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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs The WH Counsel Close To Obstruction Of Justice? Dems On Judiciary Committee Send A Warning.
As soon as I read this in the NYT, memories of Watergate came rushing back.
But a senior White House official said that Donald F. McGahn II, the presidents chief counsel, was working to secure access to what Mr. McGahn believed to be an order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorizing some form of surveillance related to Mr. Trump and his associates.
Any request for information from a top White House official about a continuing investigation would be a stunning departure from protocols intended to insulate the F.B.I. from political pressure. It would be even more surprising for the White House to seek information about a case directly involving the president or his advisers, as does the case involving the Russia contacts.
Many of the people involved with one of the presidencys worst scandals were prosecuted for obstruction of justice. The idea that the White House counsel is now looking into a possible FISA court warrant against his client is pretty freaken crazy. Im not even a lawyer and it looks like interference to me.
The saying has been that the cover-up is worse than the crime, but this crime of colluding with a hostile nation is so bad that we can expect all kinds of crimes by insiders trying to cover it up, and all kinds of Republican cowardice as they do everything they can to block investigations.
Now the House Judiciary Democrats want to know what the hell is going on?!
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/6/1640612/-White-House-Council-And-Obstruction-Of-Justice-Dems-On-Judiciary-Committee-Send-A-Warning
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Is The WH Counsel Close To Obstruction Of Justice? Dems On Judiciary Committee Send A Warning. (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Mar 2017
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randome
(34,845 posts)1. Unfortunately, not following protocol is not illegal. We're not quite there yet but we will be.
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Mme. Defarge
(8,058 posts)2. Excerpt from a letter from House Judiciary Dems to
WH Council Donald F. McGahn II
wiggs
(7,820 posts)3. Question: I think originally the Patriot Act included wording that if you were under a FISA warrant
or under investigation...you couldn't tell anyone or report it? Is that still a thing?