Bill Barr Assembles Team to Investigate Counterintel Probe Into Trump Campaign

Notre Dame Joe said:
No one cares when the FBI/cops railroad the criminal element. No it's not right but they get away with it on the grounds they use that power against the true bad guys.  But when they try their high pressure stuff on the duly elected President's circle people take notice.  Comey succeeded in flipping the base of support for law enforcement to become pissed off at the FBI.  If anything good comes out this, conservatives will stop saying "I trust the police."
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Wait a minute. Comey turned people against the FBI?

 
And Hitler said to Hermann Goring........                                                                           (Goring was Hitler's right hand man & enforcer and creator of the Gestapo)

https://apnews.com/9e926bfccb5947d5a5f8eb260cb0a7e6

President Donald Trump on Thursday granted Attorney General William Barr new powers to review and potentially release classified information related to the origins of the Russia investigation, a move aimed at accelerating Barr’s inquiry into whether U.S. officials improperly surveilled Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Trump directed the intelligence community to “quickly and fully cooperate” with Barr’s probe. The directive marked an escalation in Trump’s efforts to “investigate the investigators,” as he continues to try to undermine the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe amid mounting Democratic calls for impeachment proceedings.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that Trump is delegating to Barr the “full and complete authority” to declassify documents relating to the probe, which would ease his efforts to review the sensitive intelligence underpinnings of the investigation. Such an action could create fresh tensions within the FBI and other intelligence agencies, which have historically resisted such demands
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RedDenver said:
Doesn't the Senate have authority over the powers granted to cabinet members?
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Good question. 

The Senate offers "advice and consent" to the President by a majority vote on the appointments of federal judges, ambassadors, and Cabinet positions. Treaties with other nations entered into by the President must be approved by a two-thirds vote by the Senate.

http://www.ushistory.org/gov/6a.asp

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45442.pdf

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This could very quickly become a deadly game they're playing. If assests inside Russia are revealed you think that Putin is just going to ask them to leave nicely?

 
ZRod said:
This could very quickly become a deadly game they're playing. If assests inside Russia are revealed you think that Putin is just going to ask them to leave nicely?
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seems he is willing to expose assets and but them at risk in order to save his own skin.  This is political hackmanship, revenge at its worse. 

 
ZRod said:
This could very quickly become a deadly game they're playing. If assests inside Russia are revealed you think that Putin is just going to ask them to leave nicely?
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I don't see how the intelligence community including hopefully Haspel and Dan Coats go apes#!t on Barr and refuse his requests. They'd probably have to appeal to Trump about how dangerous it is to reveal sources publicly and if it didn't work I'd prefer they resign rather than complying.

Haspel reports directly to Coats and Coats as DNI directly to Trump. Barr has no actual authority over either of them other than this dumba#$ order from Trump.

 
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Danny Bateman said:
I don't see how the intelligence community including hopefully Haspel and Dan Coats go apes#!t on Barr and refuse his requests. They'd probably have to appeal to Trump about how dangerous it is to reveal sources publicly and if it didn't work I'd prefer they resign rather than complying.

Haspel reports directly to Coats and Coats as DNI directly to Trump. Barr has no actual authority over either of them other than this dumba#$ order from Trump.
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Intelligence is done to better advise POTUS, something forgotten by Obama holdovers.  the President decides what is and isn't classified and if the officials don't like it they can resign and take it to CNN.

 
Notre Dame Joe said:
Intelligence is done to better advise POTUS, something forgotten by Obama holdovers.  the President decides what is and isn't classified and if the officials don't like it they can resign and take it to CNN. 
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I'm not going to line up and blindly pledge allegiance to an unstable moron who doesn't understand the implications of revealing sources, and they shouldn't either. But yeah, if he orders them to do something that is going to wreck our ability to gether intel and possibly get people killed, they should resign. I'm with you there.

 
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