White House rejects request for Trump, Putin communications

[struggle4progress]

by ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, March 22nd 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday rejected a Democratic request for information on private conversations between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, including an interview with an interpreter who sat in on their one-on-one meeting in Helsinki last summer ...

In a letter earlier this month, the House intelligence, foreign affairs and oversight committees asked for the substance of Trump and Putin's conversations in person and by phone. They also asked for any documents related to the conversations, information on whether the talks had any impact on U.S. foreign policy, and information on whether Trump tried to conceal any evidence of them.

On Thursday, White House counsel Pat Cipollone sent a letter to the Democratic chairmen of the three committees rebuffing all those requests.

"The president must be free to engage in discussions with foreign leaders without fear that those communications will be disclosed and used as fodder for partisan political purposes," Cipollone wrote, adding, "No foreign leader would engage in private conversations with the president, or the president's senior advisors, if such conversations were subject to public disclosure (or disclosure to committees of Congress)" ...

https://mynbc15.com/news/nation-world/white-house-rejects-request-for-trump-putin-communications-03-22-2019

[thegoose]

1. This is treason

Conspiracy to keep secrets with an enemy.

[bearsfootball516]

2. Treason requires the two countries to be at war.

[thegoose]

3. We aren't?

Pootie's sure as shit at war with us and Dump's at war with reality.

[ck4829]

4. +1 The terms of war and conflict have changed entirely as of the 21st century

[bearsfootball516]

5. Not by a legal basis, nope.

[ck4829]

7. Honestly, we should just scrap the whole concept of "treason"

It really can't be committed in today's world, "treason" is an atavistic throwback from a pre-connected, pre-globalization society.

[spanone]

6. So even the co-equal branches of government don't know our foreign policy...how republican