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Today
on TruNews we address the communist conspiracy to disarm Americans,
set fourth by gun grabbing, baby killing, blackface wearing Virginia
Governor Ralph Northam.
We also discuss Turkey’s threat to seize
Incirlik Air Base, and President Trump’s flirtation at a third
term. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart, Edward Szall.
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DEMOCRATS
MAKE A PLAY FOR MUELLER’S SECRET GRAND JURY DOCUMENTS
Federal
Law Permanently Seals Those Documents When No Charges Are Filed, But
The Impeachment-Obsessed Lawmakers Just Don’t Care.
16
December, 2019
Attorneys
representing the House Democrats have told a federal appeals court
that even though federal law seals the secret grand jury materials in
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump,
those documents are necessary to their effort to remove the president
from office.
The
Justice Department has repeatedly resisted the impeachment-obsessed
lawmakers’ push to get their hands on those documents. This despite
drafting articles of impeachment that are narrowly confined to the
president’s actions related to his July phone call with Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky.
But
lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee wrote to the D.C. Circuit
Court of Appeals:
“The
Department of Justice takes extraordinary positions in this case. It
does so to avoid disclosing grand jury material needed for the
House’s impeachment of President Turmp and the Senate’s trail to
remove him from office.”
Although
it’s not addressed in the current articles of impeachment, House
Democrats have long argued that the president’s alleged obstruction
of the Mueller investigation is critical to their impeachment
efforts. This new filing would seem to suggest they’re coming back
around to that same argument.
The
Justice Department is appealing a decision by a district court judge
that said redacted materials from the Mueller probe should be
provided to Congress—in violation of the law. The new filing
suggests Democrats may be willing to take the unprecedented step of
creating additional articles of impeachment, even while the president
is under Senate trial, if they believe they have evidence of
wrongdoing in the Mueller files.
The
full House could vote on those original articles of impeachment as
early as Wednesday. Leading up to that vote, Democrats released a
658-page report detailing their allegations against the president—a
document that uses words like “scheming” and “pernicious” to
describe what they call the president’s “patter of misconduct”
and “criminal behavior.”
Click
here to see the entire report: https://tinyurl.com/s6j56ca
Sunday,
however, was not a good day for House Democrats. Rep. Devin Nunes
(R-Calif.), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence
Committee, blasted the panel’s chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Calif.) in a letter that was nothing but pure fire. The three-page
letter opens:
“As
you are aware, on December 9, 2019, U.S. Department of Justice
Inspector General Michael Horowitz published the results of his
investigation of the FISA warrant and renewals obtained by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice to spy
on Trump campaign associate Carter Page. The IG’s findings of
pervasive, major abuses by the FBI dramatically contradict the
assertions of your memo released February 24, 2018, in which you
claimed ‘FBI and DOJ officials did not “abuse” the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act process, omit material information, or
subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign.’
“After
publishing false conclusions of such enormity on a topic directly
within this committee’s oversight responsibilities, it is clear you
are in need of rehabilitation, and I hope this letter will serve as
the first step in that vital process.”
Nunes’
letter goes on to highlight several of the false claims made in
Schiff’s February 2018 memo. He also addressed the press release
sent out by Schiff’s office following the release of the Horowitz
Report:
“I
applaud you for acknowledging that the report identified ‘issues
and errors’ and ‘potential misconduct’ connected to the FISA
warrant. This acknowledgment, though dramatically downplaying the
scale of the abuse the IG uncovered, could be a valuable first step—a
baby step, but a step nonetheless—in your rehabilitation.
Nevertheless, in your statement you expressed full faith in FBI
Director Christopher Wray’s promise to address the problem;
demanded that the implementation of reforms be confined to ‘career
officials, away from the political arena,’ and denounced Attorney
General Bill Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham for expressing
concerns about these matters.
“This
makes it clear your rehabilitation will be a long, arduous process.
As previously noted, this committee is responsible for overseeing the
Intelligence Community and exposing abuses. Yet when the IG
identified gross abuses in our jurisdiction, you expressed full faith
in the agencies we’re supposed to be vigilantly monitoring, and you
rejected any oversight whatsoever of their supposed clean-up efforts.
If agencies with a documents, severe abuse problem should be trusted
to police themselves, then it’s fair to ask why this committee even
exists and what we’re supposed to be doing, if anything, aside from
being exploited by you as a launching pad to impeach the president
for issues that have no intelligence component at all.
“As
part of your rehabilitation, it’s crucial that you admit you have a
problem—you are hijacking the Intelligence Committee for political
purposes while excusing and covering up intelligence agency abuses.
The next step will be to convene a hearing with IG Horowitz, as the
Senate Judiciary Committee has done and the Senate Homeland Security
Committee will do next week.
“I
understand taking action on this issue will be difficult for you, as
it will be an implicit acknowledgment that you were wrong to deny
these abuses and that you were complicit in the violation of an
American’s civil liberties. I also understand such an
acknowledgement is made even more difficult by the fact that you’ve
already been discredited by your years-long false claim that the
Trump campaign colluded with Russia to hack the 2016 presidential
election.
“Nevertheless,
I refuse to believe you are beyond redemption. I invite you to work
closely with me on your rehabilitation program, and look forward to
your scheduling a committee hearing with IG Horowitz at the nearest
opportunity.”
That
followed a not-so-good interview Schiff had with “FOX News Sunday”
host Chris Wallace about his February 2018 memo. Here’s how the
Intelligence Committee chairman tried to distance himself from his
own report:
“I’m
certainly willing to admit that the Inspector General found serious
abuses of FISA that I was unaware of. Had I known of them, Chris,
yes, I would have called out the FBI at the same time. But I think
it’s only fair to judge what we knew at the time, not what would be
revealed two years later. But yes, there were very serious abuses of
the FISA process, they need to be corrected, we need to make sure
they never happen again.”
Curiously
absent from the conversation, however, is the fact that Schiff’s
memo was a rebuttal to a report crafted by Nunes and the Republicans,
who controlled the Intelligence Committee at the time, that detailed
specific abuses of the FBI’s FISA warrant application process. The
Nunes and Republican report was vindicated by the Horowitz Report.
President
Trump didn’t miss this important point, however, tweeting out:
“Schiff’s
correcting the record memo has turned out to be totally wrong (based
on the I.G. Report)! A very big lie. Maria Bartiromo and Devin Nunes
has [sic] turned out to be completely right. Congratulations to
Devin. The Fake News Media should apologize to all!”
Meanwhile,
with a new poll suggesting only 42 percent of Americans now support
impeachment—down 10 points in about a month—Schiff and Judiciary
Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler are insisting their impeachment push
is not a failure. That’s because they claim no Democrats are paying
attention to the polls.
It
also was a rough weekend for former FBI Director James Comey, who is
now admitting he was wrong for defending the bureau’s FISA warrant
application process. He took responsibility for “real sloppiness”
within the FBI, but he refused to own up to his role in signing off
on “three of the four” FISA applications to spy on Carter Page.
The
president also taunted Comey via Twitter, asking for an apology. In
the meantime, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham says
he’s going to invite the president’s personal attorney, former
New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to spill the beans on what he
found out about the Bidens during a recent trip to Ukraine—after
the Senate impeachment trial.
