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Trump Grants Barr Authority to Declassify Any 2016 Campaign Surveillance Documents
That puckering sound you heard Thursday night was from many nervous politicos, bureaucrats, and lobbyists in the Beltway. President Trump has just given Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of his 2016 campaign. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders released the following statement:
Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election. The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information. Today’s action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions.
For some reason, I’m thinking the media and Congressional Democrats won’t be terribly eager for these documents to be released.
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After the debacle that was the Mueller investigation, they better get something out of this.
It will be interesting to observe how the MSM plays this.
Do they stay with whatever cockamamie narrative de jour the (D)’s go with (ie: Adam Schiff = “While Trump stonewalls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice, Trump and Barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies. The coverup has entered a new and dangerous phase. This is un-American.”) or does the MSM finally report the straight news as if they were just discovering the Obama DOJ/FBI/IC malfeasance for the first time and let the chips fall where they may.
I’m betting on the cockamamie (D) narrative route …. straight news is so last decade, absurd (D) narratives is what everyone is wearing now.
He already is in a way.