within 100 miles of Trump. Nobody has heard a squeak out of or even knows the name of his replacement (appointed by trump)…
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The CIA’s general counsel made a criminal referral — or at least, she thought she did — of a whistleblower’s complaint concerning President Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukraine’s president.
I think the correct way to put this would be – at least she now says that she thinks she did.
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So - just to be clear / painfully redundant …
Courtney Simmons Elwood, the CIA’s top lawyer made a phone call to the responsible authorities - for the purpose of making a criminal referral - on August 14, 2019
John Eisenberg, the top legal adviser to the National Security Council
John Demers, chief of the Justice Department’s National Security Division
were reportedly on the call
Elwood (CIA’s top lawyer) and Eisenberg (top legal adviser to the National Security Council)
told Demers on that call that “the allegations merited examination by the DOJ,”
Attorney General Bill Barr was made aware of the conversation in the days that followed
and yet … DOJ simply decided since there was no campaign finance violation and that no further action was warranted
Wow … there was no violation of parking ordinances or public consumption of alcohol laws - so thi si clean as a whistle … just sweep it away … wonder if they really figured that this was just going to disappear in the mist ?
… and it wasn’t a formal complaint because it wasn’t written? geez - if it was written, could it have been ignored if it was single spaced and not double spaced?
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“The CIA’s general counsel made a criminal referral — or at least, she thought she did”
So did Mueller…
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What would be the point? If the OLC memo doesn’t apply, it would still be up to DOJ to bring charges, which Barr sure as fuck ain’t going to do.
Hell, Congress referred Barr himself to DOJ in the summer over Contempt. DOJ declined to prosecute. There’s literally nothing else that Congress has the authority to do about it.
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William Barr saw the referral, laughed his ass off then threw it away. Oh well.
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Attorney General Bill Barr was made aware of the conversation in the days that followed, NBC News reported.
“Get another 4 drawer file cabinet and add it to the articles of impeachment file!”
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If it isn’t in the lines, it isn’t in the script.
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Well, depends if she used official CIA letterhead, appropriate spacing, formatting and font according to any regulations they have…
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I didn’t catch that it had posted before I finished. See post now for why.
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It appears the first impeachment process is to remove AG Barr.
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This is the biggest horror yet unmasked, IMHO. The intelligence community does not have the power to cause a Party of Treason member to be held to account for anything. What is the point of having the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc? There has been an overthrow of the rule of law in the US, and everyone’s sitting around acting like investigations by the House matter. Who’s going to enforce findings by the House? There is no Dept of Justice as we know it right fucking now, folks.
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This sort of tracks with the whole “We’re not going to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry until the house votes to make it official”
Delay…
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I think that stuff with indictments is heating up.
DOJ is going to identify every potential whistleblower, anyone who has even thought of speaking with Congress or a reporter, and indict them.
Other than that, have to wait until Barr is gone before even broaching the subject.
Right now, the call about Barr acting lawlessly is going up, Pelosi mentioned it the other day, if I recall correctly.
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Yep! A serious mistake to piss off the CIA’s top talent, for sure.
But then, who ever said trump or his team were smart?
What, me worry? …to paraphrase Alfred E. Neuman.
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Sorry, but we ignored your 911 call because you didn’t say “please” before “help me”!
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No, no, no! We ignored your 9/11 call about a possible crime in progress because it wasn’t written down, therefore we had no basis to investigate.
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Just stable geniuses…
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Yet more obstruction of justice. Barr and anyone else protecting Trump from justice need to be impeached, and prosecuted by the next administration.
Btw, the president’s pardon power is qualified when under impeachment. Does that mean that he can’t pardon when he has been impeached, is being impeached, or is being investigated under an impeachment inquiry? How does that work?
…Ok, I quickly researched this exception, and it appears to mean that the president can’t undo an impeachment via pardon, not that a president being impeached or even having been impeached (but not removed) can’t pardon. Which is total bullshit, but so is much of the original constitution, like having states, a senate, electoral college, 3/5’s, rich white male suffrage, etc.
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