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triron

(22,001 posts)
Thu Sep 26, 2019, 07:58 PM Sep 2019

Schiff: WH "hijacked House Russia probe transcripts"

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/26/schiff-white-house-hijack-russia-transcript-1514834

"But Schiff told his committee on Sept. 17 that ODNI's review dragged on for months longer than expected before grinding to a halt in March, when intelligence officials said they intended to share the transcripts with the White House. Intelligence officials, Schiff said, had asked permission to allow the White House to review the transcripts to screen out material that may be subject to executive privilege.

"The White House has, in a sense, hijacked what should have been an uncontroversial straightforward review of congressional transcripts to identify and redact any classified information, and attempted to expand it into an unsolicited after-the-fact review for information purportedly protected by executive privilege,” Schiff said. "
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Schiff: WH "hijacked House Russia probe transcripts" (Original Post) triron Sep 2019 OP
this is corruption on a massive scale spanone Sep 2019 #1
Add that to the obstruction too. ffr Sep 2019 #2
he and his mobster crew MUST GO, the nation is being ripped apart at every level, both Celerity Sep 2019 #3

Celerity

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3. he and his mobster crew MUST GO, the nation is being ripped apart at every level, both
Thu Sep 26, 2019, 08:10 PM
Sep 2019

formal and informal. We are being torn asunder at a base societal level, now more poisoned with hyper-division than anything seen in the post-WW2 period (yes including the Viet Nam war era which was mostly about the draft as 90% plus of all protests stopped when the draft was ended), and the rule of law is being profoundly slagged off, right on down to the very concepts of truth and accountability being wilfully eviscerated.

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