WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday blocked the release of a classified memo written by congressional Democrats to rebut a Republican document that he allowed to be made public last week that claimed FBI and Justice Department bias against him in the federal probe of Russia and the 2016 U.S. election.
The Republican president’s decision -- the latest controversy relating to an investigation that has hung over his year in office -- infuriated Democrats. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said, “Millions of Americans are asking one simple question: what is he hiding?”
White House Counsel Don McGahn said the Justice Department had identified portions of the 10-page memo written by Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee that “would create especially significant concerns for the national security and law enforcement interests” of the country.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-democrats/trump-blocks-release-of-russia-memo-drafted-by-democrats-idUSKBN1FT2NP
It was never their intention to allow for a fair, even-sided analysis of this stuff. Trump was caught on video and audio at the State of the Union telling a GOP rep that he would "100%" approve the release of the Nunes memo - and that was before he had even fucking seen it:
And release it he did, with lightning like speed. In doing so, he completely turned a deaf ear to the national security objections of the DOJ leadership as well as those of his own FBI director Christopher Wray, who issued a public statement stating that there were "grave concerns" over the accuracy of the material being presented in the memo.
But now, with the Dem rebuttal memo, Trump and his accomplices in the GOP are employing the stalling tactic of feigned concern over national security to block the minority party from having their views equally presented to the public.
So if you are following along here, Trump expeditiously approves release of the Nunes memo which supposedly contained evidence that there is some kind of "secret society" and/or "deep state" within the ranks of the DOJ and the FBI that are conspiring against Donald Trump. They released the Nunes memo without having allowed either the DOJ or the FBI to have any input to the material in the memo. and over the national security objections of both organizations.
But now, all of a sudden, they have newfound respect for the views of the FBI and DOJ as it relates to the minority party rebuttal memo. Imagine that.
It has become crystalline clear at this point that Trump and a certain faction of conservatives in the Republican party are genuinely untrustworthy -- untrustworthy as in their loyalty to this nation and constitutional law and order needs to be seriously questioned. Their actions indicate a perceptible desperateness to keep some apparently very awful truths hidden from the American people.
This is how one-party, authoritarian (like Trump's mentor Putin has with his hand-picked Kremlin) governments operate dear readers.
The sooner that Robert Mueller indicts this sonofabitch for obstruction of justice (or perhaps even worse crimes) the sooner that this country can get on with the unpleasant, but vital business of atoning for the horrid judgement and utter foolishness of the people who enabled this deeply, hopelessly corrupt miscreant to come to power in the first place, and who continue to endorse and promote him.
----TFG
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